On: ReStructuredText vs. Markdown for documentation

[mzs]

Anyone remember that Show HN which let you create diagrams from simple text like this:

    A <----- B -----\
                    |
                    V
                    C

Then there was a link in the discussion to a similar tool.

[mzs → mzs]

Found it thanks to the two suggestions below and a search, shaky:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10290073

[mafuyu → mzs]

http://asciiflow.com/ ?

[telotortium → mzs]

Ditaa? http://ditaa.sourceforge.net

[glenndebacker → mzs]

I was searching last month for a markdown for charts tool and I stumbled on mermaid (https://knsv.github.io/mermaid/)

Still haven't time to play with it, but it looks nice.

[flarg → mzs]

You might also like to see platnuml [0] which generates UML diagrams from text files; it's muy default tool for UML at work

[0] http://plantuml.com/

[dv_dt → mzs]

If you're not stuck on the text-art aspect of this, and are more willing to do graph connection list type spec, you can do this easily in graphviz.