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Theminimumwidth ofacharacteris five dots.
Theuser-definedcharactersmayuse eightdots vertically.
Dotscannotoverlap—thatis, you maynot haveadot insideabox next
toone that ison aline.
Youmay defineany positionin theASCII table.
PhotocopythegridinFigure5-2tohelpdesignyournewcharacters.Wewill
useatiny representationofacar-shapedsymbolfor ourexample.
ASCIICode:
Descender:
Left spxc:
Lwt column:
mo=Descender x 128
+(Leftx16)
+Last
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Figure 5-2. Usethis grid (or one similar to it) to define your own draft characters
Definingthe attributedata
Beforeyoustartthe definition,youwillneedto decideexactlywhereinthe
regularASCIIsetyouwanttoplaceyourcharacters.Aftcrdownloading,you
access your new characterby sending the code for the character you
replaced.
Nextyou must choose whetherto makethe car symbol an ascenderor a
descender.Thisdetermineshowthe characteris seatedon theline:
Asce rider :‘;:::.!::: pe~ce ~der ::’:”l:,:.:::;:
Wedecidedthatourcar symbolwillnotbe a“descender”,soafigure”1“ is
writtennexttoDescenderonthegrid. Ifyourcharacteris adescender,write
a“O”nextto Descender.
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