Svgbob – convert ASCII diagrams to SVG, now with styling support(ivanceras.github.io)
ivanceras.github.io
Svgbob – convert ASCII diagrams to SVG, now with styling support
https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/
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excellent! created something sensible and relevant just doing what seemed obvious.
Try this
_______
< Meow >
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_______
< Meow >
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\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||This 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.
Yes, 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-5...
See my comment here: https://github.com/ivanceras/svgbob/issues/11#issuecomment-5...
Also check out Markdeep, which provides this (and a whole lot more) via JS: http://casual-effects.com/markdeep/#features
What 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.
What is the name of the tool?
PlantUML, probably.
A thread from 9 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19857349
Also 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14422777
Also 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14422777
Nice. I'd like the other direction. SVG -> ASCII
That 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?
The best I've found is emacs picture-mode.
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ba...
Here is a good summary:
http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_ascii_diagram.html
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ba...
Here is a good summary:
http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_ascii_diagram.html
I 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.
For general chart drawing (box, lines, arrows, text) I've used asciiflow[0] a few times.
[0] http://asciiflow.com/
[0] http://asciiflow.com/
I can second that. It also supports import which I then use to update documentation.
If 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).
I 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.
I'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?
Surely, a good investment for anyone above minimum wage who does ascii art periodically on a mac?
What 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
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
What 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.
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.
Shameless plug: https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/asciigrid/
The website itself is an interactive editor, for what that's worth
Sometimes works with https://www.asciiart.eu
For example: https://www.asciiart.eu/cartoons/felix-the-cat
For example: https://www.asciiart.eu/cartoons/felix-the-cat
Seriously, that is very cool! I wonder how PlantUML diagrams would look in Svgbob or Markdeep, if they were imported from text.
Nice !
Now I just need to be able to have org mode source blocks for that .
This is pretty impressive. Are there builds for a cli?
Well the project's workspace defines svgbob and svgbob_cli crates so probably.
yes, ive seen that. was just wondering whether/where there are prebuilt binaries i can download directly
https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/asciigrid/