Show HN: Ascii_tree – A way to create beautiful ASCII trees • Hacker News Board

                ┌───┐
          ┌─────┤ 1 ├─────┐
          │     └───┘     │
        ┌─┴─┐           ┌─┴─┐
      ┌─┤ 2 ├─┐       ┌─┤ 3 ├─┐
      │ └───┘ │       │ └───┘ │
    ┌─┴─┐   ┌─┴─┐   ┌─┴─┐   ┌─┴─┐
    │ 4 │   │ 5 │   │ 6 │   │ 7 │
    └───┘   └───┘   └───┘   └───┘

(Better if the presentation doesn't lead beyond the font.)

Re: Show HN: Ascii_tree – A way to create beautiful ASCII trees

#5

Post by drhodes » Sun, Sep 22, 2019, 7:01 PM UTC

kps wrote: post #4

I think that with all the unicodes lying around these days we can do a little nicer: ┌───┐ ┌─────┤ 1 ├─────┐ │ └───┘ │ ┌─┴─┐ ┌─┴─┐ ┌─┤ 2 ├─┐ ┌─┤ 3 ├─┐ │ └───┘ │ │ └───┘ │ ┌─┴─┐ ┌─┴─┐ ┌─┴─┐ ┌─┴─┐ │ 4 │ │ 5 │ │ 6 │ │ 7 │ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ (Better if the presentation doesn't lead beyond the font.)

Here's a good collection

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character

Re: Show HN: Ascii_tree – A way to create beautiful ASCII trees

#6

Post by octopoc » Sun, Sep 22, 2019, 7:16 PM UTC

Cool! With some minor alterations you could add support for ditaa output [1]. That would allow you to convert the trees to PNGs.

[1] http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/

Re: Show HN: Ascii_tree – A way to create beautiful ASCII trees

#7

Post by dole » Sun, Sep 22, 2019, 7:19 PM UTC

baalimago wrote: post #2

The lack of centering is itching my ocd.

Real world or lorem ipsum examples would give a better idea of how beautiful the trees are than just single digits.

Re: Show HN: Ascii_tree – A way to create beautiful ASCII trees

#8

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Sep 22, 2019, 7:39 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Ascii_tree – A way to create beautiful ASCII trees

#9

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Sep 22, 2019, 7:40 PM UTC

kps wrote: post #4

I think that with all the unicodes lying around these days we can do a little nicer: ┌───┐ ┌─────┤ 1 ├─────┐ │ └───┘ │ ┌─┴─┐ ┌─┴─┐ ┌─┤ 2 ├─┐ ┌─┤ 3 ├─┐ │ └───┘ │ │ └───┘ │ ┌─┴─┐ ┌─┴─┐ ┌─┴─┐ ┌─┴─┐ │ 4 │ │ 5 │ │ 6 │ │ 7 │ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ (Better if the presentation doesn't lead beyond the font.)

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Re: Show HN: Ascii_tree – A way to create beautiful ASCII trees

#10

Post by tbrock » Sun, Sep 22, 2019, 8:25 PM UTC

kps wrote: post #4

I think that with all the unicodes lying around these days we can do a little nicer: ┌───┐ ┌─────┤ 1 ├─────┐ │ └───┘ │ ┌─┴─┐ ┌─┴─┐ ┌─┤ 2 ├─┐ ┌─┤ 3 ├─┐ │ └───┘ │ │ └───┘ │ ┌─┴─┐ ┌─┴─┐ ┌─┴─┐ ┌─┴─┐ │ 4 │ │ 5 │ │ 6 │ │ 7 │ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ └───┘ (Better if the presentation doesn't lead beyond the font.)

This is very pleasing to me.