Horizontal Tab Usage; Default Horizontal Tabs - Epson FX Series User Manual

Horizontal tab usage

The FX has the ability to tab horizontally, and it has default tabs set
in the current pitch at columns 8, 16,
spaces on out to the current width of the page. We will show you how
to change the tabs to suit your needs more closely, but first let's see
how the printer's tabs work.
You can move the print head from any position on the print line to
the next tab stop with the ASCII horizontal tab code, CHR$(9). You
use CHR$(9)-or CHR$(137) if 9 is a number your system does not
send-to move from stop to stop, whether the stop is a default tab or a
tab that you have set.
Using the exact line numbers shown, enter this sample program:
10 H$=CHR$(137): A$"0123456789"
30
FOR X=1 TO
40
FOR J=l TO
50
LPRINT H$;"TOP";
60
NEXT J: LPRINT
120 LPRINT CHR$(27)"@"
and compare your RUN with Figure 9-6.
This shows that the default tabs (each represented by the T of the
word TOP) are set in columns 8,
column count starts at 0.
3:
LPRINT A$;: NEXT X: LPRINT
3
Figure 9-6. Default horizontal tabs
. . . every eight Pica
24, 32,
etc. Remember that the
16, 24, 32,
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