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Re: Monodraw

#201

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.

As a markdown veteran: Not out of the box.

What you can do is custom css for a code block or just insert html with a custom class and style that css seperately, many markdown implementations allow for injecting html into the markdown.

Re: Monodraw

#203
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

Haha, true. However, I think this one is less subjective. I just had to create it once then it works. With design, I always have the urge to change it after a week :D

Re: Monodraw

#204

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.

I'm kind of surprised that for desktop applications more people don't use Qt. It's so good for these kinds of applications!

What DO people use for (cross-platform) desktop applications these days? Find it hard to believe Electron is the only one.

Re: Monodraw

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I'm kind of surprised that for desktop applications more people don't use Qt. It's so good for these kinds of applications!

What DO people use for (cross-platform) desktop applications these days? Find it hard to believe Electron is the only one.

Qt is a popular choice. And as a user, apps made with Qt are pleasant to use.

Re: Monodraw

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I'm kind of surprised that for desktop applications more people don't use Qt. It's so good for these kinds of applications!

What DO people use for (cross-platform) desktop applications these days? Find it hard to believe Electron is the only one.

Tauri, Qt.

But I'd think Electron has more than 80% of the market.

Re: Monodraw

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Curious what some of the requested features are since it seems feature complete to me

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

+ 1 for table support

Re: Monodraw

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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.

Are you saying we should reserve the term "ASCII art" literally for text containing just the original 95 printable characters? Even if you can make a good argument for that, I fear you're fighting a losing battle.
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