Printronix P9000 Series manual Vertical Tab Set/Clear Serial Matrix, Tion is ignored

Vertical Tab Set/Clear (Serial Matrix)

	ASCII	Hex	Decimal
P-Series	N/A	N/A	N/A
Serial	ESC B n	1B 42 n	27 66 n

Purpose	Sets vertical tab positions.
Expression	CHR$(27);”B”;CHR$(n);...CHR$(nk);CHR$(0);
where	n1 through nk specify the line number for the vertical tab(s), for a maxiF
	mum of 16 tab positions. Either CHR$(0) or CHR$(128) can be used as the
	sequence terminator.
Comment	The physical position on the paper is the product of •n" and the current line
	spacing. Subsequent line spacing changes do not change the tab position. If
	the value of •n" defines a tab stop that exceeds the forms length, that tab posiF
	tion is ignored.
	In Serial Matrix printer protocol, vertical tab positions are set by control code
	ESC B and executed by control code VT. The tab positions must be in ascendF
	ing order or the sequence will terminate. More information regarding Serial
	Matrix vertical tab setting is provided in the Vertical Format Units chapter.
	If the ESC B command is followed immediately by a sequence terminator, the
	vertical tab positions are cleared.
Example	The following sample program illustrates Vertical Tab Setting.

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