Upper and lower case – Epson HX-20 User Manual

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Eventually, you’ll want to stop inserting text. To exit from insert

mode, hold down a

key and tap

Or press any

cursor key. Either action will take the HX-20 out of insert mode.
Upper

So far, you’ve only typed UPPER CASE LETTERS on the virtual
screen. But with the screen editor, you can type lower case letters,
too.

To explore the use of upper and lower case letters, begin by

clearing the screen. This will give you a clean slate, making it easy
for you to pay close attention to the letters you will type.

When you first enter the screen editor, it is in upper case mode.

When you press a letter key, you will see the corresponding UPPER

CASE letter on the screen. For example, press the

key. An

UPPER CASE “A” will appear on the screen:

When the screen editor is in upper case mode, you can use the

SHIFT key to produce lower case letters. To see how this works,

press the

key while you are holding down

You’ll

place a lower case “a” on the screen:

If you are accustomed to using a typewriter, this behavior may

strike you as “backwards.” After all, when you use a typewriter, you

get lower case letters as a matter of course, and upper case letters

only when you use a

key.

To make the screen editor handle the

key just like a type-

writer, put the screen editor into lower case mode, by pressing this
key:

The screen editor is now in lower case mode, as you can

demonstrate by pressing the

key. (Leave your fingers off

the

keys when you press “H.“) A lower case “h” will appear on

the screen: