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figlet
- ASCII Art: From a Commodity into an Obscurity
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Useless CLI tools
Figlet: makes big text with ascii art. http://www.figlet.org/
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Fun and Useful CLI Tools for Linux
Need to change font, size, italics? - Not a problem. The tool knows how to do this simply with argulet.
- figlet – a program for making large letters out of ordinary text
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Ask HN: What are some interesting examples of Prolog?
figlet is the classic tool to generate these, toilet is a slightly more modern reimplementation with some added features (like color)
- Where can I find a text bubble text generator for code comments similar to the link below?
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ASCII art for semantic code commenting
I love this and I'm going to use it for fancy comments in code and in the browser console. It'd be really cool if you could integrate something like http://www.figlet.org/ for inserting ASCII text art.
I wish I had known about this tool when I building this little browser game https://replit.com/@aMoniker/Gush because all the levels & game objects are generated from multiline strings of ascii symbols, and it just took too long to do manually.
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Happy 30th Birthday, Linux!
Tip: use figlet next time.
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Finally switched back to Linux
Terminal programs: Neofetch (Top left), Figlet (Top right), Ranger (Bottom left), Neovim (Bottom right)
KeenWrite
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Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
KeenWrite is my free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown editor that can produce beautifully typeset PDFs. I started working on it years ago to help write a novel that has a complex timeline and I couldn't find a text editor that would allow me to integrate a character sheet with the story itself.
https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite
Tutorials:
* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9...
Here's what I mean by using variables directly:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFCqe3A5dFg
CommonMark doesn't propose a standard for bibliographic references. Would anyone find the editor more appealing if it had cross-references and citations?
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Documentation as Code for Cloud Using PlantUML
My cross-platform desktop text editor, KeenWrite, allows users to define variables in an external YAML file. The editor calls out to Kroki[1] to convert text-based diagrams to SVG. The diagrams can reference variables and are rendered using EchoSVG[2].
KeenWrite[3] can produce PDF documentation from Markdown documents that has PlantUML diagrams with elements stored in an external, machine-readable file. Here are screenshots showing variables on the left, diagram text in the middle, and a real-time render on the right:
* https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/main/...
* https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/main/...
KeenWrite supports all diagrams offered by Kroki, which includes "diagram-plantuml".
[1]: https://kroki.io/
- On why Markdown is not a good, or even a half-decent, markup language
- MdBook – Create book from Markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust
- KeenWrite 3.3.2: MermaidJS diagrams (with caveat)
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Interactive CommonMark Tutorial
Although not interactive, I've created a video series that shows advanced usage of Markdown. Namely R, external variables, diagrams, math, annotations, and a different approach to metadata:
* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9...
Tutorial 4 shows basic Markdown:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNbGSiRzx-0
The top-right of each video shows keyboard and mouse clicks to help follow along.[1] My desktop text editor, KeenWrite[2], is used in the tutorials.
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“Exit Traps” Can Make Your Bash Scripts Way More Robust and Reliable
https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/main/scripts/bu...
My template script provides a way to make user-friendly shell scripts. In a script that uses the template, you define the dependencies and their sources:
DEPENDENCIES=(
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EchoSVG: SVG rasterizer library supporting level 4 selectors (Apache 2)
I didn't create the fork, nor am I affiliated with the project. I use it in my text editor, KeenWrite to rasterize SVG.
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Millions of dollars in time wasted making papers fit journal guidelines
KeenWrite Themes[1] are instructions that tell ConTeXt how to typeset XHTML documents (content) into PDF files (presentation). I made a tutorial that shows how my FOSS desktop text editor, KeenWrite[3], allows users to write in Markdown to typeset a document against a particular theme.
Before it can be used for scientific papers, it needs cross-references, which, unfortunately, aren't part of the CommonMark specification.
I posit that the vast majority of LaTeX users don't grok how to separate content from presentation. When I asked a question on TeX.SE about how to adjust the line spacing between enumerated items (spanning a couple dozen enumerated lists), the vast majority of people voted for the answer of using `\itemsep0em` to tweak each list ... individually.[4] The correct answer, IMO, is to fix the problem globally, and not waste time tweaking individual lists.
[1]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QpX70O5S30
[3]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite
[4]: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6081/reduce-space-be...
What are some alternatives?
neofetch - 🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+
markdown-preview.nvim - markdown preview plugin for (neo)vim
venn.nvim - Draw ASCII diagrams in Neovim
marktext - 📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows.
figlet-fonts - my collection of figlet / toilet ascii art fonts
typst - A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.
arttime - arttime is a CLI application that blends beauty of ASCII / text art with functionality of clock / timer / pattern-based time manager in terminal ⏰
vim-markdown - Markdown Vim Mode
openbox - Openbox Window Manager (OpenboxWM)
Zettlr - Your One-Stop Publication Workbench
libredwg - Official mirror of libredwg. With CI hooks and nightly releases. PR's ok
kroki - Creates diagrams from textual descriptions!