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October 1998, Week 5

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Shawn Gordon writes:

>I can't find any doc, and I want to put a PCL escape sequence in my report
>to go into landscape and pitch 13ish.  I got the landscape working, but
>can't seem to get the pitch right.

Switch the HMI using the sequence

   <esc>&k9H

where the parameter (9) is the distance to move with each character, in
120ths of an inch. Of course, this works only for fixed-pitch fonts.

-- Bruce


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