each line in this mode is printed twice, the speed of your printing is slowed. The code to turn off double-strike is ESCape “H”.

Some users prefer the effect of emphasized, and others prefer double-strike. You can look at the printout below and decide for your- self.

T h i s i s s t a n d a r d p r i n t i n g .

This is emphasized p r i n t i n g .

T h i s i s d o u b l e - s t r i k e p r i n t i n g .

Double-width mode

Perhaps the most dramatic mode on the FX-286 is double-width. It produces extra-wide characters that are good for titles and headings. For this mode, the dot pattern of each character is double-width and twice as many dots are printed. You can see the difference between pica and double-width pica if you enter and run this program:

10 LPRINT "This is standard printing."

20 LPRINT CHR$(27)"Wl";30 LPRINT "This is double-width."100 LPRINT CHR$(27)"W0"

T h i s i s s t a n d a r d p r i n t i n g .

T h i s i s d o u b l e - w i d t h .

For this mode the letter W and the numeral one together turn the mode on and the letter W and the numeral zero together turn it off. Thus ESCape “W1” turns on double-width and ESCape "W0" turns it

Off.

Those of you who are programmers may be interested in another form of double-width. In this alternate form, called one-line double- width, the printing is the same as that in the example but it is turned on by ASCII 14 and is turned off by a line feed, ASCII 20, or ESCape "W0".

Mode combinations

You can also use control codes to combine modes. For example, you can make a title especially vivid by combining emphasized and double-width. In fact, you can combine many of the print modes on

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