Downloadable and Custom Commands
After defining a download character, we must activate the download characters in the printer. The code to perform this trick is:
CHR$(27) CHR$(36) CHR$(l)
let’s put all this together in an example and print out a few of our new paragraph symbols.
Figure 8-2. Program listing to print: :/‘9‘1is,;I!‘CT,
Not too bad for the first try. Let’s create another symbol to keep the editors happy and to demonstrate a few more things you’ll need to know about downloadable characters. This time we will create the copyright symbol; a small c with a circle around it. First, we’ll create the symbol on graph paper and total all the col- umns as we did for the paragraph symbols.
Figure 8-3. Do wnloadable design for copyright symbol.
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