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- T H E M A G I C M A R Q U E E
- BY GEORGE STEWARD
-
- POPULAR COMPUTING NOV. 84, PROGRAM FACTORY
-
- EDITED BY M. SKAL, 9/27/84
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-
- The MAGIC MARQUEE or MAGIC for short is a program to print large
- letters, the type of characters you may have seen on computer
- printouts like the date in 2 inch letters across the page.
-
- MAGIC gives your computer the ability to print or display letters
- up to 10 inches high and 5 inches wide. The program can also be
- used to have a message scroll continously on the screen.
-
- The program assembles the large letters using the standard
- letters of your computer or printer, i.e. if you have a
- daisy-wheeler you can also print large characters now! Well, not
- quite the same as a dot-matrix but large characters just the same.
-
- The program promts initially for the horizontal and vertical
- factors for the characters to be printed. The smallest size
- character is 5 columns by 7 lines, the largest is 50 col. by 70
- lines!!!
-
- You can choose the typed characters that are used to make up the large
- characters. In UNIFORM-character-density the big characters are
- filled all with the same character (uniform density) in this case
- '@'. The uniform fill-character is defined in the program in line
- 110. It can be changed by redefining UD$ in line 110 with the
- character of your choice, or if you want to change often add
- a small routine to change the fill-character from the condole
- during a run.
-
- If you choose VARIABLE-density, then each large characters is
- filled with the character that is beeing built. I.e. in the
- message the character K forinstance is composed of regular K's,
- the letter A of regular A's etc.
-
- After each new set of size specifications the program will
- generate and load a new characterset with the new specs. This
- procedure takes quite some time, more the larger the characters
- to be built.
-
- The output options are self prompting.
-
- Output to disk is useful for incorporating large characters into
- wordprocessor documents, see below. You could print a whole
- alphabet to file and then pick the characters into the document
- through something like dual window editing.
-
-
- One word of caution: make sure you specify the proper width of
- your terminal or printer, if you specify more than you have the
- characters may come out not recognizable at all. Remember on an
- 80 col. terminal the last col. is 79, on an 135 col. printer it
- is 134 etc.
-
- Here are some examples:
-
- 1. Horiz.=1, Vert.=1, Dens.=1 (up to 13 char./line)
-
- @ @ @ @ @ @@@@ @@@@ @@@
- @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @
- @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @
- @@ @@@@@ @ @@@@ @@@@ @ @
- @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @
- @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @
- @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @@@
-
-
- 2. Horiz.=2, Vert.=2, Dens.=1 (up to 6 char./line)
-
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- @@ @@ @@ @@ @@ @@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@ @@@@@@
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- @@@@ @@@@@@@@@@ @@ @@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@ @@ @@
- @@@@ @@@@@@@@@@ @@ @@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@ @@ @@
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-
-
- You like it?
-
-
- The Magazine gives an explanation how the characterspecs. in the
- DATA statements are beeing calculated and also how to generate
- your own characterset if desired.
-
- If you want to contact the original author:
-
- George Steward
- The Program Factory
- POB 137
- Hancock, NH 03449
-
- Send SASE if you want a reply.
-
- Have a lot of fun!!!
- M.SKAL
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