Star Micronics 150 manual Control Codes PcOS Series, Horizontal Motion Control

Control Codes PcOS Series 150 Programmer's Guide

Horizontal Motion

Horizontal Motion Control

There are several commands that can control the horizontal position of characters. Many applications use space control to position fields. However, there is the ability to control character position with horizontal tab stops. This is done by using the horizontal tab [HT] to move to those tab stops.

Function	Horizontal tab
ASCII	[HT]
Hexadecimal	09H
Decimal	<9>
IPCL	&%HT
EPOS	[HT]
Description	This command inserts spaces in the print buffer up to the next tab stop.
	The default tab locations are every 8 spaces.

Function	Back space
ASCII	[BS]
Hexadecimal	08H
Decimal	<8>
IPCL	&%BS
EPOS	[BS]
Description	This command prints the data in the print buffer and shifts the current
	horizontal position by one character width to the left. If the current
	position is at the left margin, the [BS] is ignored.

Function	Set horizontal tab stops
ASCII	[ESC] D <n1> <n2> <n3> ... <ni> 0
Hexadecimal	1BH 44H <n1> <n2> <n3> ... <ni> 00H
Decimal	<27> <68> <n1> <n2> <n3> ... <ni> <0>
IPCL	none
EPOS	[ESC] D <n1> <n2> <n3> ... <ni> 0
Description	This command sets tab stops at the character columns specified by <n>.
	The end of the setting is specified by a <0>. All previously set tabs will be
	cleared by this command. There is no restore-defaults procedure other than
	to respecify the tabs. The power up default is every 8 spaces, i.e., 9, 17, 25,
	etc. Column sizes are in accordance with the current character pitch.
	Setting tabs that are beyond the station width is possible. A [CR] will be
	inserted if the tab is used. Printing will begin at the home position.

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