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| figlet | goat | |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 3 | |
| 1,284 | 603 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 3.7 | |
| 8 months ago | 6 days ago | |
| C | Go | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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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)
http://www.figlet.org/
- 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)
goat
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Show HN: Typograms, Markdown-like renderer for ASCII diagrams
Not on the list of related work is "GoAT" (Go ASCII Tool):
https://github.com/blampe/goat
- ASCII art for semantic code commenting
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Generate Flowcharts from Text
For (1), I am sold on goat. ASCII art to SVG, from the command line:
https://github.com/blampe/goat
Embed diagrams in source code comments; build script greps through and writes out an SVG.
What are some alternatives?
neofetch - 🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+
venn.nvim - Draw ASCII diagrams in Neovim
figlet-fonts - my collection of figlet / toilet ascii art fonts
asciiflow - ASCIIFlow
virgo - Graph-based Declarative Configuration Language
arttime - arttime is a CLI application that blends beauty of ASCII / text art with functionality of clock / timer / pattern-based time manager in terminal ⏰
mermaid - Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown
openbox - Openbox Window Manager (OpenboxWM)
FedCM - A privacy preserving identity exchange Web API
libredwg - Official mirror of libredwg. With CI hooks and nightly releases. PR's ok
kroki - Creates diagrams from textual descriptions!