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Theminimumwidthof a characteris five dots.
Theuser-definedcharactersmayuseeightdotsvertically.
Dotscannotoverlap— thatis, youmaynothavea dotinsideaboxnext
to onethatis on a line.
Youmay defineanypositionintheASCIItable.
PhotocopythegridinFigure5-2tohelpdesignyournewcharacters.Wewill
use a tiny representationof a car-shapedsymbolforour example.
ASCII Code:
Descender:
Left
spxc:
Lwt column:
mo= Descender x 128
+ (Left x 16)
+ Last
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5-2. Usethis grid (or one similar to it) to define your own draft characters
Definingthe attributedata
Beforeyoustartthedefinition,youwillneedtodecideexactlywherein the
regularASCIIsetyouwanttoplaceyourcharacters.Aftcrdownloading,you
access your new characterby sending the code for the character you
replaced.
Next youmust choosewhetherto makethe car symbolan ascenderor a
descender.Thisdetermineshowthecharacteris seatedon theline:
Asce rider : ‘;:::.!:::
pe~ce ~der : :’:”l:,:.:::;:
Wedecidedthatourcarsymbolwillnotbea“descender”,so afigure”1“is
writtennexttoDescenderonthegrid.Ifyourcharacterisadescender,write
a “O”nextto Descender.
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