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I'm not sure what you mean by not using ASCII as its format. It lets you export as plain (ASCII) text, but the document format for the app itself also needs to
by andrewingram 4y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by not using ASCII as its format. It lets you export as plain (ASCII) text, but the document format for the app itself also needs to keep hold of all the additional metadata related to vector shapes and groups. So it follows that the plain text representation isn't going to be sufficient to model such a document.
- tomxor 4y ago> It lets you export as plain (ASCII) text, but the document format for the app itself also needs to keep hold of all the additional metadata related to vector shapes and groups. Yes this is exactly what I mean, exporting ASCII != using ASCII as the format. ASCII flow (although substantially less featureful) shows that it is possible to do reasonable shape inference directly from ASCII, and frankly this is preferable to lugging a load of proprietary application documents around with your ASCII diagrams (even though it's obviously more limited)... otherwise why bother with ASCII.
- andrewingram 4y agoThe inference in Asciiflow is quite impressive. From my perspective it falls a little short of providing a great experience, but each to their own.