Epson FX-286 User Manual - Page 66

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, however, that the FX-286 has the ability to produce almost any combination 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 d o u b l e - w i d t h A later section in this chapter explains a special Epson mode ESCape code, Master Select, which allows you to control seven features 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 5-10