Epson FX-80, User Manual

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line feed, which means that the subsequent movement of the print
head will be from the left margin to
the
right. To see this in action,
delete line
10
and change line 40 to read:
40
FOR X=1 TO 10: LPRINT CHR$(27)"<"CHR$(124):
NEXT X
When you RUN it, you can watch the print head move to its leftmost
position after it prints each line.
Unidirectional print motion straightens out the slight misalignment
of characters that results from printing bidirectionally in
the
Elite or
Compressed Mode. The difference is subtle, but often it’s such subtle-
ties that make a topnotch graphics display possible.
International Characters
Remember the tilde that you used at the beginning of this chapter to
create the approximately equal sign? Well, that tilde is only one of the
many uncommon characters that are stored in the FX as components
of the nine international character sets.
We mentioned the international character sets in Chapter 1, when
we explained that the factory-set defaults for
the
DIP switches include
the selection of the USA character set. Besides the pound sign (#),
dollar sign ($), and at sign (@), the USA set includes the nine other
symbols shown in Table
6-1;
one or more of these nine may not appear
on your computer’s keyboard.
Table
6-7.
Some special characters
91
Left bracket
92 Back slash
93 Right bracket
94 Caret
t
95
96
Underline
Accent grave
123 Left brace
124 Flat colon
125 Right brace
126 Tilde
But that’s not all. Your FX has the makings of a world correspon-
dent. Packed
in the ROM are nine sets of letters and special characters
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