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We switched to Isofont to get the one's to look different from lower case l's.
Using a different font is one approach. If you do want to make a customized version of the basic 'font' font, you could (in loadpoint/text/usascii) copy font.ndx to better_font.ndx, and replace the line 'ascii.src' with 'better_ascii.src'; copy ascii.src to better_ascii.src and modify the section
"1"
m 8, 16
d 8, 4
to have the extra stroke(s) desired, and employ compile_font to make it into a font. See http://support.ptc.com/cs/cs_23/howto/kmf157/kmf157.htm "Suggested Technique For Creating Custom Text Fonts" for details.