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Near Letter Quality Mode, LPRINT CHR$27M, NEXT X: LPRINT, LPRINT CHR$27xCHR$l

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In fact, for even more characters than the 233 per line that condensed gives you, elite and condensed can be combined for a mode called condensed elite (in the Epson mode only). It is not really another width, because the size of the characters is the same as in the condensed mode; only the space between the characters is reduced. You can see this mode, which allows 272 characters to fit on a line, if you replace line 30 in your last program to produce the following program: 20 LPRINT CHR$(27)"M"; 30 LPRINT CHR$(15); 40 FOR X=65 TO 105 50 LPRINT CHR$(X); 60 NEXT X: LPRINT With this addition, the program turns on condensed but doesn't turn off elite, giving you the printout below: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_'abcdefghi Near Letter Quality Mode The examples so far in this chapter are in the draft mode, but you can also use a software command rather than the FORM FEED/NLQ button to turn on the NLQ mode. Enter and run the following program to see how the NLQ mode is turned on by an ESCape sequence in Epson mode (Escape "x1") or Proprinter mode (Escape "12"). (Note that you use a lowercase x, not a capital X, in line 10). NEW 10 LPRINT CHR$(27)"x"CHR$(l); or 10 LPRINT CHR$(27)"I"CHR$(2) 20 FOR X=65 TO 105 30 LPRINT CHR$(X); 40 NEXT X: LPRINT ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\l^-'abcdefghi 5-6

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In fact, for even more characters than the
233
per line that con-
densed gives you, elite and condensed can be combined for a mode
called condensed elite (in the Epson mode only). It is not really
another width, because the size of the characters is the same as in the
condensed mode; only the space between the characters is reduced.
You can see this mode, which allows
272
characters to fit on a line, if
you replace line
30
in your last program to produce the following
program:
20 LPRINT CHR$(27)"M";
30
LPRINT CHR$(15);
40
FOR
X=65
TO
105
50
LPRINT CHR$(X);
60
NEXT X: LPRINT
With this addition, the program turns on condensed but doesn’t
turn off elite, giving you the printout below:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_'abcdefghi
Near Letter Quality Mode
The examples so far in this chapter are in the draft mode, but you
can also use a software command rather than the FORM FEED/NLQ
button to turn on the NLQ mode.
Enter and run the following program to see how the NLQ mode is
turned on by an ESCape sequence in Epson mode (Escape
"x1")
or
Proprinter mode (Escape
"12").
(Note that you use a lowercase x, not
a capital X, in line
10).
NEW
10 LPRINT CHR$(27)"x"CHR$(l);
or
10 LPRINT CHR$(27)"I"CHR$(2)
20
FOR
X=65
TO
105
30
LPRINT CHR$(X);
40
NEXT X: LPRINT
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\l^-‘abcdefghi
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