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Chapter 5

Dress-Up Modes and Master Select

In the first three subsections of this chapter, we cover four more

print modes: Underline; two Script Modes-Superscript and Sub-

script; and Italic. Each of these modes allows you to add a particular

finishing touch to your printouts. After we show how you can quickly

select

combinations of pitch and weight by using the Master Select

feature, we demonstrate combining the combinations.

Four Modes

These four modes give you capabilities that are unusual for dot-

matrix printing: an underline of any character or blank space, true

Super- and Subscript characters, and an Italic Mode that any com-

puter system can select without software adjustments.

Underline Mode

In the old days, dot-matrix printers could not underline words.

Even in the not-so-old days, printer users like you had to use all kinds

of tricks to underline words. The technique usually involved using

either the hyphen (-) or underscore (_), along with either a change of

line spacing or the use of backspace. When it worked, the right words

did get underlined, but those methods were tedious and time consum-

ing.

Those days are now gone, thanks to the FX. It has a built-in Under-

line Mode that makes underlining very easy. You can toggle the con-

trol code for Underline, ESCape “-“, on and off just as you toggle the

code for Expanded Mode. To turn Underline on, you use:

CHR$(27)"-"CHR$(1) or

CHR$(27)"-1"

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