Vertical Tab Usage; Absolute Horizontal Tabs - Epson FX Series User Manual

For the FX-100 this is:
135 in Pica, 162 in Elite, and 232 in Compressed.
Don't forget that resetting the margins automatically returns the
tabs to their default settings. Set margins before tabs.
Tabs are set in the currently active pitch, and subsequent changes in
pitch do not affect the tab positions. Here's proof. Add these lines to
your current program:
60
LPRINT CHR$(15);
70 LPRINT H$;H$;"TWO MORE";H$;"THE END"
and RUN it.
Figure 9-9 shows two more factors of tabbing. First, it demonstrates
the way to skip a tab. Since in line 70 you specified a tab stop (H$)
with no text string, the printer moved to the second stop. Second, this
figure shows that the tabs are set absolutely. Although you changed
the pitch to Compressed in line 60, which changed the width of char-
acters and spaces, the width of the tab did not change. You will need
to keep both these factors in mind as you use tabs.

Vertical tab usage

You use vertical tabs much as you do horizontal ones. With the
vertical tab code, CHR$(ll), you move from tab to tab. You can use
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Figure 9-9. Absolute horizontal tabs