Star Micronics Delta Defining Your Own Characters, Rule I Download characters are seven dots high

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Defining Your Own Characters

You’ve seen how the engineers at Star designed their charac- ters by using a grid to lay out the dots. Now you can define charac- ters exactly the same way. Make up some grids (photocopy Figure 7-4 if you wish) and get ready to be creative! (Just in case you are not feeling creative, and to make our explanations a little clearer, we’ll be using a heart as an example of a download character. You can see how we’ve laid it out in Figure 7-5. You’ll find this espe- cially useful if you’ve always wanted to write a bridge column like Charles Goren.)

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Figure 7-4. Use this grid (or one similar to it) to define your own characters.

You’ll notice that Figure 7-4 includes a lot of information around the grid. Don’t be intimidated; we’ll explain each item as we come to it in our discussion of defining and actually printing download characters. You may have noticed another difference between this grid and the one shown in Figure 7-3: it’s only seven boxes high. Which leads us to. . .

Rule I: Download characters are seven dots high

As you noticed in Figure 7-2, capital letters, most lowercase

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Contents Delta User’s Manual @Copyright 1983 Star Micronics, Inc Special Message to the New Owner Delta User’s Manual Table of Contents Formatting Your Output Special Features Delta PrinterCreating Your Own Characters Getting It All Together Maintenance Appendix E Osborne, Kaypro and CP/M Computers Appendix D TRS-60 ComputersAppendix F Atari 400/800 Computers Appendix DIP Switch Settings Appendix Character Style ChartsAppendix Commodore VIC-20 Computers AppendixConsumer Response 309 DIP Switch Quick Reference Warranty Inside Back Cover Command Quick ReferenceDelta User’s Manual Serial busy protocols XONlXOFF Protocol ACK protocol IndexTables Xii Delta User’s Manual Closer Look Paper separator and paper guide used with roll paper Roll paper holder and holder shaft used only with rollPage Parallel interface connector the place where you hook Paper Selection and LoadingLoading single sheets Delta User’s Manual Loading roll paper Delta User’s Manual Closer Look Loading sprocket-feed paperOpen the tractor covers to expose the sprocket teeth Bottom feeding Delta-15 Figure I-10.Delta ready to run with sprocket-feed paperDelta User’s Manual Ribbon Installation Self-Test Closer Look Delta User’s Manual Getting Started With Delta Using Commercial Sojtware Getting Started With Delta First, some terminologyAscii Using Delta with SuperCalc Using Delta with word processorsPage Using this book without learning Basic Getting Started With DeltaOPEN4,4 CMD4 List PRINT#4 CLOSE4 ListEstablishing communications NEW Lprint Testing RUN NEWNEW LPRINTCHR$7 RUN CHR$ functionNEW LPRINTCHR$27CHR$52 2$3LPRINT Testing RUN Escape CodeSome problem codes ESC$=CHR$27 l@ LPRINTESC$Delta User’s Manual Printing Text With Delta ChapterPrint pitch Commands @ Lprint this is Elite Pitch PrintingLprint Condensedis the Narrowestpitch Lprint NOW WE are Back to Pica Pitch PrintingLPRINTCHR$27W CHR$@NOW Were Back to Normal Expanded printI s H153Print Commands LPRINTCHR$14EXPANDEDELITE PitchLprint NOW WE are Back to Unexpandedpica Printing Making Delta print darkerPrint EmDhasis a Commands Lprint this is DOUBLE-STRIKEPRINTINGItalic Commands Italic printingUnderJining Superscripts and subscriptsNEW Lprint Thisline Uses Superscript Subscript commandsMixing modes Build Instructionset LPRINTRESET.ALL$ Lprintelites Elite LPRINTPICA$ Pica LPRINTRESET.ALL$ ReturnREGULAR.HEADING$= STRING$27,*+ Regular ReturnItalics = False LPRINTROMAN$ Repeatwith ItalicsIf Pica = False then LPRINTFOUR.DOT$ GOTO3590 If ENLARGED= True then LprintHere is the chart it produces Control Code FunctionPage Delta User’s Manual Line Spacing and Forms Control Changing Line Spacing This is what you will get Line spacing Commands Run the program again. Now the results will look like thisNEW Lprint Linenumber Moving down the page without a carriage returnForms Controls Form feedForm length commands Changing the Page LengthTop and bottom margin commands Lprint PAY to the OrderLineSpacingandFormsControl51 Summary Control codeESC Delta User’s Manual Formatting Your Output NEW Lprint ONECHR$9TWOCHR$9THREE CHR$9 Four One-shot tab command Left and right margin commands5B END 13@ Lprint ReturnLPRINTCHR$27P CHR$l@ CHR$Z@CHR$@ One-shot vertical tab command Control Code FunctionLChapter Now hear thisBell commands Initializing DeltaSome Miscellaneous commands Putting Delta to sleepPrinting to the bottom of the sheet Unidirectional printingNext Lprint LprintPrinting Direction NEW Lprint Backspacedoes not Lprint I===WORK Lprint Deletedoes notLprint Work Backspace and deleteBlock graphics characters and special symbols Eighth Bit controls3pl Lprint I II=11CHR$ICHR$9 4pI Next I Lprint Next J International character sets International Character set commandsMacro control code Macro instruction Commands Startdefinition Macro Lprint CHR$18 PicaOFF Regularprint END MacroFunction Bell Disable bell Enable bell Reset Off-lineOn-line Control codeDelta User’s Manual Creating Your Own Characters Dot Matrix Printing 000 0 eeeS&fee Defining Your Own Characters Rule I Download characters are seven dots highRule 2 Dots cannot overlap 8WRONG Add up each column of dotsCreating YourOwn Characters Download character definition command Assigning a value to your characterCharacter designs for the four card suits Next M Figure Y-10. The attribute byte n2 for our heart characterPrinting Download Characters LPRINTCHR$27CHR$36CHR$@ DEFINTA-Z Read X LPRINTCHR$X Next JNext Lprint Return DECKCARD=X Next Card ReturnLPRINTSUIT$SUIT Download Character dejfinition commands Proportkmal Characters12@ Lprint CHR$BITS 138 Next Only Difference Is the way They Are Accessed Creating Your Own Characters Lprint DEF.DOWN.CHAR$ NUMERAL.BOT$NUM= CHR$ASCII+ 2 + CHR$ASCII+ Mixing Print Modes with Download Characters Utility Program Gosub 950RETURN Gosub 660 Return REM **** Display Menu for Edit Mode Summary