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Monodraw

• bayindirh 3y ago
  I use Monodraw since the first day it came out. I use it to draw software architecture, diagrams, and most importantly login banners to the systems I manage personally. It's a nice, to the point tool.
• tooltechgeek 3y ago
  I get it, but what about mermaid for diagrams? and free
• Brajeshwar 3y ago
  I love this tool. This is one of those that you buy it and keep it, even if you use it once a while.
  • saikatsg 3y ago
    The website design is also neat.
  • dfee 3y ago
    Have you had this for a long time, or are you speculating that it’s the type of software you like? This looks very cool to me, though. If you have used it, can you share how you’ve used the generated diagrams? I can imagine a screenshot of the diagram, but the raw text would probably be too big in (e.g. a terminal).
    • ryanschneider 3y ago
      As other have mentioned I’ve used it for diagrams in code comments and READMEs (before GH added mermaid integration). Making readable diagrams with 80 character width can be a challenge. I bought it back in either late 2017 or early 2018 and used it a fair amount at first but will admit it’s been a couple years since and haven’t tried reinstalling since my last clean OS wipe.
    • Brajeshwar 3y ago
      1Passwords shows that I bought a license on April 6, 2017.
    • loganlinn 3y ago
      I bought license to Monodraw in 2018 and have used it off and on since, so I can attest to GP
    • dorian-graph 3y ago
      > Have you had this for a long time .. Similar to the OP, I've had it for years, and used it every and now then through those years. > .. can you share how you’ve used the generated diagrams? The website mentions exporting in text and images. I use the text importing (to clipboard), with "Trim trailing whitespace". > .. but the raw text would probably be too big in (e.g. a terminal). It's as big or small as you want it to be? With the obvious constraints of the different banner styles. People have had ASCII banners in consoles for decades, there's nothing new about the ASCII banners from Monodraw.
    • jasonm23 3y ago
      Try installing figlet, for banner text. At its simplest: figlet "Text" or use fonts figlet -f small "Small Text" ___ _ _ _____ _ / __|_ __ __ _| | | |_ _|____ _| |_ \__ \ ' \/ _` | | | | |/ -_) \ / _| |___/_|_|_\__,_|_|_| |_|\___/_\_\\__|
• grimgrin 3y ago
  what's the native linux alternative? aka not a webapp edit: hm, maybe https://github.com/nkh/P5-App-Asciio https://github.com/nkh/P5-App-Asciio
  • amlib 3y ago
    Fairly new and barebones for now, but it is available as a flatpak: https://github.com/Nokse22/ascii-draw https://github.com/Nokse22/ascii-draw
  • flylikeabanana 3y ago
    One way would be to use emacs’ artist-mode to draw ascii lines and boxes then use ditaa[1] to transform them into images. It’s not a pretty packaged GUI app but it’s certainly an option [1] https://ditaa.sourceforge.net/ https://ditaa.sourceforge.net/
  • strobe 3y ago
    emacs artist mode also suitable for something like that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JZ6ljIRGus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JZ6ljIRGus
  • fbdab103 3y ago
    For anyone who is willing to use a webapp, I like drawio[0]. You can download locally[1] and self host (I just use the python webserver). While finding the Github, I see they now actually package an Electron application, so that is probably worth exploring[2]. [0] https://www.drawio.com/ https://www.drawio.com/ [1] https://github.com/jgraph/drawio https://github.com/jgraph/drawio [2] https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop
    • rihards__ 3y ago
      DrawIO feature to save editable PNGs (embedded diagram source code) is absolutely magical. The tool is quite basic, until you realize, you can create reusable blocks (in scratchpad) with predifened style. From that point on you just publish editable PNGs to git and draw them rather quickly by dropping in predefined blocks.
• joshlemer 3y ago
  This went into "maintenance mode" in 2018, has anything changed? https://blog.helftone.com/monodraw-maintenance-mode/ https://blog.helftone.com/monodraw-maintenance-mode/
  • marcusjt 3y ago
    https://x.com/Monodraw https://x.com/Monodraw suggests there have indeed been updates
    • graypegg 3y ago
      To be fair, the last tweet is from 2 years ago. However, I’ve made pretty good use of it, and it’s really a “complete” product. Not much more to update than the occasional mandatory platform upgrade.
  • airstrike 3y ago
    From the FAQ at the bottom > Why not open source the app? > > Maintaining an open-source project can be a significant amount of work and I'm not going to have the time to take on such responsibilities. Furthermore, open-sourcing full products tends to result in many clones being sold directly to unsuspecting customers which is not something I want to enable. It's strange how both of those statements are incorrect... open-sourcing a project allows for contributors to pick up some of the workload and certain licenses would prevent clones from being sold to unsuspecting customers
    • arccy 3y ago
      a license doesn't magically stop bad things from happening.
      • airstrike 3y ago
        it doesn't, but it's a deterrent. the very fact that this app had limited commercial success is reason to believe there likely won't be "many clones", especially if they're forced to go against the license
• z5h 3y ago
  Owned this for years, and regularly use it to brainstorm, and sometimes I’ll add ascii diagrams to code comments.
• huydotnet 3y ago
  Awesome tool! Also, for the web version, my friend made an alternative written in Kotlin https://github.com/tuanchauict/MonoSketch https://github.com/tuanchauict/MonoSketch I also have a half baked version in Rust too https://github.com/huytd/ascii-d https://github.com/huytd/ascii-d
• sebastianconcpt 3y ago
  I love this tool! I've used it to do diagrams for Mapless: https://sebastianconcept.github.io/Mapless/guides/2024/01/28/observer-pattern.html https://sebastianconcept.github.io/Mapless/guides/2024/01/28... And to document this Pharo VM Plugin builder setup: https://github.com/sebastianconcept/PharoPluginBuilder https://github.com/sebastianconcept/PharoPluginBuilder
  • James_K 3y ago
    So you used an ASCII drawing tool to draw these diagrams in text then took a screenshot of them and uploaded to your website? That seems like such a convoluted way to draw a few rectangles. Isn't there an easier way?
    • k12sosse 3y ago
      Think different.
    • mjochim 3y ago
      Doesn't seem more convoluted than any other drawing tool to me. The UI of Monodraw appears to be pretty similar to "regular" drawing software.
    • subjectsigma 3y ago
      1. You can just “Save as” to PNG, it takes no time or effort. 2. I use to use Monodraw exclusively for making diagrams in source code, but over time I’ve become so comfortable with the tool, keyboard shortcuts, etc. that now I just use it for all diagrams. It’s a very nice tool.
      • James_K 3y ago
        If you feel the need to embed giant ASCII diagrams into a source file, I think you should just use a picture. Like a .png or .svg or something and write the documentation in another file. Or even maybe try out rich text source code.
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• ThinkBeat 3y ago
  Funny. The front page (still) states: "We're a small studio that loves to make delightful apps. We just launched Monodraw." The blog says: Maintenance Mode With immediate effect, Monodraw is entering maintenance mode. This means that there will be no more updates in the future. While I'll be aiming to provide OS compatibility updates, if required, those are not guaranteed. Accordingly, the price has been reduced from $19.99 to $9.99. Why? Monodraw was released in May 2015, about three and a half years ago. Unfortunately, it did not achieve commercial success and it meant I had to get a job. In the years that followed, I could only work on Monodraw in my spare time. Due to recent changes in my life, I can no longer devote any meaningful time to the app. "" https://blog.helftone.com/monodraw-maintenance-mode/ https://blog.helftone.com/monodraw-maintenance-mode/
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  • andai 3y ago
    And thanks to being proprietary, no one else can devote time to it, either.
    • jorts 3y ago
      It’s perfectly fine that it’s proprietary. Just because it exists doesn’t mean other people are entitled to the source code.
      • andai 3y ago
        I agree. Nobody owes anyone anything! I was merely pointing out that it's a shame that (1) it has apparently been abandoned for years, (2) people are not able to do anything about that. (Bus factor == 1, etc.) Based on the other comments in the thread, I'm sure there are people who would love to contribute. (Worth pointing out that making something open source isn't zero-maintenance by any means, especially since GitHub still doesn't let you disable pull requests...)
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• zokier 3y ago
  Stretching the idea of "plain text" quite far imho.
• Solvency 3y ago
  These used to be called Macro Shops back in the 90s AOL prog/punter scene. There used to be thousands of truly incredible ASCII macro artworks. This is barely scratching the surface. https://i0.wp.com/justinakapaste.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2014-07-27-23_14_50-Arial-ASCII-Art-Gallery.png?fit=504%2C204&ssl=1 https://i0.wp.com/justinakapaste.com/wp-content/uploads/2014...
• paulirish 3y ago
  Looks nice. https://asciiflow.com/ https://asciiflow.com/ is a web-based alternative that's been my go-to for a decade.
  • russellendicott 3y ago
    I use ASCIIFlow all the time. I still haven't figured out how to get browsers to render the monospace fonts correctly see example diagram on this page: http://uggly.bytester.net/#how-it-works http://uggly.bytester.net/#how-it-works
    • Retr0id 3y ago
      Looks fine on my machine - my guess is that your primary font does not contain all the glyphs used (e.g. the box-drawing chars), so its falling back to another font just for those glyphs, causing inconsistencies.
      • russellendicott 3y ago
        It seems to only mess it up on mobile. Desktop Chrome seems fine. Mobile Chrome is all I've tested on.
        • Retr0id 3y ago
          Ah, in that case you might want: text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; (it's infuriating that these options need to exist!)
          • golem14 3y ago
            How do you set options for chrome on iPhone and android? Sorry for the naive question, I never figured this out.
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• seer 3y ago
  OMG this is one of my favorite tools paid for it all the way back when it went out. Have used it so many times just to write documentation for things like: https://github.com/ivank/potygen/blob/main/packages/potygen/src/grammar.types.ts https://github.com/ivank/potygen/blob/main/packages/potygen/... ASCII is just so versatile and allows you to put nice graphics in places where one does not expect, making things more easily understandable.
  • mixmastamyk 3y ago
    Those corners look like Unicode block chars.
    • diggan 3y ago
      ASCII means more than just characters from the ASCII character standard today, for better or worse. The "modern" translation would be something like "text". I don't agree or disagree with it, so don't argue with me, just trying to explain how people use it today.
      • mixmastamyk 3y ago
        Anyone can write that a word no longer has its defined meaning. That can’t even be refuted, as it’s certain someone is confused somewhere. However, ASCII is not a random ancient word, it’s a ratified standard. Would be like calling any datetime format “ISO8601”.
        • samatman 3y ago
          Context is important, ya know? If we're talking about text encodings, that's one thing, but we're talking about drawing. "ASCII text" drawing was never entirely limited to ASCII even in the days of single-byte encodings. There were code pages which used the high bit for more useful drawing glyphs, people took advantage of that when they could. The concept of an extended ASCII encoding goes way back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_ASCII, and UTF-8 is just another extended ASCII encoding, albeit a very clever one, with a lot of codepoints.
• notnmeyer 3y ago
  monodraw has been one of my favorite diagramming tools, but never seemed to be popular with the folks i worked with.
  • russellendicott 3y ago
    Yeah, I'm known as the ASCII diagram guy at work because I use ASCIIFlow a lot. Still not sure if people think I'm a joke. https://asciiflow.com/#/ https://asciiflow.com/#/
• thom 3y ago
  I've used this in the past and enjoyed it. My one complaint, if I recall, is that you have to use its own built in file format to maintain all the cool features like anchors and resizable boxes and stuff. You can't just point at at an ASCII drawing in a markdown document and get all the functionality for free. I suspect if someone really wanted to they could crack that through clever algorithms and LLMs - and I've extensively used the latter to work on first drafts of ASCII diagrams to some success. But I've never found a good balance of maintainability (i.e. a box is a box and I can move it and have its connections follow it around) and portability (everything really is just pure text). If I'm wrong about recent versions of Monodraw or something else achieves this I'm all ears! I certainly had more success with Monodraw than artist mode in Emacs, at least.
  • xp84 3y ago
    Interesting take. Do you have a lot of existing diagrams you'd like to manage? If I'm starting from scratch, I would sort of expect/want to have the abstract file format like this, seeing it as like a PSD, and the output as a rendered, flat image like PNG. Or source code vs. binary. Parsing an output artifact back into a more semantic and abstract form is hard to get perfect, I would imagine.
    • thom 3y ago
      There are times when I've wanted architecture diagrams to be ASCII in markdown, meant to be consumed through GitHub or in a Backstage portal or something. For me, the ideal workflow would be to just be able to edit those inline but still have cool editor features. Maintaining a separate file is just hassle, and it's hard enough trying to keep diagrams alive as part of documentation as it is.
• mechanicker 3y ago
  Awesome tool I purchased when I stumbled upon it. I draw flowcharts for complex implementations in ASCII using Monodraw and embed them in source code.
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• mergy 3y ago
  Interesting. I have been spending a lot of time with Mermaidjs for the last year or so and love it but not around ERDs because of the inability to map field relationships the way I want. I will check this out.
• zekenie 3y ago
  *Love* monodraw. The last 2 times i was on the job market I used monodraw extensively for little inline diagrams for my take-home projects. It always was a big hit with the reviewers.
• jvanderbot 3y ago
  Why isn't there a good CLI tool for specifying and rendering these? I'm imagining something like dot -Tascii
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  • durandal1 3y ago
    Because beautiful diagrams that can be edited and viewed anywhere and any developer tool and platform on the planet.
  • thenanyu 3y ago
    the reason I want this is because I can inject a diagram anywhere, specifically code files
• OneOfTheMicahs 3y ago
  How accessible are these diagrams to screen readers?
  • internetter 3y ago
    They aren't
  • kube-system 3y ago
    Probably something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boh92DrYEWs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boh92DrYEWs
• supertron 3y ago
  Monodraw is great. I occasionally use it to document system architecture in code comments and project READMEs etc. [0] Also handy as a quick way to document CSS styles to help visualise which parts of a layout a given style targets [1] [0] https://gist.github.com/supertr0n/f006a5f61b60160862ec13024e262b80 https://gist.github.com/supertr0n/f006a5f61b60160862ec13024e... [1] https://gist.github.com/supertr0n/462325ec3f7fbea0278003915002cdb1 https://gist.github.com/supertr0n/462325ec3f7fbea02780039150...
• constantinum 3y ago
  One of the first few tools I install on a new machine. Absolutely no subscription nonsense.
• sigma5 3y ago
  how does it compare to excalidraw ?
• ukd1 3y ago
  I've been using this since 2015 - and just found out today they have a cli tool! But, I bought through the App Store so it's not available for me. For any users, is the cli tool useful?
• methuselah_in 3y ago
  No Linux or windows?
  • petepete 3y ago
    No, but Asciiflow is very good. https://asciiflow.com/ https://asciiflow.com/
    • anthk 3y ago
      try gramscii, and aamath for math formulae.
• breadchris 3y ago
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• adamzerner 3y ago
  Hm. I'm interested in hearing more about the specific scenarios where this sort of tool is useful. I skimmed through the HN comments and see that it can be used for adding diagrams to code comments. But what else? Slack, Jira, READMEs, SMS, Signal etc all allow you to include pngs.
  • ksherlock 3y ago
    You can use it for mocking up a text user interface.
  • eichin 3y ago
    What do you mean by READMEs here? Markdown readmes support embedding images from external files, which isn't really useful if you're looking at the readme directly (or do you use data: uris there? Last I looked they had too-severe length limits.) (I'm also curious what you mean by SMS, or are you conflating it with RCS?)
  • abdullahkhalids 3y ago
    Messaging apps don't have fixed width apps, I think. You would need to pick one app's specific font (idk if Monodraw lets you do that), and draw using that.
• thenanyu 3y ago
  I got 20% done prototyping an implementation of this for myself. Gonna just pay the $10. Thank you!
• trusz 3y ago
  I always end back with monodraw. Other apps have too many features and style possibilities that you forget about the content. With monodraw I never get distracted. However, it still has enough functionality that you can achieve a lot of things. One of my favorites are the anchors. I have even created a small demo/tutorial: https://tamasruss.com/articles/monodraw-anchors https://tamasruss.com/articles/monodraw-anchors
  • Semmel 3y ago
    That UML box of a class is really valueable. Great tutorial!
  • throwaway290 3y ago
    Slightly ironic how you complain that other apps make you forget about content but fiddling with responsive separators and anchor points in monodraw is totally OK :) neat trick though
    • trusz 3y ago
      Haha, true. However, I think this one is less subjective. I just had to create it once then it works. With design, I always have the urge to change it after a week :D
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  • patja 3y ago
    especially confusing since for many people using Mono in the name of software triggers associations with cross-platform capabilities
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• coffeemug 3y ago
  Amazing tool, thank you for building this. One piece of feedback: let me pay you without having to fill out a 20 field form. I would have happily bought a license through PayPal, but having to enter all the info really makes me want to press the back button.
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• guestbest 3y ago
  When I worked in telecom, this is how people used spreadsheets
• easeout 3y ago
  I used this often for diagrams before repository sites' Markdown renderers started to support Mermaid. Nice tool; easy and fast. Can be a bit fiddly to make changes, depending on how much you care about neatness.
• richardw 3y ago
  Love it. Triggers memories! I wrote my own similar-ish version of this for a school project in 1991. Although mine wasn’t mono, so I could draw in foreground colour, preserving the existing text, background colour or text. Eg draw a filled in square made up only of background colour changes. Obviously this is very different but I love the sense of surprisingly good output despite a lot of restrictions.
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• fortyseven 3y ago
  I'll never understand willingly restricting yourself to one desktop platform. Especially with a paid app. Oh well. Looks nice
  • LoganDark 3y ago
    Sketch, Rogue Amoeba apps, Panic, etc. plenty of Mac-only businesses. They make decent money. As Mac users actually tend to pay for their software rather than expecting everything to be free. If you released the same software for the same price on Windows, not only would it be more difficult to develop (due to Windows lacking the same abstractions as macOS), you'd probably have way less users, as Windows users don't typically buy apps like this.
  • m1keil 3y ago
    I share similar caution with tools and multi-platforms (specifically Mac, Win & Linux). However, the format is interchangeable with other Ascii drawing apps and it isn't too expensive. So I'm totally fine with it.
• nico 3y ago
  Looks amazing It would be cool if they had an img2asciidiagram that would convert something drawn on paper to an ascii, and that could run from my phone (similar how GeniusScan works) Then I could just draw on paper, and scan the diagrams from the phone :)
• crooked-v 3y ago
  Monodraw has been invaluable to me for creating UX workflow mockups that sidestep all the bikeshedding by way of having no fine details that people can nitpick.
• felideon 3y ago
  > A picture is worth a thousand words. A diagram is probably worth twice as much. Or (sometimes) worth ten thousand words: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1551-6708.1987.tb00863.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1551-6708.1987...
• anigbrowl 3y ago
  ASCII art, so great we built a GUI for it
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• smusamashah 3y ago
  I maintain a list [1] of main web based text to diagram tools including ascii drawing tools like these. Web alternatives for this are probably https://fsymbols.com/draw/ https://fsymbols.com/draw/ or https://textik.com/ https://textik.com/ or https://asciiflow.com/#/ https://asciiflow.com/#/ or https://web.archive.org/web/20210503172024/https://fatiherikli.github.io/archetype/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210503172024/https://fatiherik... or https://app.monosketch.io https://app.monosketch.io [1]: https://xosh.org/text-to-diagram/ https://xosh.org/text-to-diagram/
  • bugbuddy 3y ago
    Great list. Thank you so much!
  • 8ig8 3y ago
    Pikchar is another to consider for your list. From the creator of SQLite… https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/doc/userman.md https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/doc/userman.md
    • smusamashah 3y ago
      It's the second item on the list already.
      • lebean 3y ago
        Yes but you only listed it once!
    • account-5 3y ago
      I was introduced to this recently, still digesting it, looks amazing. And no Mac only, and free to boot. Win, win.
  • jskherman 3y ago
    Have you also checked out some of the lists on https://fmhy.net https://fmhy.net? Some there might be of interest.
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• tracker1 3y ago
  Really wish this was cross platform. Would love to use this in Linux. I appreciate the effort that it takes to deliver a polished application. I just wish more tooling did better to target Linux, Windows and Mac for desktop apps. Probably a larger driver behind web based apps.
  • azeirah 3y ago
    I'm kind of surprised that for desktop applications more people don't use Qt. It's so good for these kinds of applications!
    • asteroidz 3y ago
      What DO people use for (cross-platform) desktop applications these days? Find it hard to believe Electron is the only one.
      • azeirah 3y ago
        I don't know if cross-platform applications are very popular anymore. Most of the good software I use is either single platform using native code, or it's Qt or it's electron. Only rare cases use something else. Sublime has their own cross-platform native widget system Jetbrains/minecraft use Java Spotify is chromium, discord is chromium, thunderbird is firefoxium, Obsidian is chromium, steam is (probably?) chromium. Most software that I know is cross-platform uses Qt otherwise; qbittorrent (duh), Transmission, KeepassXC, VLC (mostly, but also uses other GUI frameworks sometimes), Calibre, Krita, OBS
      • gkbrk 3y ago
        Qt is a popular choice. And as a user, apps made with Qt are pleasant to use.
      • konart 3y ago
        Tauri, Qt. But I'd think Electron has more than 80% of the market.
• aramndrt 3y ago
  This reminds me of the old text file format walkthroughs for video games. I fondly remember using the The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker walkthrough hosted on IGN. Good times. :')
• joehogans 3y ago
  I love monodraw, I buyed it and use it for other developers to show complex functions. You can also ask GPT to render Unicode diagrams and past it in monodraw if you like.
• hit8run 3y ago
  I remember that I bought it through the App Store just to find out that they offered a CLI that is only non App Store. Wrote them a mail and asked if they could change me to non App Store. Never got a reply lol
• stonlyb 3y ago
  Is generative ASCII art a thing? Anything tools similar to Monodraw out there or possible to assist in taking a description and generating an image? Would think even LLM could be trained to think of this as some sort of language.
• stonlyb 3y ago
  Any examples of free body diagrams (from physics) as ASCII art?
• 0898 3y ago
  Can somebody help me? I've tried Monodraw a few times, but whenever I attempt to use the ASCII on a website (Wordpress, if that's important) the artwork never appears with the correct spacing. The tabs don't show up, or the alignment is off. So I end up having to create a GIF, which defeats the purpose. Any ideas?
  • joshstrange 3y ago
    Are you putting the monodraw text output into a code block or using a monospaced font?
    • 0898 3y ago
      Which one is the dumb one? Because that's probably the one I'm doing.
      • joshstrange 3y ago
        Either of those options should work for you. Code blocks are almost always rendered with monospace fonts and manually setting a normal block of text to a monospaced font will do what you want as well. The only other issue I can see is if your diagram is too large it might start wrapping which will break the “image” you are going for. EDIT: See my sibling comment for examples of how to do this.
      • joshstrange 3y ago
        Here is an example of me using a code block in Wordpress but setting the max width: https://cs.joshstrange.com/r3pM1Vzs https://cs.joshstrange.com/r3pM1Vzs Here is how it looks rendered on desktop: https://cs.joshstrange.com/dvX5qKvf https://cs.joshstrange.com/dvX5qKvf Here is how it looks on mobile (broken): https://cs.joshstrange.com/pHNdKLxH https://cs.joshstrange.com/pHNdKLxH It will work if I set a `style="width: 1200px;"` on the `<pre>` tag (edit as html): https://cs.joshstrange.com/1zTrXZGM https://cs.joshstrange.com/1zTrXZGM But then Wordpress is going to complain: https://cs.joshstrange.com/ctGRh46j https://cs.joshstrange.com/ctGRh46j You can always convert the block to HTML so it stop bugging you which will look gross in your editors but work when displayed: https://cs.joshstrange.com/8FPgPBXp https://cs.joshstrange.com/8FPgPBXp I hope this helps!
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• pcthrowaway 3y ago
  Is there a markdown flavor that allows for font size changes mid-document? It seems like you'd struggle to embed higher-fidelity diagrams that don't encounter issues with wrapping in markdown unless you can also reduce the font size for some diagrams.
  • atoav 3y ago
    As a markdown veteran: Not out of the box. What you can do is custom css for a code block or just insert html with a custom class and style that css seperately, many markdown implementations allow for injecting html into the markdown.
• agarttha 3y ago
  Is there a UTF-16 version?
• inoffensivename 3y ago
  I haven't seen anybody mention JavE (http://www.jave.de/ http://www.jave.de/), substantially predates monodraw, but maybe they have different features.
• ynac 3y ago
  Yes, easily my longest lasting ASCII tool in the box. Used it last year for an album cover - https://ynac.bandcamp.com/album/medulla-assemblongata https://ynac.bandcamp.com/album/medulla-assemblongata and I use it for my ASCII sites and ASCII ads as well. Loads on launch and rarely gets more than 5 or 6 from the left. I'll resist posting an ascii heart, a Monodraw heart through it, but it's hard not to.
• SubiculumCode 3y ago
  Claude 3 racecar lol _..-------++._ _.-'/ | _|| \"--._ .-' / | .-' || \ "-. .' _/ | .' || | ____ | .-' | | .' | | \ | ' __ _.-' "-.| ' ".* .' .* /| / _|. ... | _..-' | _ ". '. .' / | \ \ / _.'' | _| | | .-' | '-..| | __**..--'\ _.\ | || / "-..' | \ // \ \ | |/ . _.--' |/ "-.. ..__...-' _.' """ .-' _...----"""
• T3RMINATED 3y ago
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• marinbala 3y ago
  I love MonoDraw. It is a amazing tool with a great UI. Just a breeze to use!
• 29athrowaway 3y ago
  In TempleOS you can embed animated images into your code.
• yboris 3y ago
  Mildly related: for complex diagrams where too much overlaps, consider yEd - which has functionality to rearrange boxes to minimize overlaps (and other settings) https://www.yworks.com/products/yed https://www.yworks.com/products/yed
• yixas40465 3y ago
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• mtillman 3y ago
  This is a great application and far better than any of the web based stuff in the other comments. You should be given a product award for the Add Attachment Point alone, something no one else has achieved with such ease.