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Gemini User’s Manual

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Figure 3-4.	The Self-Test	prints the uppercase alphabet	in the first
line, 10 characters per inch. In Chapter 5, you’ll learn how to print larger
and smaller	letters (from 5 to	17 characters per inch).	-

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In Figure 3-4,the characters coded “a”and “c”are “brackets:’
These are sometimes used in the same manner as parentheses.								_
The character			coded “b”is a “reverseslash”		- the mirror-image
of the “slash” in Figure 3-3.The next character, “* :’ is a compute
symbol	for depressing the “control key” on your keyboard. It can-							-
also be used for a circumflex or exponentiation. Completing this
set of characters, the character coded “e”is the “underlining”							for	-
a single character, and “f” represents the “opening single
quotation”		mark.
In Figure 35, the “lowercase” equivalents of the “uppercase”
letters	in	Figure 3-4 are presented.		These	letters	are also	10	.~
characters per inch (CPI) in the Self-Test. Following the lowercase
letters in this figure are four characters coded “a”through “dl’The
first and		third	are “braces:’ which	provide	an alternative		to	-
parentheses and brackets, especially in grouping mathematical
terms. The symbol coded “b” is a special scientific						symbol,	to	-
which you may assign meaning according to its use. Finally, the								-
character		marked “d” is the tilde sign or diacritical				mark.

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