Feature: plain ASCII support about monosketch

[tuanchauict]

Sorry for the late response.
Actually, this request is one of my plans because sometimes, I also prefer simple characters like -+| rather than characters like ┐┌.

Luckily, this is not hard, we can add a new stroke style (see PredefinedStraightStrokeStyle).

We can also add a mask to replace the stroke characters with the equivalent ones when doing export.

However, I'm busy with porting the Kotlin code into TypeScript recently (#584) (it sounds crazy but for the future of MonoSketch and also for me to learn new stuffs - MonoSketch is purely a place for practicing engineering).

Sorry for making you keep waiting longer but this request will definitely be implemented.

[SPYFF]

Thank you for the detailed response.

No need to hurry, I will be happy when its done. I just recently found this tool and I'm very happy with it as is for illustrating personal notes. Sometimes my colleagues and I need to illustrate internet drafts (every 3-6 months or so) and the ASCII mode would help with that.

A question about the typescript code. Will the whole project be converted to Typescript or just a part of it? From the output it looks like you are rewriting it from scratch. Anyway, keep up the good work and have fun learning!

[tuanchauict]

I didn't want to, but, unfortunately, I'm porting from scratch.
The number of codes of MonoSketch is not big (~19k), so, this is not a heavy task so far. Only some parts are more complicated than others, and most of the code is quite straightforward.

[SPYFF]

I see. Hopefully on the long run it might attract more contributors, I assume TS is more popular than Kotlin these days.

[klausdk]

Not sure its related, but I would love to have the arrows like asciiflow.
This ► instead of ▶

It makes the vertical lines misaligned

You can notice it in the example on the README.md page and below.

Example :
Current :

                 ─       │           ├───────○──┤/  547 │                    
                GND      │           │       │  │ ▶     │                    
                         │           │      ╭┴╮   │     │                    

With suggested arrow :

                 ─       │           ├───────○──┤/  547 │                    
                GND      │           │       │  │ ►     │                    
                         │           │      ╭┴╮   │     │                    
                         

I like the idea that we can keep it as vanilla as possible without having to use fonts like jetbrains mono (even if its a cool font), but can use fonts like monospace or courier.

[tuanchauict]

For ► or ▶, it really depends on the font and there are no correct answers.
For example, ► is ► in monospace font while ▶ is ▶

On my PC, the font used on GitHub for monospace renders correct size for both text:

But this is what it is displayed on my email

Btw, let me add a new kinds of arrow later

[klausdk]

Sounds great!

Up and down arrows are fine :

From notepad++

[klausdk]

Yes.

Seems to work. Thanks ☺