LaTeXDraw VS DIagrams Through Ascii Art

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

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