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Show HN: Typograms, Markdown-like renderer for ASCII diagrams

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  1. Infinite ASCII diagrams, save to Google Drive, resize, freeform draw, and export straight to text/html.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Diagrams #Flowcharts #UML 30 social mentions

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    Creates diagrams from textual descriptions! It provides a unified API with support for BlockDiag, BPMN, Bytefield, C4 (with PlantUML), Ditaa, Erd, GraphViz, Mermaid, Nomnoml, PlantUML, SvgBob, UMLet, Vega, Vega-Lite, WaveDrom
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    My desktop text editor, KeenWrite[0], allows referencing variables within the main document text and figures. KeenWrite uses Kroki[1] to provide a wealth of diagram formats. In the screenshots[2], a Graphviz-based family tree is shown that uses character names sourced from an external YAML file. Those same variables can be used when writing prose. Change the variable in a single location and the family tree is updated and rendered immediately. You can't do that with Google Docs, Lucid Chart, Word, OpenOffice, Scrivener, etc. [0]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite [1]: https://kroki.io/ [2]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/docs/screenshots.md#variables.

    #Diagrams #Flowcharts #Prototyping 31 social mentions

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