Star Micronics SB-10 user manual Underlined printing, Ladies and GENTLEMEN, Start Your Engines

40 LPRINT CHR$(27) CHR$(69);

‘SELECT EMPHASIZED

50 LPRINT “THIS IS EMPHASIZED PRINTING”

60 LPRINT CHR$(27) CHR$(‘Il);

‘SELECT DOUBLE-STRIKE

70 LPRINT “AND THIS IS BOTH AT ONCE”

80 LPRINT CHR$(27) CHR$(72) CHR$(27) CHR$(70);

‘CANCEL DOUBLE-STRIKE AND EMPHASIZED

90 LPRINT “NOW YOU’RE BACK TO NORMAL PRINTING”

THIS IS DOUBLE-STRIKE PRINTING

THIS IS EMPHASIZED PRINTING

AND THIS IS BOTH AT ONCE

NOW YOU’RE BACK TO NORMAL PRINTING

Figure 6-2. Double-strike and emphasized print in BASIC.

Underlined printing

Underlining is another good way to emphasize a point, or to highlight sections of text. Try this short program to give you an il- lustration of underline feature.

NEW

10 LPRINT CHR$(27) CHR$(45) CHR$(l);

‘SELECT UNDERLINE

20 LPRINT “LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ” ;

30 LPRINT CHR$(27) CHR$(45) CHR$(O);

‘CANCEL UNDERLINE

40 LPRINT “ START YOUR ENGINES!”

Your results should look like this:

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, START YOUR ENGINES!

Figure 6-3. A print sample of underlined text.

In thissample, the underline feature is turned on with thecommand CHR$(27) CHR$(45) CHR$(l), and turned off with CHR$(27) CHR$(45) CHR$(O). You’ll notice that we did it all on one line. You

can do this simply by adding-as we did-semicolons at the end of the appropriate lines. This tells BASIC to continue those lines without sending a carriage return/line feed at the end of each line.

We did this just to illustrate that most of the printer’s codes can be used in the middle of a line.

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