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Ditta: DIagrams Through Ascii Art

34 points| tianyicui | 15 years ago |ditaa.org | reply

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[+] ComputerGuru|15 years ago|reply
It's nice, but the problem is the ASCII art is, imho, even harder to generate than the flowcharts.

My advice would be to add an option to take formatted lists, sequences, text, etc. and change those into flowcharts. There you'd have a winner.

(Kind of like the new and super cool smart charts in Office)

[+] sideris|15 years ago|reply
Hey, I developed ditaa! Comments/suggestions welcome :-)
[+] Sidnicious|15 years ago|reply
You are the good kind of crazy :)

My OS doesn't use a monospaced font for textareas by default, so the ASCII art is unreadable. Mind setting a font-family?

[+] Vivtek|15 years ago|reply
Your ideas fascinate me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
[+] ffffruit|15 years ago|reply
You are a very handsome young man.
[+] eliben|15 years ago|reply
Have the respect of correctly spelling the name of the application you're linking to.

s/ditta/ditaa/

[+] wazoox|15 years ago|reply
Neat, we usenet dinosaurs love making diagrams in ascii art. By the way Jave looks like a perfect complement to this: http://www.jave.de/
[+] asdfor|15 years ago|reply
It looks pretty neat , however i can't really see any usage on it ,its way faster to use a program with a gui where you can draw those diagrams instead of witting ascii ...

Could anyone suggest a good usage of this program ?

[+] wladimir|15 years ago|reply
Some dinosaurs (such as me) are used to doing diagrams the ASCII way, and just fumble around with GUI tools :)

Also, the diagrams also look pretty nice graphically, better than the output of most GUI-based diagram tools, at least the free ones.

[+] Vivtek|15 years ago|reply
Diagrams in comments stored with code, that get rendered nicely with a presentation style for the code. Useful tool in a literate programming toolbox.
[+] tome|15 years ago|reply
I thought it was going to be a program for helping me draw Ascii art diagrams. I was disappointed. It's a program for converting Ascii art into graphical diagrams.