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Table 4-1
Letter quality
commands
Function
Letter quality ON
Letter quality OFF
Control
code
(ESC) "x" 1
(ESC) "I" 2 (IBM-P mode only)
(ESC) "x" 0
(ESC) "I" 0 (IBM-P mode only)
n Italic printing
Italic letters are letters that are slanted to the right. Your
printer can print all of its letters in italic as well as the roman
(standard) letters you are accustomed
to. Italics can be used to
give extra emphasis
to certain words. The commands
to turn
italic on and off are shown in Table 4-2.
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Table 4-2
Italic commands
Function
Control
code
Italic ON
(ESC) "4" (except IBM-P mode)'
(FS) "4"
(IBM-P mode only)
Italic OFF
(ESC) "5" (except IBM-P mode)
(FS) "5"
(IBM-P mode only) *
Use this program to see italic characters:
10
' Demo of
italic
and roman
20 LPRINT CHR$(27);"4";
30 LPRINT
"This
line
is
in
ITALIC
characters."
40 LPRINT CHR$(27);"5";
50 LPRINT
"This
line
is
in ROMAN characters."
Here is what you should get:
This
line
is
in
ITALIC
characters.
This
line
is
in
ROMAN characters.
In this program,
line 20 turns italic on with (ESC) "4", and
line 40 turns italic off with (ESC) "5".
Now, set the "Type
Style Panel"
mode,
as described
in
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