Star Micronics Radix User Manual page 107

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Formatting Your Output
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When you want to reset the margins to the default values, you
have two choices. You can either turn the printer off and back on,
or you can set margin values equal to the default values. This
means that you should set a left margin of
1
and a right margin of
80
on Radix-10 or
136
on Radix-15
If you change the pitch of your printing after you set your
margins, the margins will not change. They stay at the same place
on the page. So if you set the margins to give you
65
columns of
printing when you are using pica type, and then you change to
elite type you will have room for more than
65
columns of elite
printing between the margins.
Using Vertical Tabs
Vertical tabs have the same kinds of uses that horizontal tabs
do-they just work in the other direction. Horizontal tabs allow
you to reach a specific column on the page no matter where you
start from. Vertical tabs are the same. If you have a vertical tab set
at line 20, a (VT) (or vertical tab) will move you to line 20 whether
you start from line 5 or line
19.
The default vertical tab settings are every six lines. If you send
a
CHR$(ll),
which is the ASCII code for (VT), before we have set
up tabs it will advance the paper to one of these preset tabs. Enter
this program to see how this works.
10 'Demo vertical tabs.
20 LPRINT CHR$(ll) "First tab."
30 LPRINT CHR$(ll) "Second tab."
40
LPRINT CHR$(ll) "Third tab."
50 LPRINT CHR$(ll) "Fourth tab."
The
CHR$(ll)
in each line advances the paper to the next
vertical tab. The lines should be spaced evenly, six lines apart.
Now let's set some vertical tabs of our own. Add these lines to
the program:
12 LPRINT CHR$(27) "P" CHR$(10) ;
14
LPRINT
CHFt$(20) CHFQ(40) CI-W$50)
CfW(0) ;