the
FX-286;
your
FX-286
printer can print such complicated combina-
tions as double-strike emphasized double-width underlined subscript,
although you may never want such a combination. The point is, how-
ever, that the FX-286 has the ability to produce almost any combina-
tion you can think of; it’s up to you to decide which ones you want to
use.
To see emphasized combined with double-width, change two lines
in your previous program:
20 LPRINT CHR$(27)"W1"CHR$(27)"E";
30
LPRINT "Emphasized double-width"
When you run the program, your printout should match the one
below, showing that the two modes combine with no trouble.
This is standard printing.
Emphasized
double-width
A later section in this chapter explains a special Epson mode
ESCape code, Master Select, which allows you to control seven fea-
tures with one ESCape sequence.
Underline mode
The FX-286 also has a mode that will underline characters and
spaces. You turn it on with ESCape “-1” and off with ESCape "-0".
Note that the underline code is like the double-width code in that it
uses a character, in this case the hyphen or minus sign, combined with
the numeral one to turn it on and a character combined with the
numeral zero to turn it off. You can see it in action with the following
program:
NEW
10 LPRINT "This text is not underlined."
20 LPRINT CHR$(27)"-1";
30
LPRINT "This text is underlined."
This text is not underlined.
This text is underlined.
As shown in the printout above, the underline mode is continuous,
but some word processing and other applications programs produce
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