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Comment by Minor49er

This is really interesting to play around with. There are some heuristics that are being used that seemed odd to me until I remembered that this is supposed to be for diagramming, not necessarily for ASCII art.

For instance, this draws an obtuse angle and a right angle that are not connected to each other:

  _/|__
This simply adds height to the right angle, but does not connect them:

    .   
  _/|__
But this connects both angles together with a sharp point:

    +   
  _/|__
Also, a bit of a nitpick: while I love the amount of examples, I wish they were sectioned off rather than having all of the unformatted text in a single textarea on the left and all rendered images on the right. Trying to scroll the page, I keep scrolling the textarea instead, which breaks the alignment.

Overall, super cool project. I'm looking forward to trying this in real world scenarios soon

parent Minor49er 5 years ago

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