Transforming ascii text into embeddable images?

[stefano franchi]

I just started using Tiddlywiki and I am trying to understand how I can customize for  my purposes.

Here is the first issue I am facing:

1. Suppose I have a  tool that is capable of transforming a few lines of Ascii into an image (pdf/eps/png, etc). 

2. I want to be able to open a tiddler, insert those lines of text and have  the image produced by the tool embedded into the tiddler

First newbie question: Am I right that I would need to write a new widget plugin to achieve what I have in mind?

[PMario]

On Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at 12:58:17 AM UTC+1, stefano franchi wrote:

First newbie question: Am I right that I would need to write a new widget plugin to achieve what I have in mind?

yes

[TonyM]

Stephano

Mario's answer is to the point and correct. But could I suggest before you do such a thing you look at what other visualisation tools are available in Tiddlywiki, from the railroad plugins and others that require simple text and translate it into other forms, usually graphics and visualisations. You could then print them to a PDF printer.

If you are comfortable sharing the details of "your a few lines of Ascii into an image" tool perhaps there is an equivalent already available.

Regards

Tony

[Jeremy Ruston]

The Railroad plugin in the official plugin library is an example of reusing such a library -- in this case, the underlying library is https://github.com/tabatkins/railroad-diagrams

https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/tree/master/plugins/tiddlywiki/railroad

Best wishes

Jeremy

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[stefano franchi]

Thanks to all for the suggestions. The Railroad plugin+library looks very similar to what I'm trying to do. I will start by looking at that code.

Cheers,

Stefano

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[TonyM]

Check out others here;

https://dynalist.io/d/zUP-nIWu2FFoXH-oM7L7d9DM#q=visual

I like Mermaid diagrams and flow charts

Regards

Tony