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Table 5-9

Units of motion for the absolute and relative horizontal tab commands

Print pitch		Unit of motion
	AbsolutetabcommandRelativetabcommand
Picapitch	1/60inch	1/120inch
Elitepitch	1/72inch	1/144inch
Condensedpicapitch 1/102inch		1/204inch
Condensedelitepitch 1/120inch		1/240inch

Try this program to see how this works.

10‘ Demo of relative horizontaltabs

20 FOR 1=1 TO 3

30 LPRINT “Relative”;

40 LPRINT CHR$(27) ; “\”; CHR.$( I *20) ; CHR.$(0) :

50J.,PRINT “Horizonta]”;

~(j[,PRINT (;HR$(~7) ; “ \“ ; CHR$( I * 10) ;CHR.(O};$ 7(I LPRI NT “Tab , “

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9 Vertical tabs

Vertical tabs have the same kinds of uses that horizontal tabs do – they just work in the other direction. Horizontal tabs allow you to reach a specific column on the page no matter where you start from. Vertical tabs are the same. If you have a vertical tab set at line 20, a vetiical tab (or (VT)) will move you to line 20 whether you start from line 5 or line 19.

-Vertical tabs are not set at the power-on default. If you send a CHR$(l 1) which is the ASCII code for (VT) before we have set up tabs, the command advances the paper only one line. Enter this program to see how this works.

10 ‘ Demo of v~rt. ica 1 tabs

4(J LFRINT CI{R$( 11) ; “FIRST TAB.“