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increments of l/144 inch. Change line 30 in your program so it is
like this:
3!i!J LPRINT CHR$(27) “3” CHR$(I);
and run the program again. Now the results will look like this:
DELTA HAS VAKIAPLE LINE SPACING
DELTA HAS VAF:IAELE LINE SPACING
DELTA HAS VARIABLE LINE SF’ACING
DELTA HAS VARIABLE LINE SPAClNG
DELTA HAS VAHIAlEiLE LINE SPACING
DELTA tdAS VARIABLE LINE SPACING
DE:LTA HAS VARIABLE LINE SPACING
DELTA HAS VARIABLE LINE SF’ACING
DELTA HAS VARIABLE LINE SF’ACING
The program works just the same as before, but the line spac-
ings are just half what they were. This is because (ESC) “3”
CHR$(n) sets the line spacing to n/144 inch.
Here are all the line spacing commands, including several
“shortcut” commands for commonly used line spacings.
Table 4-l
Line spacing commands
1 Function I Control code I
Set line spacing to n/72 inch
Set line spacing to nl144 inch
Set line wacine to l/8 inch
(ESC) “A” CHR$(n)
(ESC) “3” CHR$(n)
(ESC) “0”
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Set line spacing to 7172 inch
Set line spacing to l/S inch
One-time line feed of n/144 inch
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(ESC) “1"
(ESC) “2”
(ESC) “J” CHR$(n)
Let’s take a look at the last command in the table, which gives
a one-time line feed of n/144 inch. The (ESC) “J” CHR$(n) com-
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