how to draw graph in txt file quickly?

[robertsong]

hello,everyone.
I found that there are some graphs that is complicated in txt file, and it takes time to draw the graph in the txt file directly. Here is an example below.

+-----------+ +-----------+
| Guest | | Guest |
| A | | B |
| +---+ | | +---+ |
| |NIC| | | |NIC| |
+---+-+-+---+ +---+-+-+---+
^ +--------+ +--------+ ^
| | | | | |
+------>+ VLAN 0 +<--> Socket <-->+ VLAN 2 +<------+
| | | |
+--------+ +--------+


Is there some tool that can draw these graphs quickly and can be converted to be displayed in txt file ?

besh wishes,
robert

[robertsong]

hello,everyone.
I found that there are some graphs that is complicated in txt file, and it takes time to draw the graph in the txt file directly. Here is an example below.

+-----------+ +-----------+
| Guest | | Guest |
| A | | B |
| +---+ | | +---+ |
| |NIC| | | |NIC| |
+---+-+-+---+ +---+-+-+---+
^ +--------+ +--------+ ^
| | | | | |
+------>+ VLAN 0 +<--> Socket <-->+ VLAN 2 +<------+
| | | |
+--------+ +--------+


Is there some tool that can draw these graphs quickly and can be converted to be displayed in txt file ?

besh wishes,
robert

well, the graph format is bad, Here is the link to show the example:
QEMU Networking

[drl]

Hi.

See man pic -- an excerpt:

PIC(1)                                                                  PIC(1)

NAME
       pic - compile pictures for troff or TeX

SYNOPSIS
       pic [ -nvCSU ] [ filename ... ]
       pic -t [ -cvzCSU ] [ filename ... ]

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page describes the GNU version of pic, which is part of the
       groff document formatting system.  pic compiles  descriptions  of  pic-
       tures  embedded  within troff or TeX input files into commands that are
       understood by TeX or troff.

Best wishes ... cheers, drl

[drl]

Hi.

Regrettably in trying to provide an example of pic-to-ascii diagrams, I have not yet been able to find an output driver for groff that will translate pic output into ascii.

I'll stop back when / if I find anything ... cheers, drl

[robertsong]

Hi.

Regrettably in trying to provide an example of pic-to-ascii diagrams, I have not yet been able to find an output driver for groff that will translate pic output into ascii.

I'll stop back when / if I find anything ... cheers, drl

drl:
thank you very much.
I will take a try.

Best wishes,
robert

[kai12]

hi robert,

do you use vim?
there is a vim plugin called "sketch" which lets you draw ascii picture directly.
you can draw freehand, but there's also support for boxes, arrows, copying, etc.
you can check out the tutorial here.

the plugin is available at vim.org.

cheers, kai

PS there are also other plugins for drawing in vim - i haven't tried them.

[robertsong]

kai,
thank you for your reply.
It is a nice plugin, and is what I need, although not work so well with vim 7.x.

best wishes,
robert

hi robert,

do you use vim?
there is a vim plugin called "sketch" which lets you draw ascii picture directly.
you can draw freehand, but there's also support for boxes, arrows, copying, etc.
you can check out the tutorial here.

the plugin is available at vim.org.

cheers, kai

PS there are also other plugins for drawing in vim - i haven't tried them.

[kai12]

oh, too bad.
it's working for me in gvim 7.0 -- i've installed the plain debian vim packages.

kai