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Whenyoucombineproportionalspacingwith automaticjustificationyou
can gettextthatlookslikethatin professionallytypesetbooks.
A note, though: the proportionalspacing command can not change a
monospaced-pitchfontintoaproportionallyspacedone.Youshouldalways
havea proportionallyspacedfontselectedwhenyousendthiscommand.
To enableproportionalprinting,sendthiscommand:
<ESC>P
Andto turnoffproportionalprinting,sendthiscommand:
<ESC>Q
Whatifyouneedtoprintnumbersincolumnswithinproportionallyspaced
text?No problem:just turnoffproportionalspacingfor yournumbersand
set.thespace-widthto 15.
Proportional spacing offset
If you areprintingwithproportionalspacingyou can actuallycontrolthe
oflset,or amountof spaceinsertedbetweencharacters.For instance,you
mightwanttojustifya lineof printyourself.
With the Spacing Offset command you can change the distance each
characteradvancesin incrementsof 1/120thinch.The printercancelsthis
commandwhenit receivesa carriagereturn,<ESC>X or anotheroffset
command.Thatmeansthiscommandis effectivejust onelineat a time.
To adjusttheoffset,sendthiscommand:
<ESC><DC1>n
For n youentera figurethatsetsthenumberof l/120-inchincrementsby
whichspacingis to change.To increasecharacterspacing,for n youjust
enterthenumberofincrements,fromOto63.Toshowyouwanttodecrease
characterspacing,you add 64 to the numberof incrementsyou want to
subtract.
For example,the command<ESC><DC1> 67 will decreasethe space
betweencharactersby 3/120inch,because3 plus64 equals67.
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