I'm thinking about the possibilities that LPT & LPB offers and I wonder if while a LPB is being processed, Nick can be fooled to fetch bytes every n RAM addresses. I mean, defining a constant module to add after every fetch operation tu use instead the usual +1.
Looking at the LPB definition, seems that there's no way to accomplish that and the bytes used in the scanline are always stored in a linear fashion in memory.

Indeed, in fact I was thinking in machines like the MSX or even the PCW.

Looks like text modes (both hardware & software) have similarities: ASCII map + character definition; but they lack colour and have some other quirks. Oh life!