Comment by HarHarVeryFunny

1 day ago

Thanks, so in this case the value of "code fomatting" is using a fixed-width font ?

The next question is where did the "ASCII-art" graph and table come from? Are there sites to generate these?

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Krysoph  1 day ago

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  • HarHarVeryFunny  1 day ago

    Neat!

    If I use your tool and "Copy HN-ready" and paste here then it works, but oddly if I then edit the post the formatting is lost.

    Also, if I just manually post, starting with a blank line, followed by a couple of lines starting with two spaces (e.g. " aaa", " bbb"), then I'm not getting the <pre> code formatting. Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

    • Krysoph  1 day ago

      .

        I think HN strips starting blank lines,
  but it may work when done after a line with some char like: .

      edit test:

               0 ┤ ╭───╮ Homer made burger
           │ │ ● │ ╭───╮ McBurger
         2 ┤ ╰───╯ │ ○ │  ╭─────╮
           │       ╰───╯  │  *  │ Food truck burger
         4 ┤              ╰─────╯
           │
           │                         ╭─────╮
         6 ┤                         │  ■  │ this was edited btw
           │                         ╰─────╯                   ╭─────╮
         8 ┤                                   Hairport burger │  ▲  │
           │                                                   ╰─────╯
        10 └┬────────────┬───────────┬────────────┬───────────┬────────────┬
           $0           $8          $16          $24         $32          $40

      Works fine for me, even after multiple edits the formatting stays the same ¯\(ツ)/¯

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