Expanded Mode

Perhaps the most dramatic mode on the LX-80 is expanded. It produces extra-wide characters that are good for titles and headings. For this mode, the dot pattern of each character is expanded and a duplicate set of dots is printed one dot to the right. You can see the difference between pica and expanded pica in Figure 6-3.

Figure 6-3. Expanded and standard characters

You can try expanded yourself by using the code “W1” in the master program. Notice that expanded uses an ESCape code format that is slightly different from the previous ones. You must use the numeral one as well as a capital W to turn on expanded. For this mode the letter and the numeral one together turn on the mode and the letter and the numeral zero together turn it off. Thus ESCape “W1” turns on expanded and ESCape “W0” turns it off.

Those of you who are programmers may be interested in another form of expanded. In this alternate form, called one-line expanded, the printing is the same as that in Figure 6-3, but it is turned on by ASCII 14 and is turned off by a line feed, ASCII 20, or ESCape “MO”.

Mode Combinations

If you have read Chapter 2, by now you’re probably wondering how to combine modes using control codes as you did with the SelecType feature. For example, can a title be made especially vivid by combining expanded and emphasized? The answer is that you can combine nearly all of the print modes on the LX-80. Indeed, your

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