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76 Delta User’s Manual
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.)
1 n, =
2 Descender
4 Width
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16 n2 = Descender l 16 + Width
32 Format:
Esc*ln,n,m, m,,
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Total
Figure 7-4. Use this grid (or one similar to it) to define your own characters.
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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
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