(Windows only) This command was originally made obsolete by the FONTHEIGHT command, but in response to complaints about the difficulty of finding a suitable FONTHEIGHT value, PITCH has been resurrected (in version 4.6) with a new AUTO setting:

PITCH = AUTO

This option greatly simplifies the task of selecting a suitable font size by automatically calculating the proper font height and width parameters necessary to fit the desired number of rows (set by LPP, with a default of 66) and columns (set by CPP, with a default of 80) on the current page size and orientation. In addition, if it detects that any of the first 100 lines of the print file exceed the CPP (columns per age) value, then it automatically switches instead to a font suitable for the number of columns specified in the second parameter to the CPP command (defaulting to 132 if not specified). Thus, this one setting can eliminate a lot of complications relating to establishing the proper font size.

Prior to Build 776, trailing blanks were included in the length of the first 15 print lines used to determine if we needed to switch to the condensed font. As of Build 776 the trailing blanks are now ignored.