Star Micronics NB24-10/15 User Manual page 67

220 LPRINT "This is EXPANDED SEMI-CONDENSED."
230 LPRINT CHR$(27);"M";
240 LPRINT "This is EXPANDED ELITE."
250 LPRINT CHR$(27);"P";
260 LPRINT "This is EXPANDED PICA."
270 LPRINT CHR$(27);"WO"
280
END
Here's what you should get from this program:
This line is CON3ENSED ELITE pitch.
This line is CONDENSED PICA pitch.
This line is SEMI-CONDENSED pitch,
This line is NORMAL ELITE pitch.
This line is NORMAL PICA pitch.
This line is EXPANDED CONDENSED ELITE.
This line
is EXPANDED CONDENSED PICA.
This is EXPANDED SEMI-CONDENSED.
This is EXPANDED ELITE,
This is
EXPANDED PICA,
n Proportional
printing
Have you ever looked closely at the printing in books and
magazines? Doesn't it look nice? The main reason is that each
character is given an amount of space proportional to its actual
width. A typewriter (and most printers), on the other hand, give
every character the same amount of space, no matter how wide
it is. (Pica pitch, for example, gives a "w" and an "i" l/10 of an
inch each. Looking at these letters you see that a "w" is two or
three times as wide as an "i".)
Well, you too can enjoy professional-looking proportional
printing. You can turn proportional printing on and off with the
following commands.
Table 4-9
Proportional commands
Function
Control code
Proportional
ON
(ESC) "p"
1
Proportional
OFF (ESC) "p" 0