the FX-286;your FX-286printer can print such complicated combinations as double-strike emphasized double-width underlined subscript, although you may never want such a combination. The point is, how- ever, that the FX-286 has the ability to produce almost any combination you can think of; it’s up to you to decide which ones you want to use.

To see emphasized combined with double-width, change two lines in your previous program:

20 LPRINT CHR$(27)"W1"CHR$(27)"E";30 LPRINT "Emphasized double-width"

When you run the program, your printout should match the one below, showing that the two modes combine with no trouble.

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

E m p h a s i z e d d o u b l e - w i d t h

A later section in this chapter explains a special Epson mode ESCape code, Master Select, which allows you to control seven features with one ESCape sequence.

Underline mode

The FX-286also has a mode that will underline characters and spaces. You turn it on with ESCape “-1” and off with ESCape "-0".Note that the underline code is like the double-width code in that it uses a character, in this case the hyphen or minus sign, combined with the numeral one to turn it on and a character combined with the numeral zero to turn it off. You can see it in action with the following program:

NEW

10 LPRINT "This text is not underlined."20 LPRINT CHR$(27)"-1";30 LPRINT "This text is underlined."This text is not underlined.

T h i s t e x t i s u n d e r l i n e d .

As shown in the printout above, the underline mode is continuous, but some word processing and other applications programs produce

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