Download Character Commands - Star Micronics LC24-200 Colour User Manual

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DOWNLOAD CHARACTER COMMANDS
Define download characters
Mode ASCII
Decimal
Hexadecimal
<ESC> "&" <O>
nl 27 38 0 n]
IB 26 00
nl
Std.
n2 mO ml m2 n2 mO ml m2 n2 mo ml m2
dl d2 .. & dl d2 ... (ix dl d2 . . dx
Definesone or more new charactersand stores them in RAM for
later use.EDS switchA-2mustbe OFF;otherwiseRAMis used as
an inputbuffer,not downloadingcharacters,and this commandis
ignored.
nl is the charactercodeof the first characterdefinedand n2 is the
charactercodeof the last characterdefined.nl mustbe equalto or
less than n2.
Thedatafor eachcharacterstartwiththreebytesspecifyingpropor-
tional spacingattributes:the first byte,mO,specifiesthe left of the
character;the secondbyte, ml, specifiesthe characterwidth; the
third byte, m2, specifiesthe right of the character.These values
must not exceedthe followingmaximumlimits:
Charactermode ml mO+ ml + m2
Draft 9 12
,LQ pica
31 36
LQ elite 27 30
L~ semi-condensed 19 24
3
LQ proportional 37
42
Draft super/subscript 7 12
LQ sup;r/subscript-
19
36
LQ prop. super/subscriptI 37
42
Nextcomesthedotdata.Normalcharacterheightis24 dots,sothere
mustbe 3 x ml bytesof dotdata.If the printeris in super/subscript
mode,however,the characterheightis 16dots, so theremust be
2
x
ml bytes of dot data.
Each data byte indicateseightverticaldots, with the most signifi-
cant bit being the top dot, and the least significantbit being the
bottomdot.
For furtherdetails,pleaserefer to chapter5.
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