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on, or you can set margin values equal to the default values. This means that you should set a left margin of 0 and right margin of 136 in pica pitch.

If you change the pitch of your printing after you set your margins, the margins will not change. They stay at the same place on the page. So if you set the margins to give you 65 col- umns of printing when you are using pica type, then you change to elite type you will have room for more than 65 columns of elite printing between the margins.

HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL TABS

Suppose you need to move across the page to a certain posi- tion several times in a document. It’s not much fun to type in space after space. And you don’t have to - you can “tab” your way across the page.

Your printer’s tabs are like those on a typewriter, but much more powerful. You have both horizontal and vertical tabs which can be used for both text and graphics - and they’re real- ly handy for indenting paragraphs and making tables.

nHorizontal tabs

Horizontal tabs are set automatically every eight positions. To move the print head to the next tab position, send CHR$(S).

Try this program to see how the default tabs work.

10 ’ Demo of horizontal tabbing

20LPRINT “ONE”;CHR$(9) ; “TWO”;CHR$(9) : “THREE”;CHR$(9) ; “FOUR”

Here’s what you should get-

I	TWO	THREE FOUR
ONE	TWO	THREE FOUR
I

/

Even though the words are different length, they are spaced out evenly by the horizontal tabs.

Now add the following line to your program to set different horizontal tabs:

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Contents USER’S MANUAli Tatement Special Message to the New Owner Table of Contents Chapter Controlling with Basic CHR$Chapter Special Features of the Printer Functions of the Connector Signals Appendix G Serial Interface Specifications TRS-80 BasicSetting UP Your Printer Page Tion and movement for both removing and replacing the cover Page Print head Printer Slide the I/F board into the slot Page Getting to Know Your Printer Page Page Page Selecting and Loading Paper ‘igure 2-4. Raise the paper guide for loading single sheets You can insert a sheet of paper by using the release lever To align paper that is not in straight Sprocket cover You can raise While trrnirrgon the power Self-test DIP switch 2-2 on Efgh!jklmnopqr¶tuvwxyz~ ?lSS&‘ TOF During normal operation Connecting the Printer Page Memo Using Commercial Software Page Ascii Using Your Printer with Word Processors Page Memo Controlling With Basic PR#O ListNEW Lprint Testing RUN ESC W Lprint CHR$27WCHR$l Lprint CHR$27WCHR$49 Lprint CHRS27Wl Memo Printing Text Lprint CHR$27 xl ESC OFF ESC Lprint UndelinedLprint Overlined Boldface on Escso When you run this program you should get this Demonstration Condensed Here’s what you should get from this program OFF Elite mint Summary notes Memo Formatting Text This is what you will get This Line Spacing is SET to Run the program again. Now the results will look like this Here is what your printer will produce Line Number Lprint CHRS12IOI ESCNCHR$n Lprint this is LINE1 Next This is Line Return TWO Three Four ONE This command sets the horizontal tab to every eight columns Next Try thisprogram tosee how this works Lprint CHR$11 First TAB Lprint CHR$llFIFTH TAB CHR$O Lprint 2ND TAB of CHANNEL’ Memo Special Features Printer Lprint CHR$7 ESCVCHR$O Here is what this program will print Lprint CHR$27il Printing direction commands Function Control code Next Lprint Lprint Eighth bit controls Next J 129 LPRINTCHR$27 LPRINTCHR$27= Lprintlprint Double This is Double Sized Printing Next Lprint Lprint CHR$IPage Creating Your OWN Characters Print Matrix Defining Your OWN Characters Usethisgridoronesimilartoittodefineyourown draftcharacters Wrong 128 Assigningavalueofcharacterspace Characterdesignsforthetwographsymbols Page Read MM LPRINTCHR$MM Next M Next N Lprint LPRINTCHR$I Next Lprint Lprint CHR$I NextLprint LPRINTGERMANYCHR$9 Lprintscales Data 1, 9, 2, 31,253,64, 32, 1,128,80 Read MM Lprint CHR$MM Next MMO+ml +m2 105 106