> Let me clarify that I am assuming the existence of a text file
> produced by a pre-processor (or a human) where the ASCII characters
> represent braille cells.
This is, you assume an input file like any of the *.brf files you've
mentioned, right?
> The question is whether marking up an ASCII braille file with groff
> markup would be an effective way to format braille.
It's still not clear to me what kind of formatting you need (except
modifying the number of characters per line). I can see the
following:
. Centering lines seems to be the standard markup for headers and
the like (in combination with the `.,,' marker)
. New pages start with `^L' (ctr-l) and have the page number flushed
right and moved into the margin by one character cell. This very
line is used as a normal text line but shortened in length by
three(?) characters.
. A new paragraph is indented by two spaces.
. The right margin is always ragged right.
Have I missed something? I think all those issues don't pose any
serious problems.
Formatting tables indeed will be an interesting issue, and I'm really
curious what kind of examples you'll show to us.
> If I'm understanding properly, a groff-based solution would be to
> distribute braille in a new format that includes groff markup and
> the end user could run it through groff to format it for whatever
> page size they prefer.
Yes. It should be straightforward to add two command-line parameters
(say, -rheight=... and -rlength=...) to the groff invokation. Is
there any other parameters which can be varied except height and
length of a page?
Werner
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