Parts User Manual

Chapter

Page Formatting

Although the LX-90 printer has many sophisticated commands to

set margins, line spacing, and horizontal and vertical tabs, this chap-

ter won’t take up your time with extensive discussions of these because

most are taken care of by applications programs. Instead, this chapter

describes a few commands that the average user might need. For more

information, see Appendixes B and C, where all the commands are

listed and described.

Margins

The LX-90 allows you to set the left and right margins with simple

ESCape sequences. The left margin command is ESCape “1" followed

by the number of the column you choose for the left margin. The right

margin command is ESCape “Q” followed by the column number of

the right margin you want. For the left margin command, be sure to

use a lowercase letter l, not the numeral one.

If your word processing program does not allow you to change the

margins, you can send margin commands to your LX-90 with BASIC

or another programming language before you print your documents.

For example, if you prefer wider margins than your word processing

program gives you, run the following BASIC program before print-

ing. This program gives you a left margin location of 5 and a right

margin location of 70, but you can use any numbers you prefer for the

margin commands.

NEW

PRINT CHR$(4);"PR#1"

10 PRINT CHR$(27);"1";CHR$(5);

20 PRINT CHR$(27);"Q";CHR$(70);

300 PRINT CHR$(4);"PR#0"