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mathematical function (a sine wave) to create a design. Later in

this chapter we’ll show something more complex. The mathematical concepts (such as sine and pi) demonstrated here are not important; you don’t have to be a math whiz to use this printer’s graphics.

nCombining text and graphics

It’s also possible to mix text and graphics in one line. This can be useful for labeling charts or graphs, or even inserting fancy graphics in text. Try adding these lines to our program:

45 PRINTUnl, "WOW' ";

115 PRINT#l, "THiS IS GREAT! ";

Now if you run the program you should get a printout that looks like this:

14 (1;)bJ ! ._--“-----___	_....----.--	_.,,“I_t.,, 1 cz; I[ cr; (1; R /g,-(-	!
“	.........-“’

But there is one thing to be careful of: all graphics data must print on the same line. The graphics command is turned off at the end of each line, even if you have specified that more graphics codes follow. To see what we mean, change line 30 to plot 1000 points and run the program.

30WID=lOOO

wciw ’ --.--

TH I s 1s ‘eEflTT--------.---

This will make the sine wave pattern long enough to go off the

page.

As you can see, your printer printed graphics up to the end of the line, then ignored the rest of the graphics data and returned to normal text on the next line.