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From: ung@felix.UUCP (Bill Ung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Inverse characters
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Date: 13 Jul 90 19:39:31 GMT
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In article <4274UD041948@NDSUVM1> UD041948@NDSUVM1.BITNET writes:
>During a recent programming session, I was trying to type INVERSE characters,
>and the worked fine in capital letters, but lowercase letters got screwed up,
>so the word "Name" in inverse looked something like "N%&!" (in inverse letters
>of course).  Anyone knows what causes this phenomena, and better yet, how to
>fix it?

The phenomena is caused because the Apple // wasn't designed to print
lower-case letters in inverse.  You'll notice a similiar phenomenon
when using flashing characters as well.

As far as fixing it, it would be helpful to know which Apple // you had.
At least for the //e and possibly //c & //c+ (I don't know about the
IIgs), you should simply turn on the 80-column card (provided your //e
has one).  Then of course, you're in 80 columns and don't want to be
there, right?  At that point, I think you print a chr$(17) (ctrl-Q, right?)
to put it into 40 column mode, using the 80-column card.  If you do it
correctly, your lower-case inverse characters will show up exactly as you
would like them to be!

Bill Ung
  ung@felix.UUCP