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Radix User's Manual
If your computer doesn't use Microsoft BASIC, look in the
appendix to see what changes you need to make for your BASIC.
The appendix tells you how to change the short example pro-
grams, and gives complete listings of the longer programs,
already converted for your computer.
You have already printed a few lines on your Radix 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
If you looked carefully at Radix's self test, you noticed that it
can print in italics. But there's more! Radix can underline charac-
ters, print superscripts and subscripts, and perhaps most exciting,
print near letter quality characters.
Near Letter Quality characters
Radix's Near Letter Quality (sometimes abbreviated as NLQ)
character set is ideal for correspondence and other important
printing, for it takes a keen eye to detect that it is from a dot matrix
printer. Normally (unless you have turned DIP switch A-4 off),
Radix prints draft quality characters. This is adequate for most
work and it prints fastest. But for the final printout, try NLQ. The
program below shows how.
18 'Demo near letter quality character set.
28 LPRINT CHR$(27) "Bf' CHR$(4) ; 'Select NLQ.
3p LPRINT "This line shows Radix's NEAR LETTER QUALITY!"
4pr LPRINT CHR$(27) tlBrl CHR$(S) ; 'Select draft.
5p! LPRINT "This line shows Radix's standard print."
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In this program, line 20 selects NLQ characters with the
(ESC) "B" CHR$(4) command. Line 30 prints a sample before
line 40 switches Radix back to draft printing with an (ESC) "B"
CHR$(5). When you run the program you should get this:
This line shows Radix's NEAR LETTER QUALITY!
'This
line
shows Hadix's standard
print.
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