Bug#856033: ITP: brailleimg -- produce text images and graphs abusing Braille glyphs

2017-02-27 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 03:18:04PM +, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > It's not packaged for Debian yet nor do I see any RFP/ITP, but I've > been happily using https://github.com/tehmaze/diagram for a few > years (installable from PyPI via pip so probably easy enough to > package). Its default mode uses

Bug#856033: ITP: brailleimg -- produce text images and graphs abusing Braille glyphs

2017-02-27 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2017-02-25 18:24:33 +0100 (+0100), Adam Borowski wrote: [...] > It looks like no one made a histogram tool using high-resolution > Braille yet, thus I'll add some features (like auto-scaling Y axis > -- doing it manually is tedious, horizontal mode, etc) and package > this part. [...] It's not

Bug#856033: ITP: brailleimg -- produce text images and graphs abusing Braille glyphs

2017-02-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Adam Borowski, on sam. 25 févr. 2017 23:21:55 +0100, wrote: > It's just that _some_ heretics read their mail in a buggy GUI client > or a web page, view commit messages on github rather than locally, and > so on. Right :/ Samuel

Bug#856033: ITP: brailleimg -- produce text images and graphs abusing Braille glyphs

2017-02-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Adam Borowski, on sam. 25 févr. 2017 22:31:57 +0100, wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 08:05:32PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Adam Borowski, on sam. 25 févr. 2017 18:24:33 +0100, wrote: > > > gnuplot relies on being able to place labels within the image, which works > > > for ASCII and maybe L

Bug#856033: ITP: brailleimg -- produce text images and graphs abusing Braille glyphs

2017-02-25 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 10:44:12PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Adam Borowski, on sam. 25 févr. 2017 22:31:57 +0100, wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 08:05:32PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > But for characters that have single-width, they are really > > > aligned with a proper fixed-widt

Bug#856033: ITP: brailleimg -- produce text images and graphs abusing Braille glyphs

2017-02-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Adam Borowski, on sam. 25 févr. 2017 22:31:57 +0100, wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 08:05:32PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > That's expected: some characters have double-width, others have > > zero-width. > > My test sheet accounts for that: it includes only wcwidth()==1 and 2 > characters (

Bug#856033: ITP: brailleimg -- produce text images and graphs abusing Braille glyphs

2017-02-25 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 08:05:32PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Adam Borowski, on sam. 25 févr. 2017 18:24:33 +0100, wrote: > > Alas, it won't work: I see that, while alignment of the graph itself works > > well, anything but terminals (which force a char-cell grid) fails to give > > Braille and

Bug#856033: ITP: brailleimg -- produce text images and graphs abusing Braille glyphs

2017-02-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Adam Borowski, on sam. 25 févr. 2017 18:24:33 +0100, wrote: > Alas, it won't work: I see that, while alignment of the graph itself works > well, anything but terminals (which force a char-cell grid) fails to give > Braille and ASCII characters the same width, despite requesting fixed-width > displa

Bug#856033: ITP: brailleimg -- produce text images and graphs abusing Braille glyphs

2017-02-25 Thread Adam Borowski
Control: retitle -1 ITP: braillegraph -- simple histogram tool producing text dot-matrix graphs On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 02:46:57PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Indeed, apparently I forgot to add documentation. I have submitted > patch, thanks. Awesome, thanks! > > I wonder about the histogr

Bug#856033: ITP: brailleimg -- produce text images and graphs abusing Braille glyphs

2017-02-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Adam Borowski, on ven. 24 févr. 2017 15:44:38 +0100, wrote: > Yeah, it is. There is one problem, though -- even if you install the extra > docs, > zgrep -i ubrl `dpkg -L imagemagick-6{.q16,-common,-doc}` > shows a wee bit too little for my taste. Indeed, apparently I forgot to add docum

Bug#856033: ITP: brailleimg -- produce text images and graphs abusing Braille glyphs

2017-02-24 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 02:45:31PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Adam Borowski, on ven. 24 févr. 2017 14:35:36 +0100, wrote: > > This tool takes an image and converts it to a dot matrix text > > representation using the Unicode range U+2800..28FF. This allows > > to hold an image at a resolut

Bug#856033: ITP: brailleimg -- produce text images and graphs abusing Braille glyphs

2017-02-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Adam Borowski, on ven. 24 févr. 2017 14:35:36 +0100, wrote: > This tool takes an image and converts it to a dot matrix text > representation using the Unicode range U+2800..28FF. This allows > to hold an image at a resolution of 2×4 pixels per character used. Mmm, isn't that what conv

Bug#856033: ITP: brailleimg -- produce text images and graphs abusing Braille glyphs

2017-02-24 Thread Adam Borowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Borowski * Package name: brailleimg Upstream Author : yours truly * URL : https://github.com/kilobyte/brailleimg * License : you're asking tricky questions... Programming Lang: Perl Description : convert images to text