Dress-Up Modes And Master Select; Dress-Up Modes; Underline Mode - Epson FX-80 User Manual

Chapter 5
Dress-Up Modes and Master Select
Dress-Up Modes
In this chapter we cover four more print modes (Underline, Super-
script, Subscript, and Italic); each allows you to add a finishing touch
to your printouts. Later we show how these modes can be combined
with the modes for print pitch and density that were covered in pre-
vious chapters.
Underline Mode
In the old days, dot-matrix printers did not know how to underline
words. Even in the not-sa-old days, printer users like yourself had to
use all kinds of tricks to underline words. The technique usually in-
volved 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 got underlined, but those methods were te-
dious and time consuming.
Those days are now gone, thanks to the
FX-80.
It has a built-in
Underline Mode that makes underlining very easy. Here is the format:
CHR$(27) "-"CHR$(l)
or
CHR$(27) "-1"
The
<
ESC> " -1" turns Underline Mode on, and
<
ESC> " - 0" turns
it off. Enter and RUN this program to see what it looks like:
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