Re: DCPS and 132 listings

From: JF Mezei (jfmezei.spamnot_at_teksavvy.com)
Date: 11/04/05 

Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 07:40:25 -0500

Perhaps you need to look at a different escape sequence.

Looking at my old LN03 manual:

<ESC> ; sets it to 134 characters per line, 64 lines per page, 13.04
characters per inch 8.33 lines per inch.

<ESC> : gives 123 chartacters per line.

(I think the above applies only to Tektronix mode).

<CSI>7 SP C

(CSI seven, space, uppercase C would set the current font at a 7
point size.

You can also modify height and width with:

CSI pn1 ; pn2 SP B

pn1 is percentage of height, pn2 is percentage of width of the font.

So you could have CSI 100;60 B
which would make characters 60% of the width of the original, but 100 of
the original height.

Just did a test:

100;60- yields about 96 characters per line. characters seem just a tad
less tall.

70;40 yields 109 characters per line, and the characters are noticeably
smaller in height as well. Very readable and good spacing between
characters (but they are small).

70;20 yields the same output.

So does 50;20

I would have to dig deeper into the LN03 programming manual to find
other potential escape sequence and test to see how DCPS handles them.

I only tried the CSI pn1;pn2 B sequence above. You may with to
experiment with the others.

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