n Proportional printing
Have you ever looked closely at the printing 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 4-8
Proportional commands
Function Control code
Proportional ON < ESC > “p” 1
’ Proportional OFF < ESC > “p” 0
Try this program to see how the proportional spacing works.
10 ’ Demo of proportional printing
20 LPRINT CHR$(27);"M";
30 LPRINT “This line is NORMAL ELITE printing.”
40 LPRINT CHR$ (27) ; “~1” ;
50 LPRINT “This line is PROPORTIONAL ELITE.”
60 LPRINT CHR$(27); “P”;
70 LPRINT “This line is PROPORTIONAL PICA. ”
80 LPRINT CHR$(27) ; “~0”;
90 LPRINT “This line is NORMAL PICA printing.”
100 END
When you run this program you should get this: