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Re: Drawing Boxes with the .TR in waterloo script

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From: Miguel Bamberger
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 15:10
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In article <SCRIPT-L%92121015452571@DEARN>, Duane Beyer
<URDB%MARIST.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu> writes:
|> Hi,
|>
|>   I have a user that is tring to draw boxes in there Waterloo GML/Script
|> job with the .TR command and is having problems getting the boxes to look
|> they should. The wrong characters are appearing in the corners and the
|> vertical bars a not long enought so there are gaps between then. There are
|> using the default MONO font in GML/Script. Does any one know what would be
|> the correct font to use and what would be the dorrect hex values for the
|> translate command. This font has to be a MONO spaced font. We are printing
|> this on an IBM 3827 and have all of the IBM Licensed font available to PSF
|> using Waterloo Script 90.1.
|>
|> Below is a example of what the user is doing:
|>
|>
|>
|> .im GMLguide
|> :GDOC
|> .tr @ ac # bc $ ab % bb | fa + 8f - bf } eb { ec ! cc  cb ` af
|> :body.
|> .fo off
|> .bf mono
|> @------------------------------------------------------------------#
|> |                          Company XYZ                             |
|> | @-----------------------------------------------#                |
|> | |                   Division 001                |                |
|> | |                                               |                |
|> | |   Departmant A                                |                |
|> | |  @--------------------#                       |                |
|> | |  |Required Data       |     Department B      |                |
|> | | @!-------------------%     @--------------#  |                |
|>
|>
|> Thanks
|> Duane


You might want to try
    .tr @ c7 # c9 $ c8 % d1 | d8 + d2 - d7 } d5 { d6 ! d3  d4 ` f4


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