Star Micronics LC-20 Horizontaltab, Relativehorizontaltab, Absolutehorizontaltab in inches

Horizontaltab

Mode	ASCII	Decimal	Hexadecimal
Both	<H-f>	9	09

Movesthe printpositionto the nexthorizontaltab stop. Ignoredif thereisnonexthorizontaltabstopinthecurrentline.Notethatwhen underliningis selected,spacesskippedby horizontaltabulationare not underlined.

Relativehorizontaltab

Mode	ASCII	Decimal	Hexadecimal
std.	cESC> ‘A” nl n2	27 92 nl d	IB 5C nl n2

Movestheprintpositionrightorlefta specifieddistance(maximum 8 inches).Ignoredif theresultingpositionis beyondthe rightor left margin.The formulasfor the distanceand directionare as follows: If n2 is betweenOand 63,the printheadmovesrightby (nl + n2 x 256)/120inches.

If youwantto movetheprintheadto theleft,nl andn2 areobtained by subtractingthe value from 65536,and dividingthe result into high and low bytes.

Absolutehorizontaltab in inches

Mode	ASCII	Decimal	Hexadecimal
std.	cESC> 4’$” nl n2	27 36 nl n2	IB 24 nl n2

Setsthenextprintpositionto (nl + n2x 256)/60inchesfromtheleft margin on the currentline. Ignored if this positionis beyond the rightmargin.The maximumpositionis 8 inches.

Absolutehorizontaltab in columns

Mode	ASCII				Decimal			Hexadecimal
std.	<ESC>	“f’	“O”	n	27102	48	n	IB	66	30	n
	cESC>	“f’	cO>	n	27102	0	n	IB	M	00	n

Moves the next print positionto column n fmm the left margin, where n is betweenOand 127.

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