DITAA(1)

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💖 DITAA(1) — the ditaa manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about ditaa — it's a lil' command-line cutie from the General Commands Manual section, and it's about to change your whole diagram game. no cap. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

ditaa — convert ASCII diagrams into proper bitmap graphics 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ditaa [options] input [output]

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So this manual page documents the ditaa command, briefly — because honestly the vibe is self-explanatory once you see it. 👑

DiTAA is a small command-line utility that can convert diagrams drawn using ASCII art — and by "ASCII art" I mean those "drawings" that contain characters that resemble lines, like |, / and - — into proper bitmap graphics. literally turning your keyboard scribbles into a glow-up. ✨

And DiTAA also uses special markup syntax to increase the possibilities of shapes and symbols that can be rendered. so you're not limited to just lines, bestie. the palette? expanded. 🎨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --help — show summary of options. the classic "help meee" button. 🫶
  • -v, --verbose — makes ditaa more verbose. it's giving "tell me everything, I'm nosy". 👀
  • -A, --no-antialias — turns anti-aliasing off. bye-bye smooth edges. 🧚
  • -d, --debug — renders the debug grid over the resulting image. lowkey iconic for figuring out what's going on. 🔍
  • -E, --no-separation — prevents the separation of common edges of shapes. no more gaps, we're all holding hands now. 🫂
  • -e ENCODING, --encoding ENCODING — the encoding of the input file. tell it what language your file is speaking. 💬
  • -h, --html — in this case the input is an HTML file. the contents of the <pre class="textdiagram"> tags are rendered as diagrams and saved in the images directory, and a new HTML file is produced with the appropriate <img> tags. it's HTML-ception, and it ate. 🔥
  • -o, --overwrite — if the filename of the destination image already exists, an alternative name is chosen. if the overwrite option is selected, the image file is instead overwritten. so like, pick your fighter: new name or no mercy. 💅
  • -r, --round-corners — causes all corners to be rendered as round corners. soft girl era for your shapes. 🌸
  • -s SCALE, --scale SCALE — a natural number that determines the size of the rendered image. the units are fractions of the default size (2.5 renders 1.5 times bigger than the default). math girlies rise. 📐
  • -S, --no-shadows — turns off the drop-shadow effect. flat and unbothered. 🌈
  • -t TABS, --tabs TABS — tabs are normally interpreted as 8 spaces, but it is possible to change that using this option. it is not advisable to use tabs in your diagrams. > bestie pls, just don't use tabs. the manpage said it, not me. 😭

👑 AUTHOR 👑

DiTAA was written by Efstathios (Stathis) Sideris. king behavior, honestly. 👑

This manual page was written by David Paleino <dapal@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). slay, Debian. 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this was the ditaa(1) manual from the General Commands Manual, dated April 15, 2010 — yes, a 2010 baddie, and it still serves. go convert something gorgeous. periodt. ✨🎀🦋

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