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 aafigure README
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aafigure is an ASCII art to image converter.

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ASCII art figures can be parsed and output as SVG, PNG, JPEG, PDF and more.
This project provides a Python package, a command line script as well as
Docutils and MoinMoin plugins.

An Ubuntu package is available:
    https://launchpad.net/~aafigure-team/+archive/ppa

The project is also registered in PyPi:
    http://pypi.python.org/pypi/aafigure

The project is managed in Launchpad (Answers, Bug Tracking and Code)
    https://launchpad.net/aafigure

License:
    Simplified BSD License, see LICENSE.txt


Documentation
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A manual can be found in the documentation directory. The .rst files can
be looked at with a text editor or they can be compiled to HTML or PDF
using Sphinx.


Installation
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Detailed instructions about different install methods are described in the
file documentation/manual.rst.

Short version:  python setup.py install
