Dress-Up Modes And Master Select; Four Modes; Underline Mode - Epson FX Series User Manual

Dress-Up Modes and Master Select

In the first three subsections of this chapter, we cover four more
print modes: Underline; two Script Modes-Superscript and Sub-
script; and Italic. Each of these modes allows you to add a particular
finishing touch to your printouts. After we show how you can quickly
select combinations of pitch and weight by using the Master Select
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feature, we demonstrate combining the combinations.

Four Modes

These four modes give you capabilities that are unusual for dot-
matrix printing: an underline of any character or blank space, true
Super- and Subscript characters, and an Italic Mode that any com-
puter system can select without software adjustments.

Underline Mode

In the old days, dot-matrix printers could not underline words.
Even in the not-so-old days, printer users like you had to use all kinds
of tricks to underline words. The technique usually involved using
either the hyphen (-) or underscore (_), along with either a change of
line spacing or the use of backspace. When it worked, the right words
did get underlined, but those methods were tedious and time consum-
ing.
Those days are now gone, thanks to the FX. It has a built-in Under-
line Mode that makes underlining very easy. You can toggle the con-
trol code for Underline, ESCape "-", on and off just as you toggle the
code for Expanded Mode. To turn Underline on, you use:
CHR$(27)"-"CHR$(l) or
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CHR$(27)"-1"
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