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Re: Monodraw

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I'll never understand willingly restricting yourself to one desktop platform. Especially with a paid app. Oh well. Looks nice

I share similar caution with tools and multi-platforms (specifically Mac, Win & Linux). However, the format is interchangeable with other Ascii drawing apps and it isn't too expensive. So I'm totally fine with it.

Re: Monodraw

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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.

You could use a browser that supports extensions on Andriod, iOS will protect you from such nefarious things though.

Re: Monodraw

#153
Really wish this was cross platform. Would love to use this in Linux.

I appreciate the effort that it takes to deliver a polished application. I just wish more tooling did better to target Linux, Windows and Mac for desktop apps. Probably a larger driver behind web based apps.

Re: Monodraw

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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...)

I think it's the ◀ character. It looks like Chrome (I'm on Windows) makes it wider than other Characters. I think ▶ has this same problem. But from a quick scan, I don't see any other place in the file where one of those characters is used in a way that it being extra wide would be noticable.

For web it'll really vary by font family availability and fallback. Personally I like the nerd don't variant for Inconsolata, Cascadia Coffee and Firs Code for fixed width usage.

I wish self packaging similar to how Google Fonts does it was easier to do. IE breaking up the don't into glyph segments to reduce unused characters for languages not used.

Re: Monodraw

#155

I maintain a list [1] of main web based text to diagram tools including ascii drawing tools like these. Web alternatives for this are probably https://fsymbols.com/draw/ or https://textik.com/ or https://asciiflow.com/#/ or https://web.archive.org/web/20210503172024/https://fatiherik... or https://app.monosketch.io [1]: https://xosh.org/text-to-diagram/

Years ago I made a simple one that I still host at https://letterbrush.com

Re: Monodraw

#156
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I love this tool. This is one of those that you buy it and keep it, even if you use it once a while.

Have you had this for a long time, or are you speculating that it’s the type of software you like? This looks very cool to me, though. If you have used it, can you share how you’ve used the generated diagrams? I can imagine a screenshot of the diagram, but the raw text would probably be too big in (e.g. a terminal).

Try installing figlet, for banner text.

At its simplest:

    figlet "Text"
or use fonts

    figlet -f small "Small Text"

     ___            _ _   _____        _
    / __|_ __  __ _| | | |_   _|____ _| |_
    \__ \ '  \/ _` | | |   | |/ -_) \ /  _|
    |___/_|_|_\__,_|_|_|   |_|\___/_\_\\__|

Re: Monodraw

#157

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

I use ASCIIFlow all the time. I still haven't figured out how to get browsers to render the monospace fonts correctly see example diagram on this page: http://uggly.bytester.net/#how-it-works

First is using a monospace font, second is aligning line height to font height. Third includes a bit of tweaking and trying different sizes.

Your best bet is to use a good fixed width don't with broad character support. Some are better or worse than others. Cascadia Code and Fira Code work pretty well with differing characteristics and both have nerd don't variants.

Emoji alignment is another problem.

Re: Monodraw

#158
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The main requests have been for: - Plaintext format (in progress) - Dark mode support for the main canvas (in progress) - Auto/Dynamic Layout - Table support - ANSI export

What does "plaintext format" mean? Isn't it already plaintext?

to offer a guess, I assume plantext probably means plain ASCII or maybe extended US ASCII (adds IBM box drawing chars, etc.) As opposed to full unicode text charset.

Re: Monodraw

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Pikchar is another to consider for your list. From the creator of SQLite… https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/doc/userman.md

It's the second item on the list already.

Yes but you only listed it once!

Re: Monodraw

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How do you set options for chrome on iPhone and android? Sorry for the naive question, I never figured this out.

You could use a browser that supports extensions on Andriod, iOS will protect you from such nefarious things though.

iOS supports browser extensions, and has done for some time - e.g. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/makeover-custom-css/id16023611... (which demonstrates custom HN CSS in the demo screenshots!)
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