Star Micronics NB24-10/15 user manual Here’s what you should get from this program

220 LPRINT "This is EXPANDED SEMI-CONDENSED."

230 LPRINT CHR$(27);"M";

240 LPRINT "This is EXPANDED ELITE."

250 LPRINT CHR$(27);"P";

260 LPRINT "This is EXPANDED PICA."

270 LPRINT CHR$(27);"WO"

280END

Here’s what you should get from this program:

This line is CON3ENSEDELITEpitch.
This line is CONDENSEDPICApitch.
This line is SEMI-CONDENSEDpitch,
This line is NORMALELITE pitch.
This	line	is	NORMAL PICA		pitch.
This	line	is	EXPANDED	CONDENSED ELITE.
This	line	is	EXPANDED		CONDENSED	PICA.
This	is	EXPANDED		SEMI-CONDENSED.
This	is		EXPANDED		ELITE,
This		is	EXPANDED		PICA,

n Proportional printing

Have you ever looked closely at the printing in books and magazines? Doesn’t it look nice? The main reason is that each character is given an amount of space proportional to its actual width. A typewriter (and most printers), on the other hand, give every character the same amount of space, no matter how wide it is. (Pica pitch, for example, gives a “w” and an “i” l/10 of an inch each. Looking at these letters you see that a “w” is two or three times as wide as an “i”.)

Well, you too can enjoy professional-looking proportional printing. You can turn proportional printing on and off with the following commands.

	Table	4-9
	Proportional	commands
Function	ON	Control code
Proportional		(ESC)	“p” 1
Proportional	OFF	(ESC)	“p" 0