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220 LPRINT "This is EXPANDED PICA."
230 LPRINT CHR$(27);"WO"
240 END
Here’s what you should get from this program:
This line is CONDENSED ELITE pitch.
This line is CONDENSED PICA pitch.
n Proportional printing
Have you ever looked closely at the printing in books and
magazines? Doesn’t it look nice? The main reason is that each
character is given an amount of space proportional to its actual
width. A typewriter (and most printers), on the other hand, give
every character the same amount of space, no matter how wide
it is. (Pica pitch, for example, gives a “w” and an “i” l/10 of an
inch each. Looking at these letters you see that a “w” is two or
three times as wide as an “i”.)
Well, you too can enjoy professional-looking proportional
printing. You can turn proportional printing on and off with the
following commands.
Try this program to see how the proportional spacing works.
10 '
Demo of proportional printing
20 LPRINT CHR$(27);"M";
30 LPRINT "This line is NORMAL ELITE printing."