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Re:Sparks: A typeface for creating sparklines in text withou... by kevincox on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @02:28PM (#23094583)
An interesting, but possibly not useful feature is that you can copy the datapoints very easily.
Re:Sparks: A typeface for creating sparklines in text withou... by njharman on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @06:02PM (#23096861)
I'd say that is super useful as someone who

1) cuts and pastes into plain text files often

2) often wishes to take data from charts and munge it, although sparklines are probably too informationally sparse to bother.

Re:Sparks: A typeface for creating sparklines in text withou... by swyx on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @03:34PM (#23095308)
i was gonna ask how but then i tried it... very cool! i agree not very useful unless you want to do manual translation haha
Re:Sparks: A typeface for creating sparklines in text withou... by keithnz on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @10:17PM (#23098960)
only problem is the data is scaled to 0-100 so you won't know the real values