Epson LX-90TM Manuale Utente

Now that you see how to use the ESCape sequences for superscript

and subscript, you can devise your own examples.

International Characters

As you know, languages other than English require a few extra

characters. The LX-90 has provided for printing in many languages by

having nearly

100

international characters in its ROM (Read Only

Memory). This total includes characters in three sets: draft, draft

italic, and NLQ (Near Letter Quality).

In order to print any of these characters, you first select one of the

following character sets and then use the individual characters within

that set.

0 USA

6 Italy

France

7 Spain

Germany

8 Japan

3 United Kingdom

Norway

4 Denmark I

Denmark II

Sweden

You select the character set in one of two ways: with an ESCape

code or with a DIP switch. The ESCape code in BASIC has the follow-

ing format:

LPRINT CHR$(27);"R";CHR$(n)

in which n represents the appropriate number from the list above. In

other words, the BASIC command to select the French character set is

LPRINT CHR$(27);"R";CHR$(l)

The other method of selecting an international character set is to

reset a DIP switch. If you plan to use one of the international sets quite

a bit, see Appendix D for instructions for using the DIP switches.

Once you have selected a character set, whether you do it with the

ESCape code or the DIP switches, you will be able to print several new

characters. The character sets are shown in Tables

5-1, 5-2,

and

5-3.