ASCII Annos

I'm a visual kind of person, when I talk and try to explain something, my hands describe shapes in the air in front of me.

It's easier for me to think about something abstract if I can imagine it in terms of a shape or as a series of connecting points in some imaginary space.

The Halfbakery is a beautiful thing. It's clean here, and I can surf it without arousing too much bossular suspicion. It is however (like much of the quality stuff available online) largely text-based.

Don't get me wrong; I love a bit of text. But I occasionally feel the need to express myself more thoroughly. If I could draw, I would, but I still doubt my style would fit in with the cleanliness here - and it’s a lot of palaver to submit drawings just when I want to explain something in an anno...

So - what about allowing a fixed-width tag so that I can create my own ASCII monospaced illustrations in my ideas or annotations!

It should* fit in with the look of the place already, and provide a piece of functionality that people can explore and become creative with.

I think most browsers have a suitably standard monospace font that most ASCII creations would be able to convey the original intentions of the poster.

Yes we can attempt these things at the moment, but it's not monospace, and we have no idea about how these things might look to our flour-dusted brethren(and sistren of course).

N.B. I would have made the explanation of this idea shorter if I'd been able to accurately depict what I mean in a monospaced ASCII illustration.

*Subjectively biased opinion.