ditaa1

Usage

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the ditaa command.

DiTAA is a small command-line utility that can convert diagrams drawn using ASCII art ("drawings" that contain characters that resemble lines, like | / and -), into proper bitmap graphics.

DiTAA also uses special markup syntax to increase the possibilities of shapes and symbols that can be rendered.

Options

--help

Show summary of options.

-v, --verbose

Makes ditaa more verbose.

-A, --no-antialias

Turns anti-aliasing off.

-d, --debug

Renders the debug grid over the resulting image.

-E, --no-separation

Prevents the separation of common edges of shapes.

-e ENCODING, --encoding ENCODING

The encoding of the input file.

-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.

-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.

-r, --round-corners

Causes all corners to be rendered as round corners.

-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).

-S, --no-shadows

Turns off the drop-shadow effect.

-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.