Printronix P3000 Series manual Horizontal Tab Set, Hex Decimal Series Serial

Horizontal Tab Set

	ASCII	Hex	Decimal
P–Series	N/A	N/A	N/A
Serial	ESC D n	1B 44 n	27 68 n

Purpose	Sets up to 32 horizontal tab positions.
Expression	CHR$(27);”D”;CHR$(n1);...CHR$(n32);CHR$(0);
where	n1 through n32 specify the character column of the tab positions. CHR$(0) is the
	sequence terminator.
Comment	You can set up to 32 different tab positions. The values must be listed in ascending
	order or they are ignored. The physical tab position is the product of “n” and the
	current cell width (1/pitch), excluding double wide. Tabs in excess of 32 or those
	positioned beyond 13.2 inches are also ignored.
	Clear the tab positions by sending the CHR$(27);“D”;CHR$(0) sequence. Power-
	ing the printer on/off initializes the tabs to every eighth character column. Horizon-
	tal tabs are accessed by control code HT.
Example	The following example illustrates horizontal tab setting and accessing.

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