User`s manual

Master Select

The LX-90 has a special ESCape code called Master Select that

allows you to choose any possible combination of seven different

modes: pica, elite, compressed, emphasized, double-strike, expanded,

and italic. The format of the Master Select code is ESCape ‘!” followed

by a number that is calculated by adding together the values of the

modes listed below:

italic

expanded

double-strike

emphasized

compressed

elite

pica

For any combination, just add up the values of each of the modes

you want and use the total as the number after ESCape “!“. For exam-

ple, to calculate the code for expanded underlined pica, add the fol-

lowing numbers together:

italic

expanded

pica

To print this combination, therefore, you use ESCape “!” followed

by the number 96. In the BASIC programming language the com-

mand is CHR$(27)“!“CHR$(96).

To try this number or any other, enter and run this short program,

which will ask you for a Master Select number and then give you a

sample of printing using that code.

10 INPUT "Master Select number";M

20 PRINT CHR$(4);"PR#l"

30 PRINT CHR$(27);"!";CHR$(M)

PRINT "This sample of printing uses"

50 PRINT "Master Select number";M

PRINT CHR$(27);"@"

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

Here is part of a sample using Master Select number 96:

mple of printing uses

Select number 96