Set horizontal tab stops
Mode | ASCII | Decimal | Hexadecimal |
Both 1 <ESC> “D” nl n2 . <O> 27 68 nl n2... 0 1B 44 nl n2... 00
Cancels all current horizontal tab stops and sets new tab stops at columns nl, n.2,etc. in the current character pitch (pica pitch if proportional spacing is currently selected), where nl, n2, etc. are numbers between 1 and 255. The maximum number of horizontal tab stops allowed is 32 in Standard mode and 28 in IBM mode. The tab stops must be specified in ascending order; any violation of ascending order terminates the tab stop list. Standard termination is by the < 0 > control code. To clear all tab stops, specify <ESC> “D” <O>.
Set horizontal tab stop every n columns
Mode | ASCII |
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| < ESC > | “e” | “0” | n | 27 101 | 48 | n | 1B | 65 | 30 | n |
Both | - | “e” | CO> | n | 27 101 | 0 | n | 1B | 65 | 00 | n |
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Cancels all current horizontal tab stops and sets new tab stops every n columns, where n is between 1 and 127.
Reset all tab stops
Mode | ASCII |
| Decimal | Hexadecimal |
IBM | <ESC> | “R” | 27 82 | 1B 52 |
Resets the horizontal tab stops to their
Horizontal tab
IModel | ASCII | I | Decimal | I | Hexadecimal | I |
Both | <HT> | 1 | 9 | 1 | 09 |
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Moves the print position to the next horizontal tab stop. Ignored if there is no next horizontal tab stop in the current line. Note that when un- derlining is selected, spaces skipped by horizontal tabulation are not underlined.