Patate

2023-09-12

Patate is an ASCII art editor for terminals running in linux, inspired by REXPaint and Monodraw.

- Features are incomplete

- User guide is incomplete

- It is not tested

The terminal in the screenshots is XFCE Terminal with Monospace Regular font in Slackware Current (the only system I have with all the unicode glyphs in the interface (unicode 15), Gnome-terminal in Ubuntu 23.04 doesn't have all the glyphs).

Screenshots:

There is also textDraw for creating diagrams (basic, no tui):

Drawing made with patate:

            ┌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┐
  ┌─────────┼───────┐ ╎
 ┌┼╌╌╌╌╌╌┐  ╎       │ ╎
 ╎│    ┌┄┼┄┄┼┄┄┄┄┐  │ ╎
 ╎│    ┆ ╎  ╎    ┆  │ ╎
 ╎│    ┆ ╎  ╎    ┆  │ ╎
 ╎│    ┆ ╎  ├────┼──┼─┼─┐
 ╎│  ┏━┿━┿━━┿━━━━┿━━┿━┿━┿━┓
 └┼╌╌╂╌┼╌┘  ├╌╌╌╌┼╌╌┼╌┘ │ ┃
  └──╂─┼────┼────┼──┘   │ ┃
 ╭───╂─┴─┬┄┄┼┄┄┄┄┘      │ ┃
 │┎──╂───┼──┼─────┒     │ ┃
 │┃  ┃   │  │     ┃     │ ┃
 │┃  ┃╭──┼──┼───╮ ┃     │ ┃
 │┃  ┃│  │  └───┼─╂─────┘ ┃
 ╰╂──╂┼──╯      │ ┃       ┃
  ┃  ┗┿━━━━━━━━━┿━╋━━━━━━━┛
  ┃   ╰─────────╯ ┃
  ┖───────────────┚

In this document from Unicode Consortium, there are example images that can be recreated with the legacy computer characters: