Re: Monospaced Simulated Braille

2008-08-08 Thread James Jennings
I want to display and edit simulated Braille. OS X has had Braille fonts since Tiger, so all I need to do is pass the correct Unicode codes to NSTextView, except the Braille fonts are proportional spaced, and I need monospaced. There is a Unicode entity called BRAILLE PATTERN BLANK which could

Bold Braille

2009-12-31 Thread James Jennings
In my braille app, the font "Apple Braille" looks kind of wimpy when printed. Some people say it's hard to read. I thought I'd try making it bold, but for some reason, Apple Braille does not go bold in any app I've tried. Okay, so maybe there isn't a bold variant of the braille font installed. So