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The minimumwidthof a characteris five dots.

The user-definedcharactersmay use eightdots vertically.

wDots cannotoverlap— that is, youmay not have a dot insidea box next to one that is on a line.

You may defineany positionin the ASCIItable.

PhotocopythegridinFigure5-2tohelpdesignyournewcharacters.Wewill use a tiny-rep=sentationof a car-shapedsymbolfor our example.

ml m3 ti

m7 m9 mll

m2 m4 m6 m8 m10

]~g

 

64

ASCII Code:

Descender:

 

32

Left space:

16

Last column:

mO= Descender x 128

+ (Left x 16)

8

+ Last

 

4

 

2

1

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Flgutw5-2Usethisgrid(oronesimilarto it)to defineyourowndraftcharacters

Definingthe attributedata

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

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