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Figure 9-12.These download characters are defined as proportional characters.

attribute byte, m0. As you know, the first bit of m0 is used to specify whether the character is a descender or ‘not. The next three bits are used to specify the starting print column (acceptable values are 0 to 7). The last four bits specify the ending print column (acceptable values are 4 to 11). The minimum character width is five dots (so you could not, for instance, specify a starting column of 6 and an ending column of 8, even though those are both within the acceptable range). If you inadvertantly give an incorrect width value, however, SG-IO/15 is forgiving: it will automatically revert to the default width of eleven dot columns.

Just as there was an easy trick for figuring the attribute byte earlier, you still don’t need to know a thing about binary arithmetic. Merely multiply the starting column by 16, add the ending column number, and add 128 if the character is not a descender. If you prefer a formula: (descender * 128) + (start * 16) + end.

The examples in Figure 9-12 show characters of different widths. These characters are defined in the program below; the output is shown in Figure 9-13.

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SG-10, SG-15 specifications

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