Epson FX-286 - Impact Printer, User Manual

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an underline that leaves small gaps in the line as demonstrated in the
printout below.
T h i s i s u n d e r l i n e c h a r a c t e r .
If your software prints this type of underline, it is using the FX-286’s
underline character (ASCII 95), not the underline mode. Because the
underline character is only five dots wide, it does not fill the spaces
between characters.
Proportional mode
In pica draft mode on the FX-286, each character is given the same
amount of space, whether it is a narrow letter like
i
or a wide letter like
w. In the proportional mode, however, the space allowed for each
letter is proportional to its size.
The proportional mode, which is available only in Epson mode
draft pica, also prints all letters in emphasized. You can see the
difference between standard and proportional modes if you enter and
run the following program.
10 LPRINT CHR$(27)"p1"
20 LPRINT "Proportional mode is on."
30
LPRINT CHR$(27)"p0";
40
LPRINT "Proportional mode is off."
P r o p o r t i o n a l m o d e i s o n
P r o p o r t i o n a l m o d e i s o f f
Notice that you must use a lowercase p for this mode. The next
section describes Master Select, which includes another method for
turning proportional on and off.
Master Select
The FX-286 has a special Epson mode ESCape code called Master
Select that allows you to choose any possible combination of seven
different modes: pica, elite, proportional, condensed, emphasized,
double-strike, double-width, italic, and underline. The format of the
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