*..

L.

The attribute byte m2 gives proportional-spacing information. Bit 7 is ignored. Bits 4 to 6 specify the offset to the first byte printed (0 to 7). enabling leading spaces in the character to be ignored. Bits 0 to 3 specify the width of the character cell (maximum 11 dots). The character will be followed by a mandatory blank dot column which is not included in this width.

Characters defined by this command can be selected by <ES0 “I” 4 or <ESC> “I” 5.

Define NLQ download characters

Mode ASCIIDecimalHexadecimal

 

cESC> “=”

nl

n2

 

27 61 nl

n2

10 3D nl

n2

IBM

<NAK>mO,

 

ml

m2

21 m0

ml

m2

15 m0

ml

m2

 

dl

d2

..,

d46

dl d2

...d46

dl d2

...d46

Defines one or more new NLQ characters and stores them in RAM for1ateruse.Memot-y Switchmustbesetto”DOWNLOAD”, andNLQ mode must be selected before this command is executed.

The parameters are the same as for the draft download command except that the dot density is doubled in each direction, so each character consists of 16 dots vertically and 23 dots horizontally and requires 46 data bytes.

Characters defined by this command can be selected by <ESC> “I”

7.

Copy character set from ROM into RAM

IMode

1

ASCII

 

1 Decimal

I Hexadecimal

1

1 Std.

1

<ESC> ‘Y <O> n

<o>

1 27 58 0 n

0 1 10 3A 00 n

00 I

Copies the selected, character set with n, as shown below, to the corresponding download character RAM area, overwriting any download data already present, Ignored when Memory Switch is not

set to “DOWNLOAD”.

n

Font

n

Font

0

TmsRomn

4

script

1

Sanserif

7

Orator

2

Courier

12

Helvet

3Prestige

95

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