ascii2svg is a command-line tool to draw SVG graphs from simple ASCII descriptions.
This is an alpha release. It works, but needs tests and customization options.
npm install -g ascii2svg
ascii2svg [--html] <input> <output>
It’ll read on stdin if <input> is -; and write on stdout if <output>
is -.
Options:
--html: wrap the resulting SVG in an HTML page so that you can open it in your browser.
This is the simplest format. Each line represents one or more links using ASCII arrows. Nodes labels can be any string without hyphen nor newline.
Example:
a -> b -> c
b -> d
The direction of the arrows is not important; you can use -, <- or ->
with as many hyphens as you want.
The example above creates a graph of 4 nodes with three edges connecting b to
all other nodes.
- You can use
browserfor quick previews:echo "a->b->c" | ascii2svg --html - - | browser