Epson LX-86, User Manual

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In fact, if you need even more than the
132
characters per line
that condensed gives you, you can combine elite and condensed
for a mode we call condensed elite. It is not really another pitch,
because the size of the characters is the same as in the condensed
mode; only the
space
between the characters is reduced. You can
see this mode, which allows 160 characters to fit on a line, if you
replace line
30
in your last program with this line:
30 LPRINT CHR$(l5);
With this addition, the program turns on condensed but doesn’t
turn off elite, giving you the printout below:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]ˆ_`abcdefghi
If your printout is different, you may need a
WIDTH
statement
such as the one below:
5 WIDTH LPRINT 255
The format for your system will probably be different. Consult
your
BASIC
manual.
Near Letter Quality Mode
The examples so far in this chapter are in the draft mode, and
you have already learned how to turn on the NLQ mode with a
panel button, but you can also see the NLQ mode with the
following program:
10
LPRINT CHR$ (27) “x” CHR$ (1)
;
20 FOR X=65 TO 105
30 LPRINT CHR$ (X);
40 NEXT X: LPRINT
Note that you use a lowercase x, not a capital X, in line
10.
Because of the high resolution of the NLQ mode, it prints only in
pica, not in elite or condensed.
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