DIagrams Through Ascii Art VS Textik

Ditaa Diagrams - Convert diagrams drawn in ascii art to bitmap graphics. - Source: dev.to / 1 day 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/. - 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

Thanks for this list. I find all of them are missing features that I would want for diagrams I hand made recently. Of the ones on this list only one seems to handle diagonals ( https://textik.com/ ) and that doesn't have a fill function AFAIK The diagram I wanted to draw would be something like this https://pastebin.com/NPXFS1Fi I created the box and triangle in textik.com but I had to manually edit a bunch of... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months 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/ or https://textik.com/ or https://asciiflow.com/#/ or https://web.archive.org/web/20210503172024/https://fatiherikli.github.io/archetype/ or https://app.monosketch.io [1]: https://xosh.org/text-to-diagram/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

Not OP, but I came across these very nice tools for drawing in ASCII https://textik.com and https://asciiflow.com. Source: almost 2 years ago

It does, but that selects and moves the cells not the objects and then redraws the cells? Actually, going back to have a play I see that it does allow some modification of existing objects but it isn't terribly flexible. I've just done a quick search and found one that I've not spotted before, which is a bit closer to what I want in that one respect, but not nearly complete overall (and not seen a check-in in 8... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

BTW: well I do not have tested these yet: _I only have tested textik.com/. Source: over 2 years ago