Mode Combinations; Italic Mode - Epson LX-86TM User Manual

Mode Combinations

You can combine nearly all of the print modes on the
Indeed, your Ix-86 printer can print such complicated combina-
tions as double-strike emphasized double-width underlined italic
subscript, although we're not sure that you would ever want to use
such a combination. The point is, however, that the LX-86 has the
ability to produce almost any combination you can think of; it's
up to you to decide which ones you want to use.
To see a few combinations, remove line
ram. (In MBASIC simply type
line.) Now run the program
response to the questions on the screen. This will give you the same
results as the first time you ran the program, but it will leave the
printer in emphasized mode so that you can add another mode. Then
run the program again (without turning off the printer). The second
time enter "W1" and "emphasized double-width."
Your printout should be in the typestyle below, showing that the
two modes combine with no trouble. You can experiment with other
combinations if you wish or you can wait for the section later in this
chapter that explains a special ESCape code, Master Select, which
allows you to combine as many as seven features with one ESCape
code.
e m p h a s i z e d
When you are through trying combinations, be sure to replace line
90 in the master program so that you can again try one feature at a
time.

Italic Mode

You may occasionally want to print italic words for emphasis,
titles, or other uses. The LX-86 has italic mode to enable you to use
italic characters for any purpose. Although characters produced by
the previous modes in this manual are modifications of the standard
pica characters, the LX-86 uses completely different characters for the
italic mode. In the printer's Read Only Memory (ROM) is a complete
set of draft italic characters. You can see the difference between stan-
dard and italic draft characters in Figure 6-4.
90 from
and press RETURN to delete the
90
once and enter "E" and "emphasized" in
d o u b l e - w i d
LX-86.
the master prog-
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