[Question] How to draw such a beautiful ASCII chart?

[tan-wei]

Thanks for the update for tlborm. I have a question which is not related to the content of the book.

We can see such a beautiful ASCII chart in the book, such as:

┌─────────┐   ┌─────────┐
│ BinOp   │ ┌╴│ LitInt  │
│ op: Add │ │ │ val: 1  │
│ lhs: ◌  │╶┘ └─────────┘
│ rhs: ◌  │╶┐ ┌─────────┐
└─────────┘ └╴│ LitInt  │
              │ val: 2  │
              └─────────┘

So is there any tool to draw this? Or just manually input by ourselves? Thanks very much!

[Veykril]

Those were taken over from the original, so I don't know if a tool was used for them unfortunately but I would believe so.

[tan-wei]

OK, thank you all the same.
@DanielKeep is inactive in Github for quite a long time, the best way is to ask him directly. However, I think he will not response. So I raise an issue here.

[DanielKeep]

No tool, just a text editor and several custom compose sequences. I recall trying a few "ascii drawing" tools, but found all of them to be more time consuming to use than just doing it by hand.

This was a while ago, so I could be wrong, but I believe I used Sublime Text. Oh, and if your editor supports it, use overwrite mode to keep things from moving around. For compose key sequences, I use WinCompose. Unfortunately, I built a new machine a while ago, and I lost my compose key file in the process. I believe it was mostly sequences like <Multi_key> <b> <d> <u> <r> for "box draw up right" to produce └.

And time. Quite a bit of time. Good luck!

[tan-wei]

@DanielKeep Wow, thanks for your reply. I thought you would not reply here.

I've tried some ASCII drawing tools, they're not that handy and the results are not beautiful. So I feel intersting about the ASCII chart. Beautiful things always need much more time. Thanks for your advice.

The issue should be closed now.