characters and regular characters is that they are smaller. They are a maximum of 16 dots high and their width in dot columns is shown in Table 6-4.

Table 6-4. Super/subscript widths

 

d1

d0 + dl + d2

 

(maximum)

(maximum)

 

 

 

Draft

7

12

Letter Quality

23

36

Proportional

23

42

 

 

 

Since super/subscript characters are smaller, they don’t require as much information when you define them. When you define super/ subscript characters, you need only two bytes of data for each vertical row of dots. Design grids for these characters are shown in Figure 6-8.

 

Letter Quality

Draft pica

and Proportional

Figure 6-8. Grids for super/subscript charactersMixing print styles

Each of the three user-defined character modes (draft, Letter Qual- ity, and proportional) can be used in combination with most of the LQ’s various print styles. For instance, emphasized works with user- defined characters. The characters you design are enhanced to give this printing effect.

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