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Re: Monodraw

#92
post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should select the lines you'd like to show off and link that.

You should do a quick scan of the file, it's filled with graphs in the comments, not just one.

I did. Sorry, linking seemed like a good idea so it was just a suggestion. Maybe OP didn't know that was possible.

Re: Monodraw

#93

This went into "maintenance mode" in 2018, has anything changed? https://blog.helftone.com/monodraw-maintenance-mode/

From the FAQ at the bottom > Why not open source the app? > > Maintaining an open-source project can be a significant amount of work and I'm not going to have the time to take on such responsibilities. Furthermore, open-sourcing full products tends to result in many clones being sold directly to unsuspecting customers which is not something I want to enable. It's strange how both of those statements are incorrect...…

As someone who has worked on an open source product with a commercial version, the FAQ matches my experience. I think you're letting you're mixing up is and ought.

Re: Monodraw

#94
post #81

Looks nice. https://asciiflow.com/ is a web-based alternative that's been my go-to for a decade.

Doesn't look like screen readers can read the text on these.

I believe you can treat it as if it were an image by putting it an element with attributes role="img" aria-label="description of the diagram goes here"

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A...

Re: Monodraw

#97
post #43

OMG this is one of my favorite tools paid for it all the way back when it went out. Have used it so many times just to write documentation for things like: https://github.com/ivank/potygen/blob/main/packages/potygen/... ASCII is just so versatile and allows you to put nice graphics in places where one does not expect, making things more easily understandable.

Hmm, the "With Expression" diagram on line 656 looks fine in emacs, but in chrome at that actual link, everything on the right is mangled. (The characters look fine, it looks like github's font choices do poorly with the "load bearing whitespace" for the extended bits...)

Re: Monodraw

#98
post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems to only mess it up on mobile. Desktop Chrome seems fine. Mobile Chrome is all I've tested on.

Ah, in that case you might want: text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; (it's infuriating that these options need to exist!)

How do you set options for chrome on iPhone and android?

Sorry for the naive question, I never figured this out.

Re: Monodraw

#99
I always end back with monodraw. Other apps have too many features and style possibilities that you forget about the content. With monodraw I never get distracted.

However, it still has enough functionality that you can achieve a lot of things. One of my favorites are the anchors. I have even created a small demo/tutorial: https://tamasruss.com/articles/monodraw-anchors

Re: Monodraw

#100
post #43

OMG this is one of my favorite tools paid for it all the way back when it went out. Have used it so many times just to write documentation for things like: https://github.com/ivank/potygen/blob/main/packages/potygen/... ASCII is just so versatile and allows you to put nice graphics in places where one does not expect, making things more easily understandable.

Those corners look like Unicode block chars.

Yeah, "BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT UP AND LEFT" and "BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT DOWN AND LEFT". (If this were ASCII, it would have used | ("VERTICAL LINE") instead of "BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL".)
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