Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Underlining

 

 

 

 

Superscripts

 

and

subscripts

 

Changing

the

Print

Pitch

 

Expanded

print

 

 

Making SG-lo/15 Print Darker

 

Mixing

Modes

 

 

 

 

Summary

 

 

 

 

 

Line Spacing and Forms Control

49

Starting

New

Lines

 

 

Changing

Line Spacing

 

Moving down the page without a carriage mturn

Forms

Controls

 

 

 

Form

feed

 

 

 

 

Changing

the

Page

Length

 

Top and

Bottom

Margins

 

Summary

 

 

 

 

 

Formatting Your Output

61

Using

Horizontal

Tabs

 

A one-shot tab command

 

Setting Left and Right Margins

 

Using

Vertical

Tabs

 

 

A one-shot vertical tab command

 

Summary

 

 

 

 

 

Special Features of the SG10/15

67

Now

hear

this

 

 

Initializing

SG-lo/15

 

Putting SC-lo/l 5 to sleep

Printing to the bottom of the sheet

 

Backspace, delete, and cancel text

 

“Zero”

printing

 

 

 

 

Unidirectional

printing

 

The

seven bit

dilemma

 

 

Block graphics characters and special symbols

 

International

 

character sets

 

The

macro

control

code

 

Summary

 

 

 

 

 

 

Creating Your Own Characters

81

Dot

Matrix Printing

 

 

 

The

Print

Matrix

 

 

 

 

Defining

 

Your

Own

Characters

 

 

Rule 1: Download characters are eight dots high

 

Rule 2: Dots cannot overlap

 

 

Add up each column of dots

 

 

Assigning a value to your character

 

Download

character

definition

command

Printing

Download

Characters

 

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Star Micronics SG-10, SG-15 user manual Chapter, Form Feed Changing Length Top Bottom Margins Summary

SG-10, SG-15 specifications

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