Star Micronics Radix User Manual page 75

Printing Text With Radix
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Table 7-l
Near letter quality commands
Function
Control code
Near letter quality ON
(ESC) "B" CHR$(4)
Near letter quality OFF
(ESC) "B" CHR$(5)
Italic printing
Italic letters are letters that are slanted to the right. Radix can
print all of its letters except NLQ characters in italic as well as the
roman (standard) letters you are accustomed to. Italics can be
used to give extra emphasis to certain words. The command
codes to turn italic on and off are shown in Table
7-2.
Function
Italic ON
Italic OFF
Table 7-2
Italic commands
Control code
(ESC) "4"
(ESC) "5"
Use this program to see italic characters:
18 'Demo italic and roman.
2@ LPRINT CHR$(27) "-bl' ; 'Italic on.
3p! LPRINT "This line is in ITALIC characters."
4@ LPRINT CHR$(27) "5" ; 'Italic off.
5p LPRINT "This line is in ROMAN (normal) characters."
Here is what you should get:
This Iine is in ITAL.TG' characterr,
This line is in ROMAN inormal) characters.
This program is easy; line 20 turns italic on with (ESC)
"4",
and line 40 turns it off with (ESC) "5".
Underlining
Not only can Radix print all styles of printing in both roman