Yeah, I though of artist-mode immediately! Check this out with M-x org-mode and DITAA... http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-ditaa.html

Yeah, I though of artist-mode immediately! Check this out with M-x org-mode and DITAA... http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-ditaa.html http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-d... Also org-mode gives you kick-ass ASCII tables.