CHAPTER 3

PRINTING WITH BASIC

Subjects covered in Chapter 3 include-

. Listing BASIC programs on the printer

How a program prints things

Control codes, escape codes, and command syn- tax

Near letter quality (NLQ) characters

Fixed and proportional character spacing

Special printing-

Printing in italics

Underlining

Superscripts and subscripts

Boldface and emphasized text

Mixing print modes

To show you how to control your printer from a program, we have chosen BASIC because it is easy to learn and easy to use. Also, more personal computer users program in BASIC than in any other language.

The rest of this manual will show you a little BASIC - just enough for you to use your printer. We’re not going to try to make you an expert programmer, though, only get you started.

There are many excellent books that will teach you BASIC, so if you discover that you like to program you should have no trou- ble learning more about it.

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