Re: Embossing 8 dot Braille

[Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>]

> On May 10, 2022, at 03:06, Sebastian Humenda <shumenda@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> Oh, so I would need to convert my computer braille to graphics before printing
> it? Never mind then and thanks for looking it up.

FWIW, I wrote some code a few years ago to do something like this on a Braille Blazer.  I used the Unicode character set as my intermediate format:

> The Unicode block Braille Patterns (U+2800.. U+28FF) contains all 256 possible patterns of an 8-dot braille cell, thereby including the complete 6-dot cell range.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille_Patterns

IIRC, I:

- converted the desired characters into the intermediate format
- rasterized lines of characters into rows of dots
- rendered all eight rows of dots
- output a couple of empty rows, for vertical spacing

-r