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A Declarative DSL for Customizing ASCII Art

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When writing source comments or blog posts, developers often choose to express diagrams as ASCII art, accepting the drawback that it is ugly. mon-artist is a software library, inspired by a2s, that converts blocks of text-based art into SVG elements far more pleasing to the eye than the original text. mon-artist allows custom SVG generation by revising the rules used for detecting and rendering graphical “paths” within the text, and uses a declarative DSL to encode its rendering rules.

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  1. Mozilla Research, San Francisco, USA

    Felix S. Klock II

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  1. University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    Yuliya Lierler

  2. Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden

    Walid Taha

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Klock, F.S. (2017). A Declarative DSL for Customizing ASCII Art. In: Lierler, Y., Taha, W. (eds) Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages. PADL 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10137. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51676-9_13

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