According to [0], the illustrations in "ØMQ - The Guide" [1] are made using asciitosvg. See, for example, the illustration following the "Divide and Conquer" heading:
Sometimes the product have not been polished, or it's a concept, so you need to sell the product before even showing it. Once the customer has made his/her mind they are unlikely to change it. And then you work with the customer to improve the product to meet their expectations. Meanwhile if you would have shown the product/prototype without any selling they would have made up their mind and never come back or given any feedback. I know you are a busy person, and so am I - I just want to see the damn output, I don't have time to run it and see for myself even if it just takes 10 minutes. But if I'm not willing to do that, then it's very unlikely I'll invest in it anyway, even if it's very good.
Good job! I totally agree with the author on this:
> So I thought, "What if I could combine all these things and start writing markdown documents for my technical designs -- complete with ASCII art diagrams -- that I could then prettify for presentation purposes?"
If it's intended to be embedded in Markdown documents and published as web sites, it could be a web component.
I made an experimental one [0] and here's a demo [1].
I'm too lazy to follow through so hoping someone to make a full-fledged web component for it.
> Who wants to do the NodeJS, Python, Go, Rust and Haskell reimplementations?
I already requested as issue[0] Python port. In comments to this issue some user give me link to `aafigure`[1,2] project, that available as plugin[3] for AsciiDoc too.
Kinda related, I want an app that takes a picture of a hand drawn diagram and converts that to SVG (or whatever format I could later edit digitally). That would be a great way to bootstrap a large diagram, as it seems all diagram editors lose to pen & paper.
Not exactly what you described, but I'm a big fan of Grafio for iPad as a diagram tool, because 'sketching' is the primary input. You can't import something from paper, but if you've got an iPad around, you can draw on it like paper, and it'll give you the neater & better aligned counterparts of the things as you draw them.
Much better than pulling shapes out of a toolbox. Or typing.
Not sure what that is, but probably not -- it should be able to detect simple geometrical shapes (and label them), lines/arrows between shapes, and ofcourse text. Perhaps I'll try to build that :)
