| abstract |
A display apparatus for displaying data characters on a CRT video display monitor so as to have one or more display attributes or characteristics. In accordance with the present invention, data characters may be displayed on a CRT video display monitor so as to be inverted in appearance, intensified, underlined, struck out, made amenable to detection by a light pen, or made to have a width twice that of a normal display character. Data characters having the abovementioned display attributes may be intermixed in one or more character display rows of the CRT video display monitor, and any given data character may have only one of the abovementioned display attributes or several of the display attributes simultaneously. |