braillefont(1)

braillefont1

Print text using unicode braille characters

Usage

braillefont

Overview

braillefont can be used either interactively or non-interactively (eg echo text | braillefont) and does convert a given text to a bitmapped version using the Braille range of Unicode. Individual characters use a grid of 6x8 (5x7 usable) "pixels" which are rendered by 3x2 blocks of Unicode characters.

Caveats

For given text only printable ASCII and a limited number of other characters are supported.

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm).

  1. 12–13

Author

braillefont was written by Adam Borowski <kilobyte AT angband.pl>.

From braillefont 1.0-8 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.