Ditta: DIagrams Through Ascii Art (ditaa.org)

The original utility on SF http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/ and some addons http://ditaa-addons.sourceforge.net/

Ditaa has also been integrated with in orgmode for emacs - http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#playingwithditaa

Neat, we usenet dinosaurs love making diagrams in ascii art. By the way Jave looks like a perfect complement to this: http://www.jave.de/

I thought it was going to be a program for helping me draw Ascii art diagrams. I was disappointed. It's a program for converting Ascii art into graphical diagrams.

  (setq ditaa-cmd "java -jar ~/.emacs.d/ditaa0_9.jar")
  (defun ditaa-generate ()
    (interactive)
    (shell-command
      (concat ditaa-cmd " -o -r " buffer-file-name))
    (find-file (concat (file-name-sans-extension buffer-file-name) ".png")))

It's nice, but the problem is the ASCII art is, imho, even harder to generate than the flowcharts.

My advice would be to add an option to take formatted lists, sequences, text, etc. and change those into flowcharts. There you'd have a winner.

(Kind of like the new and super cool smart charts in Office)

Have the respect of correctly spelling the name of the application you're linking to.

s/ditta/ditaa/

It looks pretty neat , however i can't really see any usage on it ,its way faster to use a program with a gui where you can draw those diagrams instead of witting ascii ...

Could anyone suggest a good usage of this program ?

Hey, I developed ditaa! Comments/suggestions welcome :-)