[Coco] Color Quaver/ .PCL file extension/ Green Mountain

[Dennis Bathory-Kitsz]

At 11:47 PM 11/7/05 -0800, Tony Cappellini wrote:

>Without knowing what the control characters do, how would I convert these 

>files into something useable on the coco?

>Which file(s) is the executable?


The executable is "pencil.lc" for lowercase Model I systems. I don't know
if later versions were ever issued.

There was a special version for typesetting that uses the control
characters, but I doubt it was ever issued. In my chapters of the Custom
TRS-80, which you may also have found online, you'll see commands such as
"@@FT1" and "@@FT3". All these commands are simple toggles. FT1 is font
type 1, FT3 is font type 3. The control codes (not nested) were active
until canceled. The entire Custom TRS-80 book was set on a Model I, run
into a professional typesetting machine which read the control codes and
produced the optical results.

To convert the files, just load them as ASCII and dump the last 3 or 4
characters (which were Electric Pencil's own end-of-file indicator).

Dennis



>Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:25:33 -0500

>From: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <bathory at maltedmedia.com>

>Subject: Re: [Coco] Color Quaver/ .PCL file extension/ Green Mountain

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>At 06:54 AM 11/7/05 -0800, Tony Cappellini wrote:

> >While looking for a version of Color Quaver to download,

> >I've found many of the files at Green Mountain Micro, many of which have

> >the .PCL extension.

> >Can someone tell me about this file format?

>

>Electric Pencil format. Plaintext with a few control characters. Most of

>the GMM ones are just plaintext, but "The Custom TRS-80" was done with a

>full set of formatting (each control character begins with "@@")

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