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🏗 Please excuse the missing doors and windows and the dust on the floor, this is currently a construction-site where useful little helpers for Web- and Gemini-developers are being collected.
Unicode has the code-block »Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols« which contains "formatted" letters and digits that look like normal characters from the latin alphabet, just formatted in bold, italic, outline or old-English. The *UnicodeText* utility takes your text and converts it into "formatted" UniCode-text, so that you can copy and paste it into your own Gemini pages.
🔨 Convert text into "formatted" Unicode-text
Remember: Those characters will not be recognized as ordinary text by most computer programs - like search engine crawlers for example. Terminal clients may have a problem with displaying the following paragraphs too. Also note that digits not available in all styles.
Noticed that large "Welcome!" on the start-page? It was created with a Linux-utility called *figlet*. This utility reads your text and prints it out in all 290 installed character-sets, ready for you to copy and past into your own page.
🖨 Print a text with large characters
Similar to the Large Characters, there is another Linux utility, called *boxes* that surrounds your text with a more or less sophisticated box, drawn with ASCII-characters. On the Linux command prompt *boxes* accepts multi-line texts, even text-files and offers more formatting methods. Here You can only enter a little bit of text and it will always be centerd vertically and horizontally in the box. The Gemini protocol specifies only single line inputs, but you can enter "multiple" lines of text here, if you use the Perl newline escape [\n] to separate the lines. For example try »Another visitor!\nStay a while.\nStay forever!!!«.
Need to convert a hex-number into decimal? Or [shudder] some octal values into binary? - Easy done with the Number-Converter! Just enter decimal numbers as they are (i.e. 49152), binaries prefixed with "0b" (i.e. 0b10100101), octals prefixed with "0o" (i.e. 0o664) and hexadecimals prefixed with "0x" (i.e. 0xFFD2) and press enter. *NumberConvert* will convert your input into all four systems and print it out. All values are interpreted as 64 bit unsigned integer.
🧮 Convert numbers from and to Hex, Ocal and Binary
Questions, comments or suggestions: Please send me an e-mail.