silicon VS svgbobrus

There is silicon.nvim that uses the cli tool silicon to export the code as an image (I think there is also an alternative that uses carbon). There is also vim-copy-as-rtf that works only on OSx and Code2RTF.vim that works only on Windows (there was a fork of vim-copy-as-rtf for Linux, but I can't find it). Finally, there is this discussion about alternatives, being one of them to use pandoc and :TOHtml to export the text as RTF

Use Carbon or if you want a program there is silicon

Have you seen https://github.com/Aloxaf/silicon by the way?

Another one in Rust: https://github.com/Aloxaf/silicon

You can use https://carbon.now.sh/ for this!Find the CLI here: https://github.com/mixn/carbon-now-cliAlternative: Silicon (Rust): https://github.com/Aloxaf/silicon

You can follow directions here on how to install it on your system.

Silicon (CLI)

I recently had to draw some diagrams for documenting something. After looking at various Markdown-friendly options I landed on svgbob[1]. I believe it's a superior solution to these kinds of graph drawing tools for Markdown for one specific reason: the code is still readable. When I go to look at a Markdown file I don't always open the output. I will commonly open up a README file in Vim or just cat it to the terminal. In this case diagrams like those in this post is next to useless. I'm not going to read through some complex drawing definitions and try to visualise the results. With svgbob (or Typograms[2] or any of the other similar options) you can still read the Markdown text document and see the diagrams which is great!

Of course this comes with a tradeoff, drawing the diagrams can be a bit of a pain. But I believe this can be solved by a good Markdown editor or editor plugin. Alternatively a spec like this could be converted into an svgbob-compatible diagram.

[1]https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/

Online playground svgbob-editor is also updated to use the latest version of svgbob. It is however a painfully slow to edit the diagrams from there, so it's better if you draw the diagram somwhere else and paste it to there.

There’s Svgbob. Plus when it comes to more complex diagrams or graphs where creating the ASCII art by hand in can be quite finicky, there’s a number of tools (including drawing tools) to make creating ASCII art much easier.

https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/

svgbob

Since the post contains ASCII art, let me recommend you svgbob :)

The app can now render Svgbob code blocks (https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor).