Tally Genicom Matrix Printer manual ESC p

Proportional Spacing				ESC p
Data Structure ASCII	ESC "p"		<n> or n	proportional spacing ON/OFF
hex.	1B	70	<n> or n
dec.	27	112	<n> or n

Description If 1 is specified for n, proportional spacing is ON, if 0 is specified for n, proportional spacing is OFF.

When in default font type, all characters are assigned a fixed, equally wide space. When in proportional spacing, the spaces between each character are set to the actual width of the characters; on account of these “proportional” characters reading of the text becomes more easy.

Proportional spacing selects automatically LQ as print quality. Condensed is reset. The set character densities are only effective again, when proportional spacing is switched off.

Example	10	REM	proportional spacing
	20	LPRINT	CHR$(27);"p";CHR$(1);
	30	LPRINT	"This is proportional spacing"
	40	LPRINT	CHR$(27);"p";CHR$(0);
	50	LPRINT "This is normal spacing"
	60	END

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