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-rw-r--r--README8
-rwxr-xr-xfontd3
-rwxr-xr-xtextd13
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index 656d38b..3b6e755 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -32,4 +32,10 @@ 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)
+ as the linux console(although you would need braille support first),
+ takes as first argument a decimal codepoint (bdf format) and the 2nd a
+ directory with bdf fonts from which to find the character
+------------------------------------=[textd]=-----------------------------------
+Text Display:
+ Takes utf-8 input from stdin and displays it vertically with fonts
+ specified by the first argument
diff --git a/fontd b/fontd
index 3ca9ae3..d6754d0 100755
--- a/fontd
+++ b/fontd
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
#USAGE
# fontd CHAR DIR
# display CHAR if found in any bdf fonts in DIR/
+# NOTE: CHAR must be in decimal encoding point format of bdf
#gets font size, it can take multiple fonts as input so only get the first one
#and assume they're all the same size
@@ -10,7 +11,7 @@ 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")
+bdf=$(cat $2/*bdf | awk "NR==1{fflag=0}/ENCODING $1$/{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))|\
diff --git a/textd b/textd
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..57394a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textd
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#usage:
+# textd DIR
+# reads from stdin, and displays all text vertically using fonts
+# in DIR
+# assumes unicode utf-8 input
+codes=$(iconv -f utf8 -t utf32be | xxd -u -p -c 4)
+#convert to decimal
+dec=$(echo -n "ibase=16;$codes" | bc)
+dec=($dec)
+for decimal_code in "${dec[@]}"; do
+ ./fontd "$decimal_code" "$1"
+done