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Plain Text. With Lines
becomes a colored bar chart with three bars. So the file is both kinda readable in a plain text editor, in a browser with js disabled (with React server side rendering), and in the richest version with JS enabled. I don't have a WYSIWYG editor for the widgets though, that's pretty neat.
Full example:
Markdown:
https://github.com/phiresky/blog/blob/master/posts/2021/host...
Corresponding post with interactive widgets:
https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-database...
svg_parser
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Plain Text. With Lines
Congratulations, now you replaced a trivial file format that (from a quick glance at the code) needed about ~35 of easily readable and self-contained Lua code to parse with an external dependency that would be much larger and harder to follow and either having (at least) an XML parser as its own dependency or implementing its own XML parsing, as well as being at the mercy of their developers. Also unless you are using some highly popular library, you may end up with some abandoned dependency.
Examples of both are at [0] (C++ based parser, you'd also need to write some bindings for lua) and [1] (Lua based parser for a subset of the format, abandoned for almost a decade).
There are times when using an external dependency might be a good idea, but a text-based file format that describes lines and can be implemented in a few lines of code is not one.
[0] https://github.com/svgpp/svgpp
[1] https://github.com/luapower/svg_parser
What are some alternatives?
eastend-notebook-syntax - Atom syntax theme - East End Notebook
TekGraphics - Sample data for Tektronix graphics terminals and code for use with xterm
json.lua - A lightweight JSON library for Lua
DrawIt - Ascii drawing plugin: lines, ellipses, arrows, fills, and more!
docs - Logseq documentation
logseq - A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life.
SVG++ - C++ SVG library