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   tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 13:14:40 JST tom jennings

   Anyone know of an ASCII drawing program, that works in, or at least easily exports, plain text/ASCII/unicode? for linux?

   Monodraw for MacOS is GREAT. Gladly gave them money.

   https://monodraw.helftone.com/

   There's some web apps that do it, which suffice in a pinch.

   https://asciicanvas.app/

   https://asciiflow.com/

   I swear I had one for *nix years ago but no record of it.

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     Susan Calvin (susan_calvin@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 13:14:37 JST Susan Calvin

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     @tomjennings it has drawing modes. There's tools like figlet that will turn ASCII into drawings..and graphviz I think will generate ASCII.

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     tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 13:14:37 JST tom jennings

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     • Susan Calvin

     @Susan_calvin

     I'm looking for a program to do the drawing itself, with ascii as final output. Monodraw is cursor driven with commandy tweaks.

     Ascii drawings fit in source files and web pages. I haven't need for conversion to image formats, I like the compactness of text. For fairly simple metaphors of connections and data.

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     Susan Calvin (susan_calvin@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 13:14:39 JST Susan Calvin

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     @tomjennings Emacs?

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     tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 13:14:39 JST tom jennings

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     • Susan Calvin

     @Susan_calvin

     Oh my. Will have to research. I haven't used emacs in decades!

     Mostly I want to draw boxes and lines, illustration of code flow, packets, that sorta stuff.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 13:17:57 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • vga256
     @tomjennings @vga256 Shouldn't it be possible to compile it for arm64 though?
     (Or use box64 as C# can be a sharp pain to compile sometimes)
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     tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 13:17:58 JST tom jennings

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     • vga256

     @vga256

     Looks good, but windows only. I've got an arm64 linux box...

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     vga256 (vga256@dialup.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 13:17:59 JST vga256

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     @tomjennings PabloDraw?

     https://github.com/cwensley/pablodraw/releases

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     tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 14:19:36 JST tom jennings

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     • vga256

     @lanodan @vga256

     Yeah gonna try that next week.

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