Tally Genicom Matrix Printer - Manual (Page 76)

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Line Spacing and Intercharacter Spacing - 270o
If you print sideways text, then the vertical move that otherwise corresponded to a line feed now
sets the distance from the leading edge of one character cell to the leading edge of the next
character cell (as you read the characters). A good starting value for this move is the character
cell width, which is 0.6 decipoints times the horizontal expansion factor.
Strings of sideways characters propagate left-to-right across the portrait page. The printer makes
“ line feeds” for you by inserting space between the trailing cell boundary of the previous
character and the leading cell boundary of the next character. This space is 0.36 decipoints times
the vertical expansion factor, which is generous line spacing.
If this line spacing is not satisfactory, then send sideways text one character at a time, preceded
by a locating command for each character. If you use the resident line spacing for sideways lines,
then you will probably use a character array to rotate text. In that case, remember to fill your array
with space characters (20 hex) before you copy strings into it.