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Svgbob – convert ASCII diagrams to SVG, now with styling support
- flying_sheep 7y agoTry this _______ < Meow > ------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
- jagged-chisel 7y agohttps://imgur.com/a/Og0vYAv https://imgur.com/a/Og0vYAv
- vihren 7y agoThat seems pretty great, but I always have the problem of creating the ASCII art in the first place. Is there a tool to help with that?
- mbar84 7y agoShameless plug: https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/asciigrid/ https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/asciigrid/
- humblebee 7y agoFor general chart drawing (box, lines, arrows, text) I've used asciiflow[0] a few times. [0] http://asciiflow.com/ http://asciiflow.com/
- KingOfCoders 7y agoI can second that. It also supports import which I then use to update documentation.
- jsrjenkins 7y agoThe best I've found is emacs picture-mode. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Basic-Picture.html#Basic-Picture https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ba... Here is a good summary: http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_ascii_diagram.html http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_ascii_diagram.html
- arminiusreturns 7y agoI love how after all these years I can still find out random new things about emacs I didn't know. It's a treasure trove of capabilities.
- inferiorhuman 7y agoI really liked monodraw but am reluctant to pay for a license now that it's more or less been abandoned. I still like it, but only bought a copy for work at megacorp and foolishly didn't put it in my name.
- patrec 7y agoI'm not sure I understand this attitude. It's a pitty it failed commercially. But it's a great app that only costs a tenner and works well (probably way better than any available alternative). And it can "save" as text, so it's not like you're going to lose all your work. Surely, a good investment for anyone above minimum wage who does ascii art periodically on a mac?
- dewey 7y agoWhat makes you think it's abandoned? The author is active on Twitter, the last update for dark mode was in May 2019 and I don't see any show stopper bugs or crashes on Catalina. Small utilities like this don't need an update every month. I bought it a while ago because 1) It's very cheap and a great show case for a small niche Mac app that's both beautiful and works well 2) The two times per year I use it, it's already worth it and fun to play around with. https://blog.helftone.com https://blog.helftone.com
- inferiorhuman 7y agoWhat makes you think it's abandoned? The last blog entry I saw was that it's been put into maintenance mode. If your interest has fizzled but you still want to keep the product out there, that's a great use case for open source. I'm just not that inclined to pay for something that's not being actively developed. Obviously at some point last year it got a new feature (yay). That speaks to the app itself being feature incomplete.
- patrec 7y agoIf you're on a mac, try monodraw. It's discontinued, but it's cheap and works great (it's basically a full featured diagramming app – with text output).
- vanderZwan 7y agoThe website itself is an interactive editor, for what that's worth
- _frkl 7y agoThis is pretty impressive. Are there builds for a cli?
- inferiorhuman 7y agoWell the project's workspace defines svgbob and svgbob_cli crates so probably.
- _frkl 7y agoyes, ive seen that. was just wondering whether/where there are prebuilt binaries i can download directly
- andybak 7y agoSometimes works with https://www.asciiart.eu https://www.asciiart.eu For example: https://www.asciiart.eu/cartoons/felix-the-cat https://www.asciiart.eu/cartoons/felix-the-cat
- kstenerud 7y agoThis is cool, except the alignment is wrong in almost all diagrams. Labels are off center, things overlap, etc. If that were fixed, it would be very nice and usable.
- virtualritz 7y agoYes, this is indeed the only reason I couldn't use this otherwise great tool yet. See my comment here: https://github.com/ivanceras/svgbob/issues/11#issuecomment-586307447 https://github.com/ivanceras/svgbob/issues/11#issuecomment-5...
- 2sk21 7y agoWhat a great idea! I have been using a text to UML sequence diagram tool and this seems to be very much along the same lines.
- mbar84 7y agoI recently wrote an editor for this: https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/asciigrid/ https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/asciigrid/
- michael-ax 7y agoexcellent! created something sensible and relevant just doing what seemed obvious.
- djmips 7y agoNice. I'd like the other direction. SVG -> ASCII
- wolfgangK 7y agoNice ! Now I just need to be able to have org mode source blocks for that .
- dpfu 7y agoAlso check out Markdeep, which provides this (and a whole lot more) via JS: http://casual-effects.com/markdeep/#features http://casual-effects.com/markdeep/#features
- kats 7y agoSeriously, that is very cool! I wonder how PlantUML diagrams would look in Svgbob or Markdeep, if they were imported from text.
- dang 7y agoA thread from 9 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19857349 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19857349 Also 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14422777 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14422777