Formatting; Vertical Tabs - Epson FX-80 User Manual

Chapter 9
Formatting
or . . .
EPSON
picks up the TAB
In this chapter we'll take a look at the way to set left and right
margins, and to set and use both horizontal and vertical tabs.
You're right if you think these sound like features on a typewriter.
Most of them are. Both printer and typewriter have the ability to set
margins and remember tab stops across the page. The major
differences lie in the ease of changing settings on the printer and the
printer's ability to store and use vertical tabs. In fact, that's where we
start.
Vertical Tabs (VTabs)
The vertical tab feature of the FX-80 makes it easy to skip several
lines on a page. It can be used to skip lines of text to make room for a
diagram or chart, or to print out a form like the one shown as Figure
9-1. The sections of the form are separated by series of blank lines. A
series of lines could be skipped by using LPRINT s in a loop, but that is
an inefficient way to program when you have an FX-80 at your dis-
posal. The FX-80 allows you to skip directly to the place where you
want to start your next section by printing a single code.
First you have to tell the printer the line numbers that it is going to
skip to (vertical tab stops). Enter:
NEW
2(il LPRINTCHR$(27)"B"CHR$(3)CHR$(8)CHR$(18)
CHR$(27)CHR$(37)CHR$(48)CHR$(1);
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