Last week at work I used #pikchr for the first time. It's a diagram generator that uses a text file as a source. This means that you can now easily keep track of your diagrams in a VCS (git, bah). It took me a couple of days to get used to the way it wors.
Unluckily right now the site seems down to me, but here's the link:
They have an online version, which is the one I used, but there's also a CLI you can install locally... at least on #Linux.
#Pikchr (pikchr.org) is a great little piece of software from the SQLite folks. It parses a little language for describing diagrams with boxes and lines and things, and puts out SVG.
#OrgMode (orgmode.org) has, among many other things, a way you can make code notebooks, #OrgBabel. Like #Jupyter, but less webby, and inside #Emacs, and supporting many languages - even multiple in the same document - thence its name.
Thanks to the ob-pikchr package by @SReyCoyrehourcq, Pikchr is one of the languages you can just write in the middle of your document this way.
Pikchr supports #darkmode, and I've just made a pull request that gets ob-pikchr in on the dark-mode game.
https://github.com/reyman/ob-pikchr/pull/1
Many thanks to Sebastien for the help ob-pikchr has provided in diagramming my thoughts! You go use it too!
@ross I've noticed this handy feature while generating SVGs using Pikchr, Emacs, and org-mode. Some fun examples on my blog:
https://remcycles.net/blog/crc_diagrams.html
https://remcycles.net/blog/pikchr_plots.html
https://remcycles.net/blog/goertzel.html
#emacs #pikchr #orgmode #svg
Hoy en mi blog un pequeño resumen sobre las herramientas que vengo usando últimamente para mis cosas:
https://notxor.nueva-actitud.org/2024/11/10/resumen-de-mis-ultimas-herramientas.html
Hoy en mi blog hablo sobre la herramienta para generación de gráficos a partir de texto #Pikchr
https://notxor.nueva-actitud.org/2024/09/30/graficos-con-pikchr.html
I've just written my first non toy #pikchr diagram and I can see it potentially replacing #ditaa and #artistmode for some of my diagram needs. https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/homepage.md
* #pikchr https://pikchr.org/ is a PIC-based markup language for creating diagrams à la #dot. I think it's more powerful (kind of à la TeX/LaTeX, in the sens of not so abstract but lets you shoot yourself in the foot if needed), and would probably allow me to make the graphs I need, allowing me grouping elements in blocks, and being able to draw lines/arrows between any mix of group border and element. A CLI compiler just entered #debian unstable.
🌘 Pikchr：文件說明
➤ Pikchr語言的應用範圍和用法
✤ https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/homepage.md
Pikchr是一種類似PIC的標記語言，用於技術文件中的圖表。它設計用於嵌入Markdown或其他文件標記語言的代碼塊中。Pikchr圖表可在文件、Wiki頁面、票據和錯誤報告、論壇帖子、檢查評論等任何Markdown或相似標記語言使用的地方出現。它易於生成，語言簡單，有大量在線文檔和示例。任何熟悉使用Markdown的人都應該能夠輕鬆掌握Pikchr。Pikchr在互聯網應用中是安全的，並且能輕鬆集成到其他系統中。Pikchr源代碼以0-clause BSD許可證釋出。
+ 這篇摘要很清晰地概括了Pikchr的主要功能和特點。
+ 瞭解了Pikchr的用途和特點，對於技術文件的應用很有幫助。
#Pikchr #文件說明 #技術文件
@22 The #SQLite syntax diagrams are produced with the #pikchr tool, by the same author as #SQLite and #fossil D Richard Hipp.
"Pikchr (pronounced "picture") is a PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation. Pikchr is designed to be embedded in fenced code blocks of Markdown or similar mechanisms of other documentation markup languages."
https://www.fossil-scm.org/
https://pikchr.org/
@alexlehm I was reminded of #pikchr when @jpmens mentioned #PIC https://mastodon.social/@jpmens/111065438408351693 because pikchr's syntax is more or less the same https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/doc/differences.md
Inspired by the #TikZ examples in the Microsoft report on GPT-4 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf, I tried to have #ChatGPT draw a stick figure in #pikchr. It doesn’t really work, except as a motivation to read the manual… But it’s impressive how it takes your corrections into account. #GPT4 (tried in https://lex.page) seems to produce more elaborate code (with comments!), but it mostly doesn’t work either—and without being able to chat with it, it’s not useful for this purpose.
