A little trick for a dire emergency ... although I'd like to know how to get the final steps in the recipe below to work. I was giving a seminar this morning and forgot to print my notes before I left home. I don't have a braille printer at work. What to do? Suicide, go home (1.5 hours) , wing it ... Normally it's just: create file "text" containing notes then nfbtrans text >/dev/lp0 I *do* have a stereocopier at work for graphics so wondered if I could produce braille on paper then raise it with the stereocopier. It almost worked. nfbtrans text > brlfile no problem there. Then the task is to print brlfile using a2ps and the braille font. First need to install the braille font for a2ps 1) copy Braille.afm to the afm subdirectory of a2ps, in my case (RH7.3 ... don't laugh :-) /usr/share/a2ps/afm 2) In this directory run make_fonts_map.sh 3) copy the actual font definition to the fonts subdirectory cp Braille-nemeth.ps /usr/share/a2ps/fonts/Braille.pfa Next we need a prologue. These live in the ps subdirectory. cd ../ps Following the advice of the info man page I modified an existing file, changing only one line in bw.pro diff bw.pro braille.pro < %Face: Plain Courier bfs --- > %Face: Plain Braille-Nemeth bfs Then a command like a2ps --prologue braille --no-header -f 24. -1 -P file brlfile almost works. It produces brlfile.ps. Only the font sizes didn't work and I can't seem to get the -f option to take effect. Eventually, 10 minutes before the seminar, I gave up and asked a colleague to do magic with the photocopier. Anyone have a solution to this? Anyway, $2/page so not something you'd do very often but a useful trick in an emergency and good for a few pages a year. I think I've sent details of the braille font before. If someone gneeds it and can't find it, get back to me. cheers Peter _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list