AsciiWriter - Revision history

Manetta: /* Some thoughts */

2023-04-15T16:47:58Z

Some thoughts

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	AsciiWriter is a Python library that can be used to generate plain text graphics and lay outs. The tool is embedded in a network of practices, scripts and events around [https://osp.kitchen OSP] and [https://varia.zone Varia], in which plain text has been used to generate visuals and publications, such as the [https://www.algolit.net/index.php/Data_Workers_Publication Data Workers, an exhibition catalog for Algolit (March 2019)], a [https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/workshop.odc2019 plaintext poster workshop at the Open Design Course at KASK (September 2019)], [https://varia.zone/en/plaintext-partyline.html Plaintext Partyline at Varia (April 2021)] and a [https://darc.au.dk/publications/peer-reviewed-newspaper#c40171 Peer-reviewed Newspaper made with asciiWriter (summer 2021)].		AsciiWriter is a Python library that can be used to generate plain text graphics and lay outs. The tool is embedded in a network of practices, scripts and events around [https://osp.kitchen OSP] and [https://varia.zone Varia], in which plain text has been used to generate visuals and publications, such as the [https://www.algolit.net/index.php/Data_Workers_Publication Data Workers, an exhibition catalog for Algolit (March 2019)], a [https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/workshop.odc2019 plaintext poster workshop at the Open Design Course at KASK (September 2019)], [https://varia.zone/en/plaintext-partyline.html Plaintext Partyline at Varia (April 2021)] and a [https://darc.au.dk/publications/peer-reviewed-newspaper#c40171 Peer-reviewed Newspaper made with asciiWriter (summer 2021)].

	My interest in plain text as a file format, environment and attitude, points to a engaged mode of computational meaning making. Plain text, with the X-Y axes as rigid constraints, embodies a monotone and spacial strictness of a monospace environment. Plain text can be an intimate space, with its manual possibilities to intervene in the drawing or lay out that you're making, ~~but also the~~ open ended range of possibilities for generating plain text material. Plain text can also be a fragile space, with its transformative, re-usable and ready to be rendered materiality, which comes to the surface when we think of plain text language corpora used for machine learning.		My interest in plain text as a file format, environment and attitude, points to an engaged mode of computational meaning making. Plain text, with the X-Y axes as rigid constraints, embodies a monotone and spacial strictness of a monospace environment. Plain text can be an intimate space, with its manual possibilities to intervene in the drawing or lay out that you're making, or through its open ended range of possibilities for generating plain text material. Plain text can also be a fragile space, with its transformative, re-usable and its always-ready-to-be-re-rendered materiality, which comes to the surface when we think of plain text language corpora used for machine learning.

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	During the radio conversation [https://vvvvvvaria.org/archive/2022-10-publishing-partyline/publishing-partyline-radio-series-1-with-OSP-07-Sept-2022.ogg ''Standards and work arounds, with Open Source Publishing (OSP)''], initiated by Simon Browne and myself in the context of the [https://varia.zone/en/publishing-partyline.html Publishing Partyline], the notion of ''tools'' was central to understanding what impact tool-making has on a design or publishing practice. What is the difference between a tool and a set of scripts? Is the gesture of turning something into a tool a gesture of claiming ownership and authorship? When we discussed the html2print project of OSP during the radio conversation, Alex, Gijs, Doriane and Amélie explained how the project first emerged as an experiment, but then grew into an approach and ecosystem. Something like a boilerplate that invites you to adapt it, a collection of hacks, or a tool chain. They preferred to look at it as a collection of practices, rather than a solid/fixed tool.		During the radio conversation [https://vvvvvvaria.org/archive/2022-10-publishing-partyline/publishing-partyline-radio-series-1-with-OSP-07-Sept-2022.ogg ''Standards and work arounds, with Open Source Publishing (OSP)''], initiated by Simon Browne and myself in the context of the [https://varia.zone/en/publishing-partyline.html Publishing Partyline], the notion of ''tools'' was central to understanding what impact tool-making has on a design or publishing practice. What is the difference between a tool and a set of scripts? Is the gesture of turning something into a tool a gesture of claiming ownership and authorship? When we discussed the html2print project of OSP during the radio conversation, Alex, Gijs, Doriane and Amélie explained how the project first emerged as an experiment, but then grew into an approach and ecosystem. Something like a boilerplate that invites you to adapt it, a collection of hacks, or a tool chain. They preferred to look at it as a collection of practices, rather than a solid/fixed tool.

			This way to think of tools can be applied to the asciiWriter as well. As much that this library is a short cut to a range of scripts, it also wraps as set of scripts into a tool, placing the spotlight on the scripts themselves instead of the thoughts, enthusiasms and practices that surround it.

			It's actually not that much of a contradiction as i might make it sound now. And that's not my point. I'm interested in the placement of emphasis and what possibilities that placement produces.

	=An example script=		=An example script=

Manetta at 15:55, 7 April 2023

2023-04-07T15:55:23Z

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	'''Links'''		'''Links'''

	* [[asciiWriter/sinus.py]]
	* https://pypi.org/project/asciiWriter/		* https://pypi.org/project/asciiWriter/
	* https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/mb/asciiWriter		* https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/mb/asciiWriter

Manetta at 15:55, 7 April 2023

2023-04-07T15:55:03Z

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	During the radio conversation [https://vvvvvvaria.org/archive/2022-10-publishing-partyline/publishing-partyline-radio-series-1-with-OSP-07-Sept-2022.ogg ''Standards and work arounds, with Open Source Publishing (OSP)''], initiated by Simon Browne and myself in the context of the [https://varia.zone/en/publishing-partyline.html Publishing Partyline], the notion of ''tools'' was central to understanding what impact tool-making has on a design or publishing practice. What is the difference between a tool and a set of scripts? Is the gesture of turning something into a tool a gesture of claiming ownership and authorship? When we discussed the html2print project of OSP during the radio conversation, Alex, Gijs, Doriane and Amélie explained how the project first emerged as an experiment, but then grew into an approach and ecosystem. Something like a boilerplate that invites you to adapt it, a collection of hacks, or a tool chain. They preferred to look at it as a collection of practices, rather than a solid/fixed tool.		During the radio conversation [https://vvvvvvaria.org/archive/2022-10-publishing-partyline/publishing-partyline-radio-series-1-with-OSP-07-Sept-2022.ogg ''Standards and work arounds, with Open Source Publishing (OSP)''], initiated by Simon Browne and myself in the context of the [https://varia.zone/en/publishing-partyline.html Publishing Partyline], the notion of ''tools'' was central to understanding what impact tool-making has on a design or publishing practice. What is the difference between a tool and a set of scripts? Is the gesture of turning something into a tool a gesture of claiming ownership and authorship? When we discussed the html2print project of OSP during the radio conversation, Alex, Gijs, Doriane and Amélie explained how the project first emerged as an experiment, but then grew into an approach and ecosystem. Something like a boilerplate that invites you to adapt it, a collection of hacks, or a tool chain. They preferred to look at it as a collection of practices, rather than a solid/fixed tool.


	=An example script=		=An example script=

Manetta: /* Some thoughts */

2023-04-07T15:54:55Z

Some thoughts

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	Back to the ~~tool~~! Turning ~~AsciiWriter~~ into an pip-installable Python library was actually also an exploration in itself, both Gijs de Heij and myself had never done that before, and we were curious to give it a try. What does it mean to turn a bunch of scripts that are stored in git repo's here and there into something that is installable Python library? Would other people use and transform it? Do we need to maintain this library?		Back to the asciiWriter! Turning asciiWriter into an pip-installable Python library was actually also an exploration in itself, both Gijs de Heij and myself had never done that before, and we were curious to give it a try. What does it mean to turn a bunch of scripts that are stored in git repo's here and there into something that is installable Python library? Would other people use and transform it? Do we need to maintain this library?

	During the radio conversation [https://vvvvvvaria.org/archive/2022-10-publishing-partyline/publishing-partyline-radio-series-1-with-OSP-07-Sept-2022.ogg ''Standards and work arounds, with Open Source Publishing (OSP)''], initiated by Simon Browne and myself in the context of the [https://varia.zone/en/publishing-partyline.html Publishing Partyline], the notion of ''tools'' was central to understanding what impact tool-making has on a design or publishing practice. What is the difference between a tool and a set of scripts? Is the gesture of turning something into a tool a gesture of claiming ownership and authorship? When we discussed the html2print project of OSP during the radio conversation, Alex, Gijs, Doriane and Amélie explained how the project first emerged as an experiment, but then grew into an approach and ecosystem. Something like a boilerplate that invites you to adapt it, a collection of hacks, or a tool chain. They preferred to look at it as a collection of practices, rather than a solid/fixed tool.		During the radio conversation [https://vvvvvvaria.org/archive/2022-10-publishing-partyline/publishing-partyline-radio-series-1-with-OSP-07-Sept-2022.ogg ''Standards and work arounds, with Open Source Publishing (OSP)''], initiated by Simon Browne and myself in the context of the [https://varia.zone/en/publishing-partyline.html Publishing Partyline], the notion of ''tools'' was central to understanding what impact tool-making has on a design or publishing practice. What is the difference between a tool and a set of scripts? Is the gesture of turning something into a tool a gesture of claiming ownership and authorship? When we discussed the html2print project of OSP during the radio conversation, Alex, Gijs, Doriane and Amélie explained how the project first emerged as an experiment, but then grew into an approach and ecosystem. Something like a boilerplate that invites you to adapt it, a collection of hacks, or a tool chain. They preferred to look at it as a collection of practices, rather than a solid/fixed tool.


	=An example script=		=An example script=

Manetta at 15:52, 7 April 2023

2023-04-07T15:52:39Z

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	During the radio conversation [https://vvvvvvaria.org/archive/2022-10-publishing-partyline/publishing-partyline-radio-series-1-with-OSP-07-Sept-2022.ogg ''Standards and work arounds, with Open Source Publishing (OSP)''], initiated by Simon Browne and myself in the context of the [https://varia.zone/en/publishing-partyline.html Publishing Partyline], the notion of ''tools'' was central to understanding what impact tool-making has on a design or publishing practice. What is the difference between a tool and a set of scripts? Is the gesture of turning something into a tool a gesture of claiming ownership and authorship? When we discussed the html2print project of OSP during the radio conversation, Alex, Gijs, Doriane and Amélie explained how the project first emerged as an experiment, but then grew into an approach and ecosystem. Something like a boilerplate that invites you to adapt it, a collection of hacks, or a tool chain. They preferred to look at it as a collection of practices, rather than a solid/fixed tool.		During the radio conversation [https://vvvvvvaria.org/archive/2022-10-publishing-partyline/publishing-partyline-radio-series-1-with-OSP-07-Sept-2022.ogg ''Standards and work arounds, with Open Source Publishing (OSP)''], initiated by Simon Browne and myself in the context of the [https://varia.zone/en/publishing-partyline.html Publishing Partyline], the notion of ''tools'' was central to understanding what impact tool-making has on a design or publishing practice. What is the difference between a tool and a set of scripts? Is the gesture of turning something into a tool a gesture of claiming ownership and authorship? When we discussed the html2print project of OSP during the radio conversation, Alex, Gijs, Doriane and Amélie explained how the project first emerged as an experiment, but then grew into an approach and ecosystem. Something like a boilerplate that invites you to adapt it, a collection of hacks, or a tool chain. They preferred to look at it as a collection of practices, rather than a solid/fixed tool.


			=An example script=

			{{:asciiWriter/sinus.py}}

Manetta at 15:49, 7 April 2023

2023-04-07T15:49:23Z

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	AsciiWriter is a Python library that can be used to generate plain text graphics and lay outs. The tool is embedded in a network of practices, scripts and events around [https://osp.kitchen OSP] and [https://varia.zone Varia], in which plain text has been used to generate visuals and publications, such as the [https://www.algolit.net/index.php/Data_Workers_Publication Data Workers, an exhibition catalog for Algolit (March 2019)], a [https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/workshop.odc2019 plaintext poster workshop at the Open Design Course at KASK (September 2019)], [https://varia.zone/en/plaintext-partyline.html Plaintext Partyline at Varia (April 2021)] and a [https://darc.au.dk/publications/peer-reviewed-newspaper#c40171 Peer-reviewed Newspaper made with asciiWriter (summer 2021)].		AsciiWriter is a Python library that can be used to generate plain text graphics and lay outs. The tool is embedded in a network of practices, scripts and events around [https://osp.kitchen OSP] and [https://varia.zone Varia], in which plain text has been used to generate visuals and publications, such as the [https://www.algolit.net/index.php/Data_Workers_Publication Data Workers, an exhibition catalog for Algolit (March 2019)], a [https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/workshop.odc2019 plaintext poster workshop at the Open Design Course at KASK (September 2019)], [https://varia.zone/en/plaintext-partyline.html Plaintext Partyline at Varia (April 2021)] and a [https://darc.au.dk/publications/peer-reviewed-newspaper#c40171 Peer-reviewed Newspaper made with asciiWriter (summer 2021)].

	My interest in plain text as a file format, environment and attitude, points to a engaged mode of computational meaning making. Plain text, with the X-Y axes as rigid constraints, embodies a monotone and spacial strictness of a monospace environment. Plain text can be an intimate space, with its manual possibilities to intervene in the drawing or lay out that you're making, but also the open ended range of possibilities for generating plain text material. Plain text is transformative, re-usable and ~~renderable~~.		My interest in plain text as a file format, environment and attitude, points to a engaged mode of computational meaning making. Plain text, with the X-Y axes as rigid constraints, embodies a monotone and spacial strictness of a monospace environment. Plain text can be an intimate space, with its manual possibilities to intervene in the drawing or lay out that you're making, but also the open ended range of possibilities for generating plain text material. Plain text can also be a fragile space, with its transformative, re-usable and ready to be rendered materiality, which comes to the surface when we think of plain text language corpora used for machine learning.

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	chromosomally. When an X-Y matrix is populated with information		chromosomally. When an X-Y matrix is populated with information
	linearly, the possibility of curvature arises, of reading data		linearly, the possibility of curvature arises, of reading data
	on multiple hair-pin turns, down a column, through a row, and inter-lineally in other directions. It is this turning of attention on multiple tangent points		on multiple hair-pin turns, down a column, through a row, and
			inter-lineally in other directions. It is this turning of attention on multiple tangent points
	that allows an anti-linear (?) reading. More than anti-linear,		that allows an anti-linear (?) reading. More than anti-linear,
	I would say it's hyperlinear. The greater the multiplicity		I would say it's hyperlinear. The greater the multiplicity
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	Turning AsciiWriter into an pip-installable Python library was actually also an exploration in itself, both Gijs de Heij and myself had never done that before, and we were curious to give it a try. What does it mean to turn a bunch of scripts that are stored in git repo's here and there into something that is installable Python library? Would other people use and transform it? Do we need to maintain this library?		Back to the tool! Turning AsciiWriter into an pip-installable Python library was actually also an exploration in itself, both Gijs de Heij and myself had never done that before, and we were curious to give it a try. What does it mean to turn a bunch of scripts that are stored in git repo's here and there into something that is installable Python library? Would other people use and transform it? Do we need to maintain this library?

	During the radio conversation [https://vvvvvvaria.org/archive/2022-10-publishing-partyline/publishing-partyline-radio-series-1-with-OSP-07-Sept-2022.ogg ''Standards and work arounds, with Open Source Publishing (OSP)''], initiated by Simon Browne and myself in the context of the [https://varia.zone/en/publishing-partyline.html Publishing Partyline], the notion of ''tools'' was central to understanding what impact tool-making has on a design or publishing practice. What is the difference between a tool and a set of scripts? Is the gesture of turning something into a tool a gesture of claiming ownership and authorship? When we discussed the html2print project of OSP during the radio conversation, Alex, Gijs, Doriane and Amélie explained how the project first emerged as an experiment, but then grew into an approach and ecosystem. Something like a boilerplate that invites you to adapt it, a collection of hacks, or a tool chain. They preferred to look at it as a collection of practices, rather than a solid/fixed tool.		During the radio conversation [https://vvvvvvaria.org/archive/2022-10-publishing-partyline/publishing-partyline-radio-series-1-with-OSP-07-Sept-2022.ogg ''Standards and work arounds, with Open Source Publishing (OSP)''], initiated by Simon Browne and myself in the context of the [https://varia.zone/en/publishing-partyline.html Publishing Partyline], the notion of ''tools'' was central to understanding what impact tool-making has on a design or publishing practice. What is the difference between a tool and a set of scripts? Is the gesture of turning something into a tool a gesture of claiming ownership and authorship? When we discussed the html2print project of OSP during the radio conversation, Alex, Gijs, Doriane and Amélie explained how the project first emerged as an experiment, but then grew into an approach and ecosystem. Something like a boilerplate that invites you to adapt it, a collection of hacks, or a tool chain. They preferred to look at it as a collection of practices, rather than a solid/fixed tool.


	=Use asciiWriter=		=Use asciiWriter=

Manetta: /* Some thoughts */

2023-04-07T15:46:16Z

Some thoughts

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	AsciiWriter is a Python library that can be used to generate plain text graphics and lay outs. The tool is embedded in a network of practices, scripts and events around [https://osp.kitchen OSP] and [https://varia.zone Varia], in which plain text has been used to generate visuals and publications, such as the [https://www.algolit.net/index.php/Data_Workers_Publication Data Workers, an exhibition catalog for Algolit (March 2019)], a [https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/workshop.odc2019 plaintext poster workshop at the Open Design Course at KASK (September 2019)], [https://varia.zone/en/plaintext-partyline.html Plaintext Partyline at Varia (April 2021)] and a [https://darc.au.dk/publications/peer-reviewed-newspaper#c40171 Peer-reviewed Newspaper made with asciiWriter (summer 2021)].		AsciiWriter is a Python library that can be used to generate plain text graphics and lay outs. The tool is embedded in a network of practices, scripts and events around [https://osp.kitchen OSP] and [https://varia.zone Varia], in which plain text has been used to generate visuals and publications, such as the [https://www.algolit.net/index.php/Data_Workers_Publication Data Workers, an exhibition catalog for Algolit (March 2019)], a [https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/workshop.odc2019 plaintext poster workshop at the Open Design Course at KASK (September 2019)], [https://varia.zone/en/plaintext-partyline.html Plaintext Partyline at Varia (April 2021)] and a [https://darc.au.dk/publications/peer-reviewed-newspaper#c40171 Peer-reviewed Newspaper made with asciiWriter (summer 2021)].

	My interest in plain text as a file format, environment and attitude, points to a engaged mode of computational meaning making. Plain text, with the X-Y axes as rigid constraints, embodies a monotone and spacial strictness of a monospace environment. Plain text can be an intimate space, with its manual ~~and direct~~ possibilities to intervene in the drawing or lay out that you're making.		My interest in plain text as a file format, environment and attitude, points to a engaged mode of computational meaning making. Plain text, with the X-Y axes as rigid constraints, embodies a monotone and spacial strictness of a monospace environment. Plain text can be an intimate space, with its manual possibilities to intervene in the drawing or lay out that you're making, but also the open ended range of possibilities for generating plain text material. Plain text is transformative, re-usable and renderable.

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Manetta: /* Some thoughts */

2023-04-07T15:44:20Z

Some thoughts

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	AsciiWriter is a Python library that can be used to generate plain text graphics and lay outs. The tool is embedded in a network of practices, scripts and events around [https://osp.kitchen OSP] and [https://varia.zone Varia], in which plain text has been used to generate visuals and publications, such as the [https://www.algolit.net/index.php/Data_Workers_Publication Data Workers, an exhibition catalog for Algolit (March 2019)], a [https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/workshop.odc2019 plaintext poster workshop at the Open Design Course at KASK (September 2019)], [https://varia.zone/en/plaintext-partyline.html Plaintext Partyline at Varia (April 2021)] and a [https://darc.au.dk/publications/peer-reviewed-newspaper#c40171 Peer-reviewed Newspaper made with asciiWriter (summer 2021)].		AsciiWriter is a Python library that can be used to generate plain text graphics and lay outs. The tool is embedded in a network of practices, scripts and events around [https://osp.kitchen OSP] and [https://varia.zone Varia], in which plain text has been used to generate visuals and publications, such as the [https://www.algolit.net/index.php/Data_Workers_Publication Data Workers, an exhibition catalog for Algolit (March 2019)], a [https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/workshop.odc2019 plaintext poster workshop at the Open Design Course at KASK (September 2019)], [https://varia.zone/en/plaintext-partyline.html Plaintext Partyline at Varia (April 2021)] and a [https://darc.au.dk/publications/peer-reviewed-newspaper#c40171 Peer-reviewed Newspaper made with asciiWriter (summer 2021)].

	My interest in plain text as a file format and ~~environment~~ points to a engaged mode of computational meaning making. Plain text, with the X-Y axes as rigid constraints, embodies a monotone and spacial strictness of a monospace environment. Plain text can be an intimate space, with its manual and direct possibilities to intervene in the drawing or lay out that you're making.		My interest in plain text as a file format, environment and attitude, points to a engaged mode of computational meaning making. Plain text, with the X-Y axes as rigid constraints, embodies a monotone and spacial strictness of a monospace environment. Plain text can be an intimate space, with its manual and direct possibilities to intervene in the drawing or lay out that you're making.

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	During the radio conversation [https://vvvvvvaria.org/archive/2022-10-publishing-partyline/publishing-partyline-radio-series-1-with-OSP-07-Sept-2022.ogg ''Standards and work arounds, with Open Source Publishing (OSP)''], initiated by Simon Browne and myself in the context of the [https://varia.zone/en/publishing-partyline.html Publishing Partyline], the notion of ''tools'' was central to understanding what impact tool-making has on a design or publishing practice. What is the difference between a tool and a set of scripts? Is the gesture of turning something into a tool a gesture of claiming ownership and authorship? When we discussed the html2print project of OSP during the radio conversation, Alex, Gijs, Doriane and Amélie explained how the project first emerged as an experiment, but then grew into an approach and ecosystem. Something like a boilerplate that invites you to adapt it, a collection of hacks, or a tool chain. They preferred to look at it as a collection of practices, rather than a solid/fixed tool.		During the radio conversation [https://vvvvvvaria.org/archive/2022-10-publishing-partyline/publishing-partyline-radio-series-1-with-OSP-07-Sept-2022.ogg ''Standards and work arounds, with Open Source Publishing (OSP)''], initiated by Simon Browne and myself in the context of the [https://varia.zone/en/publishing-partyline.html Publishing Partyline], the notion of ''tools'' was central to understanding what impact tool-making has on a design or publishing practice. What is the difference between a tool and a set of scripts? Is the gesture of turning something into a tool a gesture of claiming ownership and authorship? When we discussed the html2print project of OSP during the radio conversation, Alex, Gijs, Doriane and Amélie explained how the project first emerged as an experiment, but then grew into an approach and ecosystem. Something like a boilerplate that invites you to adapt it, a collection of hacks, or a tool chain. They preferred to look at it as a collection of practices, rather than a solid/fixed tool.


	=Use asciiWriter=		=Use asciiWriter=

Manetta at 15:43, 7 April 2023

2023-04-07T15:43:51Z

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	AsciiWriter is a Python library that can be used to generate plain text graphics and lay outs. The tool is embedded in a network of practices, scripts and events around [https://osp.kitchen OSP] and [https://varia.zone Varia], in which plain text has been used to generate visuals and publications, such as the [https://www.algolit.net/index.php/Data_Workers_Publication Data Workers, an exhibition catalog for Algolit (March 2019)], a [https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/workshop.odc2019 plaintext poster workshop at the Open Design Course at KASK (September 2019)], [https://varia.zone/en/plaintext-partyline.html Plaintext Partyline at Varia (April 2021)] and a [https://darc.au.dk/publications/peer-reviewed-newspaper#c40171 Peer-reviewed Newspaper made with asciiWriter (summer 2021)].		AsciiWriter is a Python library that can be used to generate plain text graphics and lay outs. The tool is embedded in a network of practices, scripts and events around [https://osp.kitchen OSP] and [https://varia.zone Varia], in which plain text has been used to generate visuals and publications, such as the [https://www.algolit.net/index.php/Data_Workers_Publication Data Workers, an exhibition catalog for Algolit (March 2019)], a [https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/workshop.odc2019 plaintext poster workshop at the Open Design Course at KASK (September 2019)], [https://varia.zone/en/plaintext-partyline.html Plaintext Partyline at Varia (April 2021)] and a [https://darc.au.dk/publications/peer-reviewed-newspaper#c40171 Peer-reviewed Newspaper made with asciiWriter (summer 2021)].

			My interest in plain text as a file format and environment points to a engaged mode of computational meaning making. Plain text, with the X-Y axes as rigid constraints, embodies a monotone and spacial strictness of a monospace environment. Plain text can be an intimate space, with its manual and direct possibilities to intervene in the drawing or lay out that you're making.

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Manetta at 15:34, 7 April 2023

2023-04-07T15:34:43Z

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	AsciiWriter is a Python library that can be used to generate plain text graphics and lay outs. The tool is embedded in a network of practices, scripts and events around [https://osp.kitchen OSP] and [https://varia.zone Varia], in which plain text has been used to generate visuals and publications, such as the [https://www.algolit.net/index.php/Data_Workers_Publication Data Workers, an exhibition catalog for Algolit (March 2019)], a [https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/workshop.odc2019 plaintext poster workshop at the Open Design Course at KASK (September 2019)], [https://varia.zone/en/plaintext-partyline.html Plaintext Partyline at Varia (April 2021)] and a [https://darc.au.dk/publications/peer-reviewed-newspaper#c40171 Peer-reviewed Newspaper made with asciiWriter (summer 2021)].		AsciiWriter is a Python library that can be used to generate plain text graphics and lay outs. The tool is embedded in a network of practices, scripts and events around [https://osp.kitchen OSP] and [https://varia.zone Varia], in which plain text has been used to generate visuals and publications, such as the [https://www.algolit.net/index.php/Data_Workers_Publication Data Workers, an exhibition catalog for Algolit (March 2019)], a [https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/workshop.odc2019 plaintext poster workshop at the Open Design Course at KASK (September 2019)], [https://varia.zone/en/plaintext-partyline.html Plaintext Partyline at Varia (April 2021)] and a [https://darc.au.dk/publications/peer-reviewed-newspaper#c40171 Peer-reviewed Newspaper made with asciiWriter (summer 2021)].

	Turning AsciiWriter into an pip-installable Python library was actually also an exploration in itself, both Gijs de Heij and myself had never done that before, and we were curious to give it a try. What does it mean to turn a bunch of scripts that are stored in git repo's here and there into something that is installable Python library? Would other people use and transform it? Do we need to maintain this library?

	During the radio conversation [https://vvvvvvaria.org/archive/2022-10-publishing-partyline/publishing-partyline-radio-series-1-with-OSP-07-Sept-2022.ogg ''Standards and work arounds, with Open Source Publishing (OSP)''], initiated by Simon Browne and myself in the context of the [https://varia.zone/en/publishing-partyline.html Publishing Partyline], the notion of ''tools'' was central to understanding what impact tool-making has on a design or publishing practice. What is the difference between a tool and a set of scripts? Is the gesture of turning something into a tool a gesture of claiming ownership and authorship? When we discussed the html2print project of OSP during the radio conversation, Alex, Gijs, Doriane and Amélie explained how the project first emerged as an experiment, but then grew into an approach and ecosystem. Something like a boilerplate that invites you to adapt it, a collection of hacks, or a tool chain. They preferred to look at it as a collection of practices, rather than a solid/fixed tool.

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			Turning AsciiWriter into an pip-installable Python library was actually also an exploration in itself, both Gijs de Heij and myself had never done that before, and we were curious to give it a try. What does it mean to turn a bunch of scripts that are stored in git repo's here and there into something that is installable Python library? Would other people use and transform it? Do we need to maintain this library?

			During the radio conversation [https://vvvvvvaria.org/archive/2022-10-publishing-partyline/publishing-partyline-radio-series-1-with-OSP-07-Sept-2022.ogg ''Standards and work arounds, with Open Source Publishing (OSP)''], initiated by Simon Browne and myself in the context of the [https://varia.zone/en/publishing-partyline.html Publishing Partyline], the notion of ''tools'' was central to understanding what impact tool-making has on a design or publishing practice. What is the difference between a tool and a set of scripts? Is the gesture of turning something into a tool a gesture of claiming ownership and authorship? When we discussed the html2print project of OSP during the radio conversation, Alex, Gijs, Doriane and Amélie explained how the project first emerged as an experiment, but then grew into an approach and ecosystem. Something like a boilerplate that invites you to adapt it, a collection of hacks, or a tool chain. They preferred to look at it as a collection of practices, rather than a solid/fixed tool.