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Pica Printing
The first exercise is a simple three-line program to print a sample
line of characters in pica, the standard width. Enter this program:
FOR X=65 TO 105
40
50 LPRINT CHR$(X);
60 NEXT X: LPRINT: LPRINT
Now run the program. You should get the results you see below, 10
pica characters per inch.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _ ' a b c d e f g h i
Changing Widths
Now you can try other widths. As explained in Chapter
uses the same pattern of dots for pica, elite, and condensed
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characters, but it changes the horizontal spaces between the dots to
produce the three different widths.
In elite mode there are
there are
17.16.
'WI" command (Escape ":" in Proprinter mode) and prints in con-
densed when it receives the ASCII
elite characters by adding the following line to your previous pro-
gram. (Simply type this line and press RETURN; you do not need to
retype the other lines.)
20 LPRINT CHR$(27)"M";
or
20 LPRINT CHR$(27)":";
This line uses the command for elite, ESCape "M" (or ":"), to turn
on that mode. When you run the program, your printout should look
like the one below.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_'abcdefghi
characters per inch, and in condensed
12
The
prints in elite when it receives the ESCape
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15
command. Print a sample line of
4,
the
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