Page/Form Layout Commands; Set All Tabs To Power On Setting; Set Horizontal Tabs - Lexmark 258x Technical Reference

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Page/Form Layout Commands

Set All Tabs to Power On Setting

This command sets the horizontal tabs at every 8th column, beginning at column 9 (9,
17, 25, and so on) and clears all vertical tabs.
Format ESC R
Decimal 27 82
Hexadecimal 1B 52
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Set Horizontal Tabs

This command sets up to 28 tabulation stops to be used with the printer command HT,
Horizontal Tabulation.
Format ESC D
Decimal 27 680
Hexadecimal 1B 44
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To set user-defined tabulation stops, use printer command ESC D for
horizontal tabs and ESC B for vertical tabs.
n1 ... n28 0
n1 ... n28 0
n1 ... n28 00
Set the tabulation stops in ascending order (n1.....n28).
The last digit in the sequence must be 0 to terminate the command.
Horizontal tabs are specified by column number. The left most column is
numbered one.
ESC D 0 clears all existing horizontal tab stops.
ESC R (Set Default Tabulation Stops) resets to the default horizontal
tabulation stops.
The printer command HT, Horizontal Tabulation, activates the tabulation
stops set by this Escape sequence.
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