Added example program for displaying bdf files

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diff --git a/README b/README
index 96da413..656d38b 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+------------------------------------=[bbrll]=-----------------------------------
+Bash Braille:
 Simple bash script for drawing graphics in the terminal, takes as input drawing
 commands, and will print either the raw image or the braille version of the
 image as an output
@@ -26,3 +28,8 @@ begin:
 		#ends the script
 
 examples are in INPUT and INPUT2
+
+------------------------------------=[fontd]=-----------------------------------
+Font Display:
+	prints font in braille characters, useful for limited environments such
+	as the linux console(although you would need braille support first)
diff --git a/fontd b/fontd
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..3ca9ae3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fontd
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#USAGE
+#	fontd CHAR DIR
+#		display CHAR if found in any bdf fonts in DIR/
+
+#gets font size, it can take multiple fonts as input so only get the first one
+#and assume they're all the same size
+size=$(cat $2/*bdf | grep -m 1 PIXEL_SIZE | awk '{print $2}')
+
+#get bdf bitmap info from bdf
+#fflag ensures only one result even with multiple bdfs, cflag finds the char,
+#bflag labels just the bitmap part
+bdf=$(cat $2/*bdf | awk "NR==1{fflag=0}/STARTCHAR $1$/{if(fflag==0){cflag=1;fflag=1}}/BITMAP/{if (cflag==1){bflag=1};next}/ENDCHAR/{cflag=0;bflag=0}bflag")
+
+#convert to binary, cols depends on size
+bin=$(echo $bdf | xxd -r -ps | xxd -b -c $(($size/8))|\
+#strip all the formating, replace '0' with '.' for bbrll
+sed 's/^.*://g;s/\s[^[:space:]]*$//;s/\s//g;s/0/\./g')
+
+
+#saving it as a var removed newlines, must add in with sed, send to bbrll to
+# display
+echo LOAD_RAW $bin END_RAW PRINT_BRAILLE | sed  's/\s/\n/g' | bbrll