Star Micronics NX-1000 manual Appendix, Draft character

Appendix	c	DO W/i/LOAD
	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 throughcomplex 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 ( r> ) and near-letter-quality character ( & ) is explained below.

Draft character

I

ml m? m3 m4 m5 m6 m7 m8 m9mlOmll

ASCII Code 33

DescenderI

Start column 0

End column I I

mO = Descender x 128 + (Start x 16)

f End

Dot

data 124 0 66 4 64 36 16 2 16 12 0

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Figure C-1. Car symbol, drafl quality

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