Ask HN: Style guide to ASCII graphics in documentation

7 points by jdowner 7y ago ↗ HN

As the question states, does anyone know of a style guide on how to represent different kinds of objects in ascii for documentation? By objects I mean things like boxes, networks, axes... anything like that.

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chmielewski 7y ago ↗

What if you used whatever diagramming style best fits the domain you're working in, then used one of the following sites to convert the image to ASCII:

  jave.de/
  aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib

I use asciiflow.com all the time for making quick tables or ncurses mockups to copypasta via messaging.