This line is CONDENSED ELITE pitch,
This line is CONDENSED PICA pitch.
This line is NORMRL ELITE pitch.
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This line is EXPANDED CONDENSED ELITE.
This line is EXPANDED CONDENSED PICA.
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n Proportional printing
Have you ever noticed 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 printer), 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. Look these
letters closely and you’ll see that a “w” is two or three times as
wide as an “i”.)
Well, you too enjoy professional-looking proportional print-
ing. You can turn proportional printing on and off with the
following command.
Table 3-8
Proportional commands
Function Control code -
Proportional ON (ESC)“p”l
Proportional OFF (ESC)“p”O -
Try this program to see how the proportional spacing works.
10 ) Demo of proportional printing
20 LPRINT CHR$(~~);"M~;
30 LPRINT "This line is NORMAL ELITE printing."
4-O LPRINT CHR$(27);"pl";
50 LPRINT "This line is PROPORTIONAL ELITE."
60 LPRINT CHR$(27);"P";
70 LPRINT "This line is PROPORTIONAL PICA."
80 LPRINT CHR$(~~);~~~O~Q
90 LPRINT "This line is NORMAL PICA printing."
100 END