
2000 Feb 23
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Philips Semiconductors
Preliminary specification
TV microcontrollers with Closed Captioning (CC)
and On-Screen Display (OSD)
SAA55xx
18.3.3
S
IZE
The size of the characters can be modified in both the
horizontal and vertical directions.
CC:
Two sizes are available in both the horizontal and
vertical directions. The sizes available are normal (
×
1),
double (
×
2) height/width and any combination of these.
The attribute setting is always valid for the whole row.
Mixing of sizes within a row is not possible.
TXT:
Three horizontal sizes are available normal (
×
1),
double (
×
2) and quadruple (
×
4). The control characters
‘normal size’ (0CH/BCH) enables normal size, the ‘double
width’ or ‘double size’ (0EH/BEH/0FH/BFH) enables
double width characters.
Any two consecutive combination of ‘double width’ or
‘double size’ (0EH/BEH/0FH/BFH) activates quadruple
width characters, provided quadruple width characters are
enabled by TXT4.QUAD WIDTH ENABLE.
Three vertical sizes are available normal (
×
1), double (
×
2)
and quadruple (
×
4). The control characters ‘normal size’
(0CH/BCH) enable normal size, the ‘double height’ or
‘double size’ (0DH/BDH/0FH/BFH) enable double height
characters. Quadruple height characters are achieved by
using double height characters and setting the global
attributes TXT7.DOUBLE HEIGHT (expand) and
TXT7.BOTTOM/TOP.
If double height characters are used in Teletext mode,
single height characters in the lower row of the double
height character are automatically disabled.
18.3.4
I
TALIC
CC:
This attribute is valid from the time set until the end of
the row or otherwise modified. The attribute causes the
character foreground pixels to be offset horizontally by
1 pixel per 4 scan lines (interlaced mode). The base is the
bottom left character matrix pixel. The pattern of the
character is indented as shown in Fig.17.
TXT:
The Italic attribute is not available.
Fig.17 Italic characters.
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0
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
Field 1
Field 2
12
×
16 character matrix
12
×
13 character matrix
indented by 7/6/4
indented by 6/5/3
indented by 5/4/2
indented by 4/3/1
indented by 3/2/0
indented by 2/1
indented by 1/0
MBK970
2
4
6
8 10 0 2 4
6 8 10
indented by 0
0
2 4
6 8 10 0 2 4
6 8 10
12
×
10 character matrix
0
2 4
6 8 10 0 2 4
6 8 10