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The minimumwidthof a characteris five dots.
The user-definedcharactersmay use eightdots vertically.
Dots cannotoverlap— that is, youmay not have a dot insidea box next
to one that is on a line.
You may define any positionin the ASCIItable.
PhotocopythegridinFigure5-2tohelpdesignyournewcharacters.Wewill
use a tiny representationof a car-shapedsymbolfor our example.
ASCII Code:
Descender:
Left
spxc:
Lwt column:
mo = Descender x 128
+ (Left x 16)
+ Last
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Figure
5-2.
Use
this grid (or one similar to it) to define your own draft characters
Definingthe attributedata
Beforeyoustartthedefinition,you willneedto decideexactlywherein the
regularASCIIsetyouwanttoplaceyourcharacters. A ftcrdownloading, y ou
access your new character by sending the code for the character you
replaced.
Next you must choose whetherto make the car symbol an ascenderor a
descender.This determineshow the characteris seatedon the line:
Asce rider : ';:::.!:::
pe~ce ~der : :':"l:,:.:
::;:
Wedecidedthatourcar symbolwillnot be a "descender", s o a figure" 1"is
writtennextto Descenderon thegrid.If yourcharacteris a descender,write
a "O"next to Descender.
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