Star Micronics 8 Series manual Proportional spacing offset, Escp, Escq

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When you combineproportionalspacingwith automaticjustificationyou can get text that lookslike that in professionallytypesetbooks.

Anote, though: the proportionalspacing command can not change a monospaced-pitchfontintoaproportionallyspacedone.Youshouldalways have a proportionallyspacedfont selectedwhen you send this command.

To enableproportionalprinting,send this command:

<ESC>P

And to turn off proportionalprinting,send this command:

<ESC>Q

Whatif youneedto printnumbersin columnswithinproportionallyspaced text?No problem:just turn off proportionalspacingfor yournumbersand set.thespace-widthto 15.

Proportional spacing offset

If you are printingwith proportionalspacingyou can actuallycontrolthe oflset, or amountof space inserted betweencharacters.For instance,you might wantto justify a line of print yourself.

With the Spacing Offset command you can change the distance each characteradvancesin incrementsof 1/120thinch.The printercancelsthis commandwhen it receivesa carriagereturn, <ESC> X or anotheroffset command.That meansthis commandis effectivejust one line at a time.

To adjustthe offset,send this command:

<ESC><DC1>n

For n you enter a figurethat sets the numberof l/120-inch incrementsby which spacingis to change.To increasecharacterspacing,for n you just enterthenumberof increments,fromOto 63.To showyouwantto decrease characterspacing, you add 64 to the number of incrementsyou want to subtract.

For example,the command<ESC> <DC1> 67 will decrease the space betweencharactersby 3/120inch,because3 plus 64 equals67.

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