Epson FX-80 Specifications download pdf (Page 130)

Chapter 9

Margins and Tabs

At power-up, your FX contains specific default settings for margins

and for horizontal and vertical tabs. You can make changes to any of

these. Since it is best to change margins before tabs, we discuss mar-

gins first, then three aspects each of horizontal and vertical tabs.

Margins

Most word processing programs have commands

that

let you set

the left and right margins. If yours doesn’t, or if you ever need to

change margins from a BASIC program, the FX has just the thing-

margin control. For Pica pitch, the default margins are 80 characters

for the FX-80 and

136

for the FX-100. You can change

each

margin

separately to suit your needs.

Left margin

If your word processor cannot control the left margin, this com-

mand is the one you’ve been waiting for. The command for setting the

FX’s left margin uses the lowercase letter el:

CHR$(27)"1"CHR$(n)

where n is the column number for your new left margin. Use

CHR$(l08) in place of the “1” if your system has trouble with lower-

case characters.

Here are the ground rules. The allowed values for n on the FX-80

range from 0 to 78 for Pica, 0 to 93 for Elite, and 0 to 133 for Com-

pressed Mode. On the FX-100 the ranges are 0 to 134 for Pica, 0 to 160

for Elite, and 0 to

229

for Compressed. The printer ignores all invalid

settings, such as those greater than the current page width. New mar-

gin settings go into effect at the next carriage return, and they stay in

effect until you change them.

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