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Re:Show HN: Spongedown – markdown renderer with ascii diagra... by replete on Monday October 31, 2016 @03:37PM (#12840176)
This looks very cool.

Do people actually manually write ASCII diagrams like that?

This is a great place to use Mermaid (https://github.com/knsv/mermaid)

Re:Show HN: Spongedown – markdown renderer with ascii diagra... by ivanceras on Monday October 31, 2016 @08:41PM (#12842414)
I wrote some simple ascii diagrams inline with readme and code, but never too serious. I wrote this tool to enhance the rendering of the diagram, and publish it opensource. I never did expect some people use it seriously https://github.com/ivanceras/svgbobrus/pull/6
Re:Show HN: Spongedown – markdown renderer with ascii diagra... by mpicker0 on Monday October 31, 2016 @03:51PM (#12840279)
I've used this for quick-and-dirty ASCII diagrams. They might need a bit of touching up to be usable with Spongedown. http://asciiflow.com/