RTF2BRL(1)

💖 NAME 💖

rtf2brl — the little glow-up artist that translates an RTF file into an embosser-ready Braille file. no cap, that's literally the whole job. ✨

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

here's the tea, bestie — the whole thing looks like this:

rtf2brl [OPTION] infile outfile

so infile has to be a rich-text (rtf) file, that's non-negotiable, periodt. 💅 the script first calls the rtf2xml program, which means you must have that installed on your machine, fr fr — you can find it on the downloads page of www.abilitiessoft.com. 🫶

then rtf2brl produces an xml file with the root element doc. that lil guy gets piped straight into xml2brl. 🦋 and the output file from xml2brl contains much of the formatting of the rtf file — including emphasis. iconic, honestly.

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --help — prints this message. your cheat sheet, yw 🎀
• --version — prints version information. 📌

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by John J. Boyer. 🫡

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright © 2004-2009 ViewPlus Technologies, Inc. Copyright © 2007,2009 Abilitiessoft, Inc. License LGPL: GNU LGPL <http://gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html>

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.

⚠️ There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. like, none. zero. don't come for us. 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The full documentation for rtf2brl is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and rtf2brl programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info liblouisxml

should give you access to the complete manual. go read it, it's giving very thorough. 📚✨

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mwah 💋 this was rtf2brl version 2.4.0, dated February 2026 — thanks for coming to my ted talk, bestie, now go emboss something gorgeous. 🎀💖🌈