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From: danny burstein
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 00:56

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In <87d1024...@usenet.ankman.de> Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> writes:

>I seem to recall some newer fully formed character printers could do bold
>by movie the paper just a little but and print the same character
>"almost" over itself again. Didn't some matrix printers employed this
>method too to print bold if their character set wasn't made up for this?

Available in the Decwriter II.

We used one with a TRS-80, and I still remember
some of the codes:

"Escape", aka chr$(27), then "B" chr$(66) for Bold...

other options included underscore, shrunken text, 
and I think italics, too.

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