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   Eli the Bearded to yeti@tilde.institute   
   Re: pbm2braille (was: Are We Sixel Yet?)   
   19 Sep 25 04:26:32   
   
   From: *@eli.users.panix.com   
      
   In comp.misc, yeti   wrote:   
   > Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:   
   > > I've seen the Unicode Braille codepoints used, too. Those support 2   
   > > dot wide and 8 dot Braille symbols, which render with white space   
   > > surrounding.   
   > Nice to have:    
      
   https://github.com/Eli-the-Bearded/DotDotDot/tree/pbmtodots/pbmtodots   
      
   (I just forked someone else's work and added the pbm tool to it.)   
      
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   > ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢛⢿⣿⣟   
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   Nice, but it was missing something.   
      
   > But Braille chars and their char and line spacing may look very   
   > different depending on the font you use.  In my XTerms they are as wide   
   > as other chars, in my GUI-Emacs they are narrower and in my main browser   
   > they are wider than the monospace font's spacing.  For its original use   
   > case that won't hurt, but as pseudographicks that may be painful.  Maybe   
   > instead of adding every shit and their pets to Unicode ™someone™ should   
   > solve that problem.   
      
   The Legacy Computing block art looks promising:   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_for_Legacy_Computing   
      
   Elijah   
   ------   
   was not going to link to his program but the idea was so similar   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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