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Ditaa: DIagrams Through Ascii Art
- mgr86 11y agonot to be confused with DITA: The Darwin Information Typing Architecture[1]. [1]. http://dita.xml.org/ http://dita.xml.org/
- prideout 11y agoMarkdeep from Morgan McGuire can do something like this too: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
- Animats 11y agoAw. I wrote a UNIX filter to do that around 1980. It looked at lines of text three lines at a time, and converted "+", "-", "_", and "|" characters used together to line drawing characters to make clean boxes, lines, and joins. ┏━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┏━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃Like this.┣━━━━━━━┫ ┃ ┗━━━━┳━━━━━┛ ┗━━━━━━━━━━┛ ┃ ┃ ┏━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━┫ ┃ ┗━━━━━━━━━━┛
- akavel 11y agoMigrated to github: https://github.com/stathissideris/ditaa https://github.com/stathissideris/ditaa (SF.net lists 2011 as SVN trunk date, github lists "13 days ago") In related work, see also my Go port at: https://github.com/akavel/ditaa https://github.com/akavel/ditaa (side by side comparison: http://akavel.github.io/ditaa/ http://akavel.github.io/ditaa/)
- splitbrain 11y agoThere used to be ditaa.org which provided access to ditaa via a simple HTTP API. Unfortunately it seems to have vanished.
- neolefty 11y agoMy fault. It was running on a free Amazon ec2 instance and I forgot to transition it to paid when the time ran out. If anyone wants to get it running again I've still got the domain and can point it to the right place. I'm on vacation now but this gives me a good reason to get it working again!
- vmorgulis 11y agoAn idea (don't know if it's feasible) is to compile to JS with GWT and put that to GitHub pages.
- jordache 11y agoFrom their examples: +--------+ +-------+ +-------+ | | --+ ditaa +--> | | | Text | +-------+ |diagram| |Document| |!magic!| | | | {d}| | | | | +---+----+ +-------+ +-------+ : ^ | Lots of work | +-------------------------+ Typing this out is a lot more work than creating it in Visio...
- scarredwaits 11y agoAgreed. But check out artist mode on Emacs...
- lallysingh 11y agoSeconded, artist mode is great for this stuff. Separately, check out plantuml for diagrams from text http://plantuml.com/ http://plantuml.com/
- jordache 11y agook.. maybe this is only a value add for Emacs users?
- kleiba 11y agoorg-mode certainly supports it, which is a big plus.
- dbcurtis 11y agoWell, OK, but usually I want to go the other way. How about something that can take a drawing produced in some sort of reasonable drawing tool and produce ASCII art that I can include in some kind of ASCII-only file (like program source.) Originating a drawing in ASCII-art is about as fun as a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. Certainly, there is value on ASCII-art to nice-graphics mark-up, but only to the extent that the ASCII-art is used as an intermediate, human readable, common-demoninator storage format. Authoring in ASCII-art just needs to stop.
- Exuma 11y agoBetter up your varnish game
- Corun 11y agoRelated: http://monodraw.helftone.com http://monodraw.helftone.com is a beautiful ASCII Diagramming Tool for Mac.
- herbst 11y ago> a small command-line utility written in Java That somehow sounds wrong. Other than that, very cute. I remember when i wrote a task tracker for myself in school projects and suddenly there was a requirement to print them out. Creating a ASCII representation was the most fun part.