Graphviz and ascii output

Question

Is it possible to draw ASCII diagram using Graphviz?

Something like that:

digraph
{
  this -> is
  this -> a
  a -> test
}

Giv

Answer 1

By now, in ubuntu, you can install and use graph-easy directly:

> sudo apt install libgraph-easy-perl
[...]

> graph-easy dotfile.dot 
+----+     +------+
| is | <-- | this |
+----+     +------+
             |
             |
             v
           +------+
           |  a   |
           +------+
             |
             |
             v
           +------+
           | test |
           +------+