using-an-ascii-diagram-as-data
Looking for a name for this idea
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/k9dx/compiling_complex_ascii_tables_to_html_tables
https://github.com/mdr/ascii-graphs
talks about "parsing existing diagrams"... has a "DiagramToGraphConvertor"
"textual representation of data"
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_data_serialization_formats#Syntax_comparison_of_human-readable_formats
"Syntax comparison of human-readable formats"
Thinking about Yaml (from Wikipedia)
"make it especially suited for tasks where humans are likely to view or edit data structures, such as configuration files, dumping during debugging, and document headers"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19857349
link not tracked are atomic (also can be embeddable like transcludable sections)... but could also be for data gathering. Like how you join small atomic tables of data, you join these atomic notes... especially if they have data.