Margins And Tabs; Margins; Left Margin - Epson FX Series User Manual

At power-up, your FX contains specific default settings for margins
and for horizontal and vertical tabs. You can make changes to any of
these. Since it is best to change margins before tabs, we discuss mar-
gins first, then three aspects each of horizontal and vertical tabs.

Margins

Most word processing programs have commands
the left and right margins. If yours doesn't, or if you ever need to
change margins from a BASIC program, the FX has just the thing-
margin control. For Pica pitch, the default margins are 80 characters
for the FX-80 and
separately to suit your needs.

Left margin

If your word processor cannot control the left margin, this com-
mand is the one you've been waiting for. The command for setting the
FX's left margin uses the lowercase letter el:
CHR$(27)"1"CHR$(n)
where n is the column number for your new left margin. Use
CHR$(l08) in place of the "1" if your system has trouble with lower-
case characters.
Here are the ground rules. The allowed values for n on the FX-80
range from 0 to
pressed Mode. On the FX-100 the ranges are 0 to 134 for Pica, 0 to 160
for Elite, and 0 to
settings, such as those greater than the current page width. New mar-
gin settings go into effect at the next carriage return, and they stay in
effect until you change them.
Chapter 9

Margins and Tabs

for the FX-100. You can change
136
for Pica, 0 to
78
for Compressed. The printer ignores all invalid
229
for Elite, and 0 to
93
let you set
that
margin
each
for Com-
133
113