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The (ESC)"J"CHR$(lOO)
in line 50 changes the spacing to
100/180 inches for one line only without moving the printhead.
The rest of the lines printed
with the normal line spacing.
Notice that both line 30 and line 50 end with semicolons.
This
prevents the normal line feed from occurring.
The (ESC)"j"CHR$(n)
command works the same way except
that the paper moves in the opposite direction. Try this simple
change to your program and see what a difference
it makes!
40 ' One-time
reverse
line
feed
50 LPRINT CHR$(27);"j";CHR$(lOO);
LINE
NUMBER 3.
LINE
NUMBER 4.
LINE
NUMBER 1.
LINE
NUMBER 2.
PAGE CONTROL
Now that we have seen how to control line spacing, we can go
on to page control - positioning the printing on the page and ad-
justing the paper length.
n Form feed
The simplest forms control code is the form feed. Form feed
(or < FF >) is CHR$(12) and causes the printer to move the
paper to the top of the next sheet. Try it by changing lines 40
and 50 to this:
' Form feed
;:
LPRINT CHRS(12);
Before you run the program,
turn your printer off and adjust
the paper so that the top of the sheet is even with the top of the
ribbon guide on the print head, then turn the printer back on. If
you don't remember
how to do this, review Chapter 2. When
you run the program,
the results will look like this:
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