> The main advantage of writing ASCII diagrams first is that a) they work over email really well FYI there is an ancient format for bitmap-in-email this, see

> The main advantage of writing ASCII diagrams first is that a) they work over email really well FYI there is an ancient format for bitmap-in-email this, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm_format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm_format LibreOffice recognises it, incredibly. I've not tested it out in any mail client. I doubt it's supported, but it does exist as a spec. (FYI and totally irrelevant I originally came across it here http://underhanded-c.org/_page_id_17.html http://underhanded-c.org/_page_id_17.html)