A slash, / or , is used for drawing a slant line. A hyphen, -, is used to make a dashed horizontal line. An underscore, _, is used to make a continuous horizontal line. A ‘shift + ', resulting in |, is used to make a dashed vertical line. The brackets, including (), [] or {}, are used to make the end of a rectangle. The ’numbers square’, #, is used to make a grid. The space bar is needed, too! You might find some use for any other characters, like the ‘greater than’ and ’less than’ signs, < and >, or the percentage sign, %, etc.
Open the notepad program; go to format; click on ‘Word Wrap’ to switch it on. Go to format again; click on ‘font’; then set the text to ‘Lucida Console’, regular and 20.