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CHAPTER 4
FORMATTING TEXT
Subjects covered in Chapter 4 include-
* The carriage return and line feed
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The amount of space between lines
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Moving to the next page
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The number of lines on a printed page
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Horizontal and vertical tabs
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Setting margins - left, right, top and bottom
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Centering and aligning
Chapter
3 showed
us the basic techniques
for using the
printer. Now we're ready for the more advanced ones. We'll con-
centrate
on changing
the appearance
of the page to suit our
needs.
LINES AND LINE SPACING
n Starting a new line
Up until now the only time we have thought about printing on
a new line is when we didn't want it to happen. We learned that
putting a semicolon (;) at the end of a BASIC line will not end the
line of printing.
So somehow,
the computer
tells the printer
when to end one line and start another.
There are two codes that are used to end one line and start
another.
They are carriage return (CHR$(13)) and line feed
(CHR$(lO)). Like the escape codes, they have been given ab-
breviations
which you'll find many texts (including
this one):
(CR) and (LF). The codes are simple, but their action is a little
confusing (especially with BASIC). Let's begin with the carriage
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