grade one braille generator

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This started out as a simple alpha-numeric braille generator script to help me learn how to script in OpenSCAD. It escalated from there. The script takes user input and generates lines of braille. It uses UEB (Universal English Braille) specifications by default but the dimensions can be adjusted, with the ranges listed for reference. Four lines are provided by default, but additional lines can be added if needed. All lines except the first can be disabled in the customizer. A backing plate is auto generated based the length of the text for each line. This can be disable in the customizer. I added a Hull and Minkowski to the back plate as an example, but these can be commented out if not needed. The script can generate braille glyphs for all characters on an standard English keyboard. It includes simple logic to add a numeral indicator, a capital indicator for single capital letters, a capital letter indicator for multiple capital letters with a closing indicator, a double quote opening and closing indicator and single quote opening and closing indicator. The single quote indicator is commented out, as I wasn't sure if it was really needed or helpful. I tested the code with up to three glyph braille characters (ie ¿), so this should be able to handle other keyboard layouts as well. There are comments to explain the list set up and the existing items can be simply modified. I didn't see any braille characters that used more than three glyphs. I did my best to test this as thoroughly as I could. You can see some test renders above, as well as an example of printing the braille both horizontally and vertically.