82143a missing functions - for Angel Martín or anybody interested

[Vincent Weber]

Hi Angel, all,

I was just wondering if one of your amazing roms deals with the following:
The 82143a direct printer is the only printer emulated in i41cx+ on ios and go41cx on Android. Yet it misses a few features that only the 82162a HP-IL printer has. They are not worth the complex emulation of HP-IL, but it could be nice to have these functions for the 82143a as well:
-FMT, that centers or justifies text. I understand the code is directly in the printer firmware, the function in the HP-IL module just triggers an escape sequence. The 82240 IR printer handles this differently, it does not have the code in its firmware, whereas the IR module has this code. So I was wondering if it would be simply possible to extract the FMT code in the IR printing module, retarget it to the 82143a printer, and put it in one of your roms ? Also, the PANAME ROM has a more powerful function, dealing with more columns than just 2. Would be nice to extract it as well;
-A parse mode, able to avoid word cutting. I understand that no easy function is provided to activate this mode, you have to use a complex escape sequence to trigger it. Again, the PANAME ROM has functions to do that...
-PMT is able to print a time stamp on top of the program listing, should a TIME module or CX be there;
-Also, the 82240 has an underline mode, that would be nice to have as well on the 82143a.

Any miracle has been / could be done ?

Many thanks and best regards,

Vincent