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When you combineproportionalspacingwith automaticjustificationyou
can get text that lookslike that in professionallytypesetbooks.
A note, though: the proportionalspacing command can not change a
monospaced-pitch fontintoaproportionally spacedone.Youshouldalways
have a proportionallyspacedfont selectedwhen you send this command.
To enableproportionalprinting,send this command:
<ESC>P
And to turn off proportionalprinting,send this command:
<ESC>Q
Whatif youneedto printnumbersin columnswithinproportionallyspaced
text?No problem:just turn off proportionalspacingfor yournumbersand
set.thespace-widthto 15.
Proportional spacing offset
If you are printingwith proportionalspacingyou can actuallycontrolthe
oflset, or amountof space inserted betweencharacters.For instance,you
might wantto justify a line of print yourself.
With the Spacing Offset command you can change the distance each
characteradvancesin incrementsof 1/120thinch.The printercancelsthis
commandwhen it receivesa carriagereturn, <ESC> X or anotheroffset
command.That meansthis commandis effectivejust one line at a time.
To adjustthe offset,send this command:
<ESC><DC1>n
For n you enter a figurethat sets the numberof l/120-inch incrementsby
which spacingis to change.To increasecharacterspacing,for n you just
enterthenumberof increments,fromOto 63.To showyouwantto decrease
characterspacing, you add 64 to the number of incrementsyou want to
subtract.
For example,the command<ESC> <DC1> 67 will decrease the space
betweencharactersby 3/120inch,because3 plus 64 equals67.
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