Nothing mechanical that I know of. There was a totally unrelated
product made by a chap in Yorkshire; it allowed one to draw a network
just as I had envisaged it for the Plumber's Workbench, but alas,
either he didn't understand what I was asking, or, more likely, he
didn't want to be bothered by IBM.
I find the left-hand notation helpful so that end characters stack
along with the stage separators. There is FMTP XEDIT on the download
site to help with that (and also an older version shipped with z/VM).
I also find "Gribbin-style" block comments useful: They are written
in-line with the comma where the stage separators stack up.
| ...
, /* A comment which could even be a box comment */
\a:
| ...
And there is an entire chapter about editing pipelines in the Author's Edition.
On 2 August 2011 01:38, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote:
> On 8/1/2011 17:06, Peter Kiesel wrote:
>>
>> Am looking for a tool that will draw written pipes. Anyone aware of one?
>>
>> In looking at some Pipes code I've inherited, I'd like to 'get the big
>> picture'.
>>
> Me, too. But, rather, I'd like some guidelines for formatting
> Pipes code so the topology is intuitively obvious to the most
> casual observer.
>
> I'd like to see connectors to the same node vertically aligned,
> but I can't make this work, at least not without clutter and
> without exceeding the screen width.
>
> Perhaps one of Melinda's documents? Which is best?
>
> (Of course a Pipes prettyprinter would satisfy both the OP's
> wish and mine. I've never found a prettyprinter for any
> language that didn't offend my sense of esthetics. But here
> I might repress my pride. Is there a prettyprinter?)
>
> Thanks,
> gil
>
