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From: =?UTF-8?q?Haoran=20S=2E=20Diao=20=28=E5=88=81=E6=B5=A9=E7=84=B6=29?=
 <0@hairydiode.xyz>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 02:55:40 -0700
Subject: Added ability to display entire strings of text

---
 README |  8 +++++++-
 fontd  |  3 ++-
 textd  | 13 +++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 textd

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
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