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Ditta: DIagrams Through Ascii Art

34 points by tianyicui 16y ago

ffffruit 16y ago
The original utility on SF http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/ http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/ and some addons http://ditaa-addons.sourceforge.net/ http://ditaa-addons.sourceforge.net/ Ditaa has also been integrated with in orgmode for emacs - http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#playingwithditaa http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#playingwithditaa
wazoox 16y ago
Neat, we usenet dinosaurs love making diagrams in ascii art. By the way Jave looks like a perfect complement to this: http://www.jave.de/ http://www.jave.de/
tome 16y ago
I thought it was going to be a program for helping me draw Ascii art diagrams. I was disappointed. It's a program for converting Ascii art into graphical diagrams.
- ffffruit 16y ago
  Have you looked at 'artist mode' for emacs? http://www.lysator.liu.se/~tab/artist/ http://www.lysator.liu.se/~tab/artist/
  - ulf 16y ago
    seconded! works great together: (setq ditaa-cmd "java -jar ~/.emacs.d/ditaa0_9.jar") (defun ditaa-generate () (interactive) (shell-command (concat ditaa-cmd " -o -r " buffer-file-name)) (find-file (concat (file-name-sans-extension buffer-file-name) ".png")))
ComputerGuru 16y ago
It's nice, but the problem is the ASCII art is, imho, even harder to generate than the flowcharts. My advice would be to add an option to take formatted lists, sequences, text, etc. and change those into flowcharts. There you'd have a winner. (Kind of like the new and super cool smart charts in Office)
eliben 16y ago
Have the respect of correctly spelling the name of the application you're linking to. s/ditta/ditaa/
asdfor 16y ago
It looks pretty neat , however i can't really see any usage on it ,its way faster to use a program with a gui where you can draw those diagrams instead of witting ascii ... Could anyone suggest a good usage of this program ?
- wladimir 16y ago
  Some dinosaurs (such as me) are used to doing diagrams the ASCII way, and just fumble around with GUI tools :) Also, the diagrams also look pretty nice graphically, better than the output of most GUI-based diagram tools, at least the free ones.
- Vivtek 16y ago
  Diagrams in comments stored with code, that get rendered nicely with a presentation style for the code. Useful tool in a literate programming toolbox.
sideris 16y ago
Hey, I developed ditaa! Comments/suggestions welcome :-)
- ffffruit 16y ago
  You are a very handsome young man.
- Sidnicious 16y ago
  You are the good kind of crazy :) My OS doesn't use a monospaced font for textareas by default, so the ASCII art is unreadable. Mind setting a font-family?
- Vivtek 16y ago
  Your ideas fascinate me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

34 points by tianyicui 16y ago

The original utility on SF http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/ http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/ and some addons http://ditaa-addons.sourceforge.net/ http://ditaa-addons.sourceforge.net/ Ditaa has also been integrated with in orgmode for emacs - http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#playingwithditaa http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#playingwithditaa

wazoox 16y ago

Neat, we usenet dinosaurs love making diagrams in ascii art. By the way Jave looks like a perfect complement to this: http://www.jave.de/ http://www.jave.de/

tome 16y ago

I thought it was going to be a program for helping me draw Ascii art diagrams. I was disappointed. It's a program for converting Ascii art into graphical diagrams.

ffffruit 16y ago
Have you looked at 'artist mode' for emacs? http://www.lysator.liu.se/~tab/artist/ http://www.lysator.liu.se/~tab/artist/
- ulf 16y ago
  seconded! works great together: (setq ditaa-cmd "java -jar ~/.emacs.d/ditaa0_9.jar") (defun ditaa-generate () (interactive) (shell-command (concat ditaa-cmd " -o -r " buffer-file-name)) (find-file (concat (file-name-sans-extension buffer-file-name) ".png")))

ComputerGuru 16y ago

It's nice, but the problem is the ASCII art is, imho, even harder to generate than the flowcharts. My advice would be to add an option to take formatted lists, sequences, text, etc. and change those into flowcharts. There you'd have a winner. (Kind of like the new and super cool smart charts in Office)

eliben 16y ago

Have the respect of correctly spelling the name of the application you're linking to. s/ditta/ditaa/

asdfor 16y ago

It looks pretty neat , however i can't really see any usage on it ,its way faster to use a program with a gui where you can draw those diagrams instead of witting ascii ... Could anyone suggest a good usage of this program ?

wladimir 16y ago
Some dinosaurs (such as me) are used to doing diagrams the ASCII way, and just fumble around with GUI tools :) Also, the diagrams also look pretty nice graphically, better than the output of most GUI-based diagram tools, at least the free ones.
Vivtek 16y ago
Diagrams in comments stored with code, that get rendered nicely with a presentation style for the code. Useful tool in a literate programming toolbox.

sideris 16y ago

Hey, I developed ditaa! Comments/suggestions welcome :-)

ffffruit 16y ago
You are a very handsome young man.
Sidnicious 16y ago
You are the good kind of crazy :) My OS doesn't use a monospaced font for textareas by default, so the ASCII art is unreadable. Mind setting a font-family?
Vivtek 16y ago
Your ideas fascinate me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.