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Delta User’s Munual
If you have a y-bit interface, add the following lines to the
program given above.
5 LPRINT CHR$(27) ")";
70 LPRINT CHR$(27) "=";
In this program line 10 sets the line spacing to 6 dots which is
the height of the graphics characters. Then lines 20-50 print the
figure, and line 60 resets the line spacing to l/6 inch. Here is what
this program prints:
International character sets
Delta is a multi-lingual printer for it can speak in eight lan-
guages! Delta changes languages by changing 11 characters that
are different for the different languages. These sets of characters
are called international character sets. The control codes to select
the international character sets are given in the following table.
Table 6-5
International character set commands
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Country
U.S.A.
England
Germany
Denmark
France
Sweden
Italy
Spain
Control code
(ESC) “7” CHR$(O)
(ESC) “7” CHR$(l)
(ESC) “7” CHR$(2)
(ESC) “7” CHR$(3)
(ESC) “7” CHR$(4)
(ESC > “7” CHR$(5)
(ESC) “7” CHR$(G)
(ESC) “7” CHR$(7)
The characters that change are shown in Table 6-6.
The macro control code
The last of our group of miscellaneous control codes is defini-
tely not the least. It is a user-defined control code, called a macro
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