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Near Letter Quality Mode, WIDTH LPRINT 255

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In fact, if you need even more than the 132 characters per line that compressed gives you, you can combine elite and compressed for a mode we call compressed elite. It is not really another pitch, because the size of the characters is the same as in the compressed mode; only the space between the characters is reduced. You can see this mode, which allows 160 characters to fit on a line, if you replace line 30 in your last program with this line: 30 LPRINT CHR$(15); With this addition, the program turns on compressed but doesn't turn off elite, giving you the printout below: ~~DEF~~]Jr~#M~~i~~~~'i~~'~, I."- &&f$l If your printout is different, you may need a WIDTH statement such as the one below: 5 WIDTH LPRINT 255 The format for your system will probably be different. Consult your BASIC manual. Near Letter Quality Mode The examples so far in this chapter are in the draft mode, and you have already learned how to turn on the NLQ mode with SelecType, but you can also see the NLQ mode with the following program: 10 LPRINT CHRrG(27) "x"CHR$(l); 20 FOR X=65 TO 105 30 LPRINT CHR$(X); 40 NEXT X: LPRINT Note that you use a lowercase x, not a capital X, in line 10. Because of the high resolution of the NLQ mode, it prints only in pica, not in elite or compressed. 39

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In fact, if you need even more than the 132 characters per line that
compressed gives you, you can combine elite and compressed for a
mode we call compressed elite. It is not really another pitch, because
the size of the characters is the same as in the compressed mode; only
the space between the characters is reduced. You can see this mode,
which allows 160 characters to fit on a line, if you replace line 30 in
your last program with this line:
30 LPRINT CHR$(15);
With this addition, the program turns on compressed but doesn’t
turn off elite, giving you the printout below:
~~DEF~~]Jr~#M~~i~~~~‘i~~‘~,
I.“-
&&f$l
If your printout is different, you may need a WIDTH statement
such as the one below:
5 WIDTH LPRINT 255
The format for your system will probably be different. Consult
your BASIC manual.
Near Letter Quality Mode
The examples so far in this chapter are in the draft mode, and you
have already learned how to turn on the NLQ mode with SelecType,
but you can also see the NLQ mode with the following program:
10
LPRINT
CHRrG(27)
“x”CHR$(l);
20
FOR
X=65
TO
105
30
LPRINT
CHR$(X);
40
NEXT
X:
LPRINT
Note that you use a lowercase x, not a capital X, in line 10. Because
of the high resolution of the NLQ mode, it prints only in pica, not in
elite or compressed.
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