Star Micronics lC-10 user manual Appendixc Download, Draft character

Appendixc DOWNLOAD

CHARACTER GENERATOR

With this printer you can create new characters and symbols, download their dot data, and have them printed in place of selected characters in the regular character set. Characters that can be generated in this way range from simple but useful symbols like the check mark through complex Chinese or Japanese characters.

The process of designing new characters with paper and pencil is somewhat time-consuming. The program listed in this appendix enables you to do everything on the computer screen. It also enables you to maintain disk files of character data for downloading when required.

The creation of a car-shaped symbol as a draft character ( 15 ) and near-letter-quality character ( 6 ) is explained below.

Draft character

1

	ml m? m3 m4 m5 m6 m7 m8 m9 ml0 ml1
128											ASCII	Code		33
64											Descender			I
											Start	column		0
32											End column			I I
16											m0 =	Descender		x 128
												+	(Start x	16)
8												+	End
4
2
		II	I		III1				III
1
Dot
data	124	0	66	4	64	36	16	2	I6	12	0

Figure C-l. Car symbol, draft quality

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