yup,
very nice and usefull in (non-html) emails, console, man pages and so on (where you only can display text)... but for pdf, webbrowser i would prefer svg. as its also just text (therefor searchable, but dunno if in pdf) and looks "better" (propably exactly like in pd) than ascii...
i would love to do a pd-patch to svg converter, but theres no info about the inlets/outlets in pd-patches. so we would need to have pd on the webserver to convert pd-patches to svg...
.andre
ps. my most knowledge is in php, but i could start learn python to do an converter for puredata.info/plone...
pps. would be awesome if users on puredata.info could choose the display of included patches in a page between pd-text, ascii-art, svg and png :)
ppps. but until viewers support "svg fonts" (i think opera9 is the only atm) http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/fonts.html#FontElement we would have the same problem with fonts as we have with pd atm...
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 17:06 -0500, marius schebella wrote:
very nice, indeed. do you see any possibility to run this the other way round, so that we can have patch output in graphical ascir format? useful for examples in pdfs, web-browsers. would make patches searchable and other stuff. marius.
alex wrote:
Hi pders
Here's a way of PD patching in plaintext:
*------------------------* | .--------. \.-x--------. | osc~ 5 | * | osc~ 500 |
-x------' |-x--------' | | | .-x------. | | | *~ 300 | | | `-x------' | *---* | | | *------------* .-x------. | *~ 0.2 | `-x------' | * |
| * | | .-x-x--. | dac~ | `------' http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma503am/alex/textual-patching/You can define pd objects and connect them together with ASCII syntax. Layout is preserved as well. Much like in ghostbusters, you can't cross the lines, and there isn't syntax for different box types (messages and numbers). Fixing this would be short work, but I ran out of train journey :)
There is a particular syntax for drawing the lines. You use - for going left and right, | for going up and down and \ and / for going diagonally. To change direction or fork a wire you have to place a * . Mark inlets and outlets with x .
alex
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