Benday

Workflow CLI for editing braille ASCII art. You can edit an image on your editor of choice, and it will show to the terminal on what it will look like.

Features

Creating benday files

Note

Benday files ends with .by.png

Near real time feedback when saving the canvas

Ignores non black colored pixels for comments

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Commands for ease of use

Pressing c will clean the canvas (not the comment pixels)

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Pressing C will clean the canvas (including the comment pixels)

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Pressing t will toggle the canvas' padding. You can move stuff more freely now.

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Pressing r will bring up the resize interface where you can resize the canvas.

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Export/import of braille ascii art

Installation

If you have at least Go 1.23, install using the following command:

go install github.com/noAbbreviation/benday

Note

A release may be in the works.

Future stuff (maybe)

• Resizable and movable canvas viewport for bigger canvases
• OS native file locking