Star Micronics Rainbow NX-1000C User Manual page 46

SPECIAL EFFECTS
In addition to printing italics and expanding characters to double width,
the printer can underline text, print superscripts and subscripts, print in
reverse (white on black), or print in boldface. There are two types of boldface:
emphasized printing, which thickens vertical lines; and double-strike
printing, which thickens horizontal lines. In draft mode you can get very
heavy bolding by using both emphasized and double-strike. In near-
letter-quality mode double-strike alone is sufficient; emphasized printing
adds no extra effect. Also, elite and condensed printing cannot be emphasized
in either draft or NLQ mode.
There are commands for selecting the special effects individually; see
Appendix B for details. You can assign these commands to variables and
use them in the same way as the italic and other commands in the preceding
sample programs.
The command used in the next program selects special effects in com-
bination. This master print mode command can also select the print pitch.
The command coding is < 27 > < 33 > < n >, where n is a number from
o
to 255. The value of n comes from the following table:
Function n Function
n
Underline 128 Emphasized 8
Italic 64 Condensed 4
Expanded 32 Proportional 2
Double-strike 16 Elite 1
For example, if you want elite pitch (1) with double-strike (16) and italic
(64) special effects you can get all this with the single command < 27 >
<33> <81 >, because 81
=
1
+
16
+
64. This command also turns off
the nonselected effects, so the printing will not be underlined, expanded,
emphasized, condensed, or proportional.
Since we have already seen the printer's pitches, the following program
samples only the special effects. You may want to run this program twice:
once in draft mode, and once in NLQ mode, which you can select from the
control panel before the program starts.
100 REM SPECIAL EFFECTS
110 DATA 8, "EMPHASIZED "
120 DATA 16. "DOUBLE-STRIKE"
130 DATA 32. "EXPANDED"
140 DATA 64. "ITALIC "
150 DATA 128. "UNDERLINED "
160 FOR N
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l TO 5 :READ W(N). SE$(N) :NEXT N
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