What tools exist for generating "ASCII Tables", if any? [closed]

Solution 1:

I found this Format Text as a Table online utility which is extremely useful.

Apparently it was created specifically for SE by senseful!

Of course, there are (both online and offline) ASCII art editors as well that might help.

Solution 2:

AsciiFlow is just one website I know of that lets you draw in ASCII.

Solution 3:

Emacs' Org-mode tables are sensational.

* Holiday update 2013

| Days off | Reason               | Dates off  | Days remaining |
|----------+----------------------+------------+----------------|
|        1 | Door installed       | 10 January |             27 |
|      0.5 | Garage tidy          | 28 January |           26.5 |
|        1 | Bank, garage, Hagino | 8 February |           25.5 |
#+TBLFM: @2$4=28-(@2$1)::@3$4=@2$4-(@3$1)::@4$4=@3$4-(@4$1)

Also, if it's ASCII drawing you want, try Emacs' artist-mode. You can draw tables with it and it has 1001 other uses (flow diagrams, etc.)

|                    ---------------
|                ----/              \----
|              /                         \
|             (   Hey! It's artist-mode!  )
|              \                         /
|              -                    /----
|      O      /  -------------------
|     -+-   -------/
|    / | \
|      |          It's   |  so   |   easy
|      /\         -------+-------+--------------
|     /  \        to     |  use  |   everyone!

Solution 4:

A couple of solutions for you:

Email Effects

Email Effects is a program for Macintosh or Windows which allows pictures and drawings to be used in email, source code or any other plain text medium. It is the world's premier ASCII art creator and is being used for greetings cards, signatures, program flow diagrams, maps, chemical structure diagrams, logos, and much, much more.

See also: Open Directory – ASCII Art Software