Printing Text With Sg; Some Special Kinds Of Text; Near Letter Quality Characters - Star Micronics SG-10 User Manual

CHAPTER 5
PRINTING TEXT
WITH SG-lo/15
Beginning with this chapter we will be exploring all the features
of SG-10/15.
In this chapter we'll cover:
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Near letter quality characters
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Italics
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Underlining
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Superscript and subscripts
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Print pitch
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Print emphasis
All our examples will be given in Microsoft BASIC as used
by the IBM Personal Computer, but remember that you don't
need to know BASIC to use SG-10/I 5's features. Just use the
same ASCII codes as we do in our examples.
You have already printed a few lines on your SG- 1 O/ 15 printer.
Now it's time to start looking at the many variations of printing
style that you have available to you.
SOME SPECIAL KINDS OF TEXT
H Near Letter Quality characters
SG-10/15's Near Letter Quality (sometimes abbreviated as
NLQ) character set is ideal for correspondence and other im-
portant printing, for it takes a keen eye to detect that it is from
a dot matrix printer. Normally (unless you have turned DIP switch
l-4 off). SG- IO/ 15 prints draft quality CharactersThis is adequate
for most work and it prints fastest. But for the final printout,
try NLQ. The program below shows how.