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Re: Monodraw

#191
Is there a markdown flavor that allows for font size changes mid-document? It seems like you'd struggle to embed higher-fidelity diagrams that don't encounter issues with wrapping in markdown unless you can also reduce the font size for some diagrams.

Re: Monodraw

#195
Yes, easily my longest lasting ASCII tool in the box. Used it last year for an album cover - https://ynac.bandcamp.com/album/medulla-assemblongata and I use it for my ASCII sites and ASCII ads as well. Loads on launch and rarely gets more than 5 or 6 from the left.

I'll resist posting an ascii heart, a Monodraw heart through it, but it's hard not to.

Re: Monodraw

#196
Claude 3 racecar lol

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Re: Monodraw

#197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Context is important, ya know? If we're talking about text encodings, that's one thing, but we're talking about drawing. "ASCII text" drawing was never entirely limited to ASCII even in the days of single-byte encodings. There were code pages which used the high bit for more useful drawing glyphs, people took advantage of that when they could. The concept of an extended ASCII encoding goes way back: https://en.wikipe…

Extended supersets of a thing are not the thing, they are a larger group.

See synecdoche: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche

Re: Monodraw

#198

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/

Another for your list:

https://github.com/blampe/goat

Re: Monodraw

#199
post #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

Slightly ironic how you complain that other apps make you forget about content but fiddling with responsive separators and anchor points in monodraw is totally OK :) neat trick though

Re: Monodraw

#200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Context is important, ya know? If we're talking about text encodings, that's one thing, but we're talking about drawing. "ASCII text" drawing was never entirely limited to ASCII even in the days of single-byte encodings. There were code pages which used the high bit for more useful drawing glyphs, people took advantage of that when they could. The concept of an extended ASCII encoding goes way back: https://en.wikipe…

Extended supersets of a thing are not the thing, they are a larger group.

Neither a superset or subset of a thing is the thing. Only the thing is the thing.

But when you combine units of language the result is not just the sum of the parts. word1 means X and word2 means Y but established phrase "word1 word2" rarely means X + Y. The result relates to X and Y but it has a life of its own that depends on how it's used.

Think of these and how they are more than sum of their parts. Demo scene. Serverless. Skyscraper. Information security. Artificial intelligence. Drawing board.

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