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mechanicumtoday at 2:48 PM0 repliesview on HN

Braille characters would double the horizontal resolution but halve the already limited vertical resolution, which isn’t great for something that’s intended to be displayed inline with text.

I think Teletext might be even worse. IIRC, it only has three heights for its triangles.

If you’re interested in multiline plotting with braille characters, Ian Henry’s bytemap for Janet (https://github.com/ianthehenry/bytemap) is worth a look (or my Clojure port: https://github.com/waddie/bytemap.clj).