DIagrams Through Ascii Art Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• AsciidocFX: The Asciidoc Editor for documentation and authoring

  Ditaa Diagrams - Convert diagrams drawn in ascii art to bitmap graphics. - Source: dev.to / 2 days ago

• Monodraw

  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

• Adding ASCII export to my grid based low-fi wireframing app TinyUX

  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

• Monodraw – a non-subscription, powerful ASCII art editor

  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

• Kroki - Diagrams from textual descriptions!

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

• Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid

  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

• Ask HN: General Purpose Diagram Tool

  Maybe Ditaa? http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/ Emacs support...and org-mode babel, too. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• I'm the author of Rich and Textual, two highly starred Python projects on Github. AMA

  You may wish to check out Diagrams Through Ascii Art. Source: over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: What diagrams do you use in software development?

  I mainly use diagrams in documentation and not in specification or development (although tools I am learning to use, such as Alloy [0], for specifications do generate diagrams of the state). In documentation I typically use a mix of ditaa[1], mermaid[2], and graphviz[3]. I used ditaa for architecture diagrams, a mix of sequence, flow chart, and ER diagrams in mermaid to explain protocols or interactions; and I use... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago