DIagrams Through Ascii Art VS LaTeXDraw

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/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

Love it! If you've never looked into it, you might find the old ditaa inspiring. Looks like you're already well on your way to a product, though. Source: over 1 year ago

Something not mentioned here is http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/ This project is in java (ew) but it's open source and could probably use a rewrite in something more modern. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

Ditaa - a small command-line utility written in Java, that can convert diagrams drawn using ascii art. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

It would be nice to have this tool: http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/ So ASCII drawings could be rendered into pretty ones. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

For the figures including TeX' annotation, both latexdraw and ipe, the later especially after the discovery of two tutorial videos (Introduction to Ipe drawing editor - Tools, Properties, & Snapping and How to create these figures in Ipe drawing editor). Both programs may be used either in Linux, Mac, Windows. For ipe, I like that the underlying LaTeX source code is embedded in the .pdf, so there is a way to... Source: over 1 year ago

If you are looking for application, then take a look at LaTexDraw. Source: over 1 year ago