Star Micronics LC-15 user manual Definingthe attributedata

. The minimumwidthof a characteris five dots.

●The user-definedcharactersmay use eightdots vertically.

●Dotscannotoverlap— that is, you may not have a dot insidea box next to one that is on a line.

●YoumaydefineanypositionintheASCIItable,excepttheblockgraphics area when you are downloadingin the IBM mode.

PhotocopythegridinFigure5-2tohelpdesignyournewcharacters.Wewill use a tiny representationof a car-shapedsymbolfor our example.

rnl m3 m5 rrr7 m9 ml			I
m2 m4	m6	m8 m10
128
64			ASCII	Code:
			Descender:
32			Left space:
			Last column:
16			mO = Descender		x 128
8			+	(Left x	16)
			+	Last
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2
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Figure S2 Use this grid (or one similar to it) to define your own draft characters

Definingthe attributedata

Beforeyoustartthedefinition,you willneedto decideexactlywherein the regularASCIIsetyouwanttoplaceyourcharacters.Afterdownloading,you access your new character by sending the code for the character you replaced.

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