Programatic drawing

I spent most of yesterday doing a tool for programmatic drawing. I chose Ruby for this.

After getting to some point and discussing with a few folks about it - I was not able to articulate the need for such a tool ...

After thinking a little more I realized a usecase - 

A tool like this would help in drawing a diagramatic representation of a structure definition from a C source!!!

Doing it non-programmatically would not be so easy.

Anyway, I also realized that font rendering is a little more complicated that picking up the bitmap from the Linux source.

I am going ahead with the bitmap approach for now ... but I came across a nice ruby library ruby-ttf that can read tty information.