7/30/2023 0 Comments Mac monodraw![]() OK, So what?The only thing that you ever really need for making ASCII art is ASCII characters and they are all available on the keyboard and in fact you use them on a daily basis whenever you type. ![]() You can simply open Notepad and start with adding spaces and then replacing a space with a character to see how they all sit together. * the editor offered most of the main features available in packages focused on creating line diagrams? * the character art used Unicode to smoothen the drawing and look more like lines than chunky blocks of characters? * the editor allowed you to work with the elements like they were layers? * there was something like an Editor that allowed you to draw with ASCII characters? The only issue with this is it can get tedious and painful. +-+ | +-+Ī short answer to the questions above in a picture (worth more than a thousand words) is Monodraw. It is an Editor that allows you to create text based diagrams that can be included in your source code or emails and take lesser space and most importantly are part of that document, not an external one. If you want to include a class diagram or workflow in the comments, you can simply draw the diagram, export and select the comment style. ![]() What about smart editing?One of the problems with drawing with text is adjusting the diagrams across rows and columns. Here is a quick GIF to show you how easy it is to adjust the same. You can do many of the things that you can with most softwares that provide diagramming support. The diagrams look choppyHmmmm, I would not put that to a matter of preference as diagrams made with ASCII characters do tend to be choppy, after all they can only use the shapes of the characters available. Which is why the text smileys are :) ) :D :P etc, where as there are super large animated stickers and emoji available these days. It is the unicode characters that come to the rescue. You might have seen plenty of signatures with upside down characters, Japanese characters to create cute characters and so on. Similarly, Mododraw uses Unicode to create better diagrams that are more line drawing than series of - and +Įven with pure ASCII characters, you can achieve so much more. ![]() For those that started using computers years ago (pre Y2K) might even recollect the blue screens with white/red text used by installers of most games. ![]()
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