Italic Mode - Epson FX Series User Manual

Notice that ESCape "T" turns either kind of Script Mode off and also
that both versions of Script Mode are automatically printed in
Double-Strike. Since Double-Strike prints at half speed, so do the
Script Modes. And since Double-Strike can't mix with Proportional,
neither can either type of Script.
If you are using the FX-100 and you switch in and out of Double-
Strike Mode several times in the same line, you will see that
line slopes slightly to the right. This happens because Script prints in
Double-Strike, for which FX printers use two passes. After one pass to
print the characters on the current print line, the print head moves
down the page one-third of a dot to print
The FX-80 can use reverse feed to return to the original print line,
but the FX-100 cannot. This does not make much difference when you
use Double-Strike infrequently. If you are using an FX-100, you can
add Underline Mode to your program to see exactly where the jog
comes:
10 LPRINT CHR$(27)"-1"
We mention this now because it is with Script characters that you are
most likely to move in and out of Double-Strike several times on one
line. If you do that on an FX-100, you'll get a line
If Double-Strike was the current mode before the printer entered
Script Mode, the printer exits from Script to Double-Strike. If not, the
printer returns to Single-Strike.

Italic Mode

This is the last print mode
characters are printed in a completely different typeface than are the
more usual Roman characters. Appendix A shows the dot-matrix pat-
terns used to define both Roman and Italic characters, along with their
corresponding ASCII numbers. As you saw in Chapter 2,
characters' numbering begins in the top half of
160, to be exact). And some computer systems won't let the numbers
of the top half through to the printer.
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the
we introduce in this chapter. Italic
that
the
second set of dots.
declines.
that
the
ASCII range (at
the
print
Italic