Star Micronics LC-200 user manual Definedraft downloadcharacters, Download Character Commands

!

DOWNLOAD CHARACTER COMMANDS

Definedraft downloadcharacters

Mode	ASCII			Decimal			Hexadecimal
	<ESC> “&” cO> nl			27	38	0 nl	IB	26	00 nl
std.	.n2	mO ml	m2	d	mO ml d		d	mO ml d
		d	mll		d	mll		d	... mll

Definesone or morenew draftcharactersand storesthemin RAM forlateruse. EDSswitchA-2mustbe OFF;otherwiseRAMis used as an input buffer,not for downloadingcharacters,and this com- mandis ignored.Draftmodemustbe selectedbeforethiscommand is executed.

nl is the charactercodeof the first characterdefinedand n2 is the charactercodeof the last characterdefined.n] mustbe equalto or lessthann2.Useofcharactercodes32(space)and 127(deletecode) shouldbe avoidedif possible.

Eachcharacterisdefinedby anattributebyte(rnO)and 11databytes (ml, m2, ..... roll).

The most significantbit of the attributebyteis 1 if the characteris an ascender(positionedentirelyabovethe baseline)or Oif it is a descender(descendingbelowthe baseline).The attributebyte also indicatesthe amountof whitespaceto theleft of the character(Oto 7 dots, specifiedby bits4 to 6), and the widthof the charactercell, includingthis space(4 to 15dots,specifiedby bitsOto 3). The left spaceandcellwidthattributesareusedonlyinproportionalspacing. Eachdatabyteindicateseightverticaldots,withtheMSBbeingthe top dot and the LSB the bottomdot. Thesecorrespondto pins 1to 8 or 2 to 9 of the printhead,dependingon whetherthe characteris an ascenderor descender.

For furtherdetails,pleaserefer to the Chapter5.

70