Enhancing Your Printing

Italic printing

You can print italics by sending a software command. You can use italics for special emphasis or as an alternative typeface.

This is Roman printing.

This is italicized Roman printing.

Underlining

The underline mode provides an automatic way of fully underlining any piece of text. This mode underlines spaces, superscripts, and subscripts without a break. Most word processors take advantage of this feature, but some programs use the underline character instead. If this happens, check your program for an underlining option.

Superscripts and subscripts

Superscripts and subscripts can be used for printing footnote numbers and mathematical formulas. The example below shows underlining and subscripts combined in a mathematical formula.

a v e r a g e = &+ RQ + - - - - - - - - - - + an1 n

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