Star Micronics 8 Series manual How to center or justify text, Line spacing, Mode

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Side margins

To set the left marginto a particularcolumnyou send this command:

in whichn is thecolumnnumberfortheleftmargin.(Notethatthecharacter /is a lowercaseL.)

Columnwidthis determinedby thecurrentpitch(forexample1/12inchfor 12-pitch),or is set at 1/10inch for proportionalspacedtext. Oncemargins are set, changingthe pitch docsnot affectmargins.

Same rules apply for the rightmargin:you send this command:

<ESC>Q n

in whichn is the columnnumberfor the rightmargin.

How to center or justify text

If your text processor won’t center or line up text for you, your Star LaserPnntcr8 can do thejob. Yusrifiedtextprintsflushagainstoncor both side marginson both the rightand left sidesof the page.

You turn on the centering or justification of text with the following command:

cESC> a n

For n enter a numberfrom the followingtable:

MODE

leftjustification :

centering1

rightjustification 2

both sidcsjustificd 3

Backspaceand horizontaltabs will only work in left-justificationmode.

Line spacing

EX-800emulationoffers five differentwaysto verticallyspacelines.The default is 6 lines to the inch, but you can change line spacing with the commandsin the followingtable. (In the first four of these commands, rememberthatthe numberfollowingthe <ESC>codeis a realnumber,not the ASCIIsymbolfor O,1,2 or 3.)

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