The last word 3.0 reference manual – Atari XL User Manual

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The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual

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making AtariWriter Plus think I had one hooked up, then printing to disk and studying
the output. Note that not all Atari printers support features like italics and boldface. I
trust these drivers work well with the actual equipment.

Some work may be required to coax international characters out of your printer.
However, even if your printer doesn't support them, there are plenty of utilities for
downloading fonts to printers. Just download a font which emulates the Atari
international character set, set up a printer driver, and you're good to go. Being able to
print international characters without fuss was one of the key reasons that LW was
written in the first place. I wanted a word processor which had them visible on the
screen and didn't require special commands in the middle of a document.

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