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user7858768

Reputation: 1026

Tool for generating ASCII diagrams from some markup?

Is there a tool that generates ASCII diagrams from some sort of mark up.

Use case: to be able to quickly create and edit diagrams that are embeddable into javadoc (or any other comments).

Something along the lines of allowing us to write some mark up:

A--HAS-->B
B--HAS-->C

And the tool would generate a visualization:





               +----+             +-----+        
               | A  |-----HAS-----|  B  |        
               +----+             +-----+        
                                     |           
                                     | HAS       
                                     |           
                                  +--|---+       
                                  | C    |       
                                  |      |       
                                  +------+

Without having to draw it in a tool such as https://textik.com/

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1056

Answers (2)

Edward Doolittle
Edward Doolittle

Reputation: 4100

Take a look at Graph::Easy http://bloodgate.com/perl/graph/manual/index.html . It has a syntax very similar to dot from the GraphViz package, and can even take as input some dot files. It also accepts input in its own very simple syntax, and can provide output in a number of formats including ASCII but also graphical formats.

Upvotes: 0

pylover
pylover

Reputation: 8065

The ADia project aims to render ASCII diagrams using a human-readable language:

diagram: Foo
sequence:
foo -> bar: Hello World!

Output

 DIAGRAM: Foo                             

 +-----+             +-----+
 | foo |             | bar |
 +-----+             +-----+
    |                   |
    |~~~Hello World!~~~>|
    |                   |
    |<------------------|
    |                   |
 +-----+             +-----+
 | foo |             | bar |
 +-----+             +-----+

Read the documentation or Try the live demo page at github.io.

Upvotes: 1

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