Star Micronics NX-1020 User Manual page 79

Define NLQ download characters
Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal
cESC> "&I' CO> nl
27
38 0 nl
18 26 00
nl
Std.
n2
a0 al a2 n2 a0 al a2 d? a0 al a2
ml m2 . . . m69 ml m2 . ..m49 ml m2 . ..m49
Defines one or more new NLQ characters and stores them in RAM
for later use. EDS switch A-2 must be OFF. NLQ mode must be se-
lected before this command is executed. The parameters are differ-
ent from the draft character command. a0 specifies the left space, al
specifies the character width, and a2 specifies the right space.
The dot density is doubled in each direction, so each character
consists of 18 dots vertically and 23 dots horizontally and requires
69 data bytes. Since the vertical definition of the character is 18 dots,
each byte represents a third of vertical definition.
For details, please refer to Chapter 5.
Define draft download characters
Mode
ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal
<ESC> "=" nl
n2 <Dc4> 27 61
nl
n2 20 1B 3D
nl n2
14
IBM a0
al a2 ml a0 al a2 ml a0 al a2 ml
m2 . . . ml1 m2 . . . ml1 m2 . . . ml1
Defines one or more new draft characters and stores them in RAM
for later use. Draft mode must be selected before this command is
executed.
nZ
and
n2
give the number of bytes of character data that
will follow. a0 is the character code of the first character defined. al
and a2 are attributes bytes.
ml
to
ml 1
are the character data, and are
the same as in <ESC> "W. The attribute byte al indicates whether
the character is an ascender (not using the lowest of the nine vertical
dots) or a descender (not using the highest dot) and whether it has
a downward extension to 12 dots.
The attribute byte a2 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 &SC> "I"
4 or <ESC> "I" 5. This command is ignored when EDS switch
A-2 is ON.
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