10 'Demo near letter quality character set.

20 LPRINT CHR$(27) "B" CHR$(4) ; 'Select NLQ. 34)LPRINT "This line shows NEAR LETTER QUALITY!" 40 LPRINT CHRS(27) "B" CHR$(5) ; 'Select draft. 50 LPRINT "This line shows standard print."

In this program, line 20 selects NLQ characters with the

<ESC > “B” CHR$(4) command. Line 30 prints a sample before line 40 switches SG- 1O/l 5 back to draft printing with an < ESC > “B” CHR$(S). When you run the program you should get this:

This line shows NEAR LETTER QUALITY!

Thl 5 1 .Ine ,shows 5 t an d at- 13 p t- i n t .

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If you are using with the IBM mode, change the following lines to the program given above.

2@ LPRINT CHR$(27) "4" ; 'Select NLQ. 44)LPRINT CHR$(27) "5" ; 'Select draft.

Table 5-l

Near letter quality commands

w Italic printing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Italic letters are letters

that are

slanted

to

the right. SG-IO/l5

_-

can print all of its letters except NLQ characters in italic as well

 

as the roman (standerd)letters you

are accustomed

to.

Italics

-

can be used to give extra emphasis

to

certain words.

The corn-

e

mand codes to turn italic

on and

off

are

shown in Table

5-2.

..._

 

Table

5-2

 

 

 

 

 

 

-

 

Italic commands

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Function

1 Mode

1Control

code

 

 

 

ItalicON

1 STAR

l < ESC>

"4"

 

 

 

 

IIBM

I <ESC>

"I"1

 

 

.-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ItalicOFF

l STAR

l < ESC >

“5”

 

 

I

L

IIBM

I <ESC>

 

-I”O

 

 

I

Use thisprogram with STAR mode to see italic characters:

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Star Micronics SG-15, SG-10 user manual Use thisprogram with Star mode to see italic characters

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