Define display position for 1st character

[skimask]

Did your code examples work for you, because I can't get them to do what I am trying to accomplish?

Thanks

Nope, haven't tried, don't have your circuit, which by the way isn't described.
I'm throwing suggestions...
Skip the pulsin and substitute raw numbers.
Break it down...make it stupid simple...then build 'er back up to what you need...
And rethink the way I removed the "10" from each of your lines.
I left a little bug in there for you to figure out, specifically:

when I remove the 10 (line feed), the x pulse and y pulse overwrite each other and the diplay alternates back and forth.

Think about it...if you remove the line feed in between x and y, what'll happen?