Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!apple!lemke
From: lemke@Apple.COM (Steve Lemke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Setting horizontal tabs on ImageWriter II
Message-ID: <15190@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 5 Aug 88 01:35:28 GMT
References: <459@uvicctr.UUCP>
Reply-To: lemke@apple.apple.com.UUCP (Steve Lemke)
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <459@uvicctr.UUCP> dtsai@uvicctr.UUCP (David Tsai) writes:
>Hi netlanders:
>	I am trying to print VMS/VAX text files through a MAC SE 
>running the MAC 240 emulator to an ImageWriter II on a Apple Talk network.
>My problem is that I cannot set the tab stops on the ImageWriter. 
>( I have no problems with selecting fonts or type size using escape sequences.)
>I have tried the following escape sequences but nothing worked.
>
>	esc(9,15,..,125.
>	esc(9,15,..,125,.
>	esc(,9,15,..,125,.
>	esc(,9,15,..,125.
>
>Function		Keystrokes			Code
>Set horizontal tabs	ESCAPE(a,b,n,...,.		27 40,n,n,n,...,46
>			abn = column number through nth column
>
>What is wrong with my escape sequence?  Any help is much appreciated.

I'm not sure about this, but you might try esc( followed by actual ASCII
characters with the code of the desired tabstop, as in "esc(abc" where "a"
"b" and "c" (actually, their ascii codes) represent the desired positions.

Steve Lemke (apple!lemke, lemke@apple.com)