Markdeep

Funny enough, browsing without Javascript resulted in the same plain text appearing in both windows. I was nearly ready to comment about how easy that is with a pair of &lt;pre&gt; tags. :)<p>That said, I&#x27;m OK with it degrading like that. The text file is perfectly readable, and conveys the information within quite well. I even kind of preferred it.<p>So, yeah. Great job, OP.

I don&#x27;t get it. Why would I do diagrams in ascii when I can use any one of dozens of good programs and export the result via DVI or PDF. I guess it must might be nice if I want to read the document on a text console, but I don&#x27;t see that use case coming up nearly often enough to justify learning yet another version of markdown and commit to doing diagrams with ascii art.

I think org-mode can do that too (and much more I guess).<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;home.fnal.gov&#x2F;~neilsen&#x2F;notebook&#x2F;orgExamples&#x2F;org-examples.html#sec-5" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;home.fnal.gov&#x2F;~neilsen&#x2F;notebook&#x2F;orgExamples&#x2F;org-examp...</a>

Combine with <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;asciiflow.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;asciiflow.com&#x2F;</a> and ascii heaven comes closer ;)

RST could do this - but I like Markdeep&#x27;s simplified way (no &quot;directives&quot;)<p>Now if all editors could come up with a compatible ascii graphic drawing tool that would actually be useable.

Nice setup, but its very cumbersome to write graphs in ascii, i prefer DOT if i dont care about layout too much, otherwise i use gliffy or something like that. For simple diagrams this is nice. However i think the main reason to use this is not diagrams. However then i think its better to use Markdown since most people know that.

The author seems very proud of the automatic-rendering JS they&#x27;ve written, and it&#x27;s kind of cute but personally I&#x27;d much rather a batch-conversion tool.<p>On the other hand, that ASCII-art-to-SVG conversion is golden, and I&#x27;d absolutely love to have that supported in my API docs and blog-posts.

After 10 seconds of inspection: no, not a good idea, don&#x27;t think this solves a nice problem.<p>Speaking as a PL &amp; s-exp guy, I don&#x27;t really have a problem writing<p>(bullets (item &quot;pick up milk&quot;) (item &quot;drop off desk&quot;))<p>... but at the end of the day, I see that I can convey the same structure in a clearer way using markdown. Markdown is lovely because it&#x27;s the <i>thinnest possible skin</i> over the structure; you can immediately see what structure the syntax is attaching. (Yes, there&#x27;s still some parsing nastiness around paragraphs). This thing, though, doesn&#x27;t have that &quot;brilliant solution to a simple but really important problem&quot; feel to it. I don&#x27;t see this catching on.<p>Of course, I said the same thing about the internet in the spring of 1993.

So frustrating that both Markdown and this don&#x27;t support underlines.

The ASCII to graph feature reminds me of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;knsv&#x2F;mermaid" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;knsv&#x2F;mermaid</a> .<p>But I like the more WYSIWYG approach (if I dare say) of Markdeep.

I am thinking of using this for my personal website. It has been a while since I have had to think about licenses, and I am having trouble thinking this one through.<p><i>Markdeep is open source. You may use, extend, and redistribute Markdeep without charge under the terms of the BSD license: ... Markdeep includes markdown.js, so you are also bound by the MIT license (which is BSD-compatible): ... ...and the highlight.js BSD license: </i><p>If I understand correctly that means I have to serve all three licenses in my HTML?

Nice, you could also do something to embed <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;yuml.me" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;yuml.me</a> diagrams for converting text into diagrams?

Might want to make sure you spell your inspiration&#x27;s name correctly (ie, not Grubber)

the ability to turn txt into a diagram is intriguing

Where exactly is the source code?

This looks pretty sweet! (On a sidenote, I&#x27;m trying to figure out whether making the documentation look like daringfireball.net was intentional or not.)

Neat, but offering only minified JS is not in the spirit of open source imho

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reelsense&#x2F;markdeep" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reelsense&#x2F;markdeep</a>

The Flash Of Unstyled Content is strong with this one.

I&#x27;m still kinda noob at javascript.<p>Can I call this on a string using a function, returning an html string, rather do it for the whole page?

Why do people keep reinventing LaTeX?

ditaa?

I know you can&#x27;t exactly copyright a color scheme, but it might be a good idea to not so closely copy Daring Fireball.