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knsv

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About knsv

Creator of Mermaid, CTO and founder of Mermaid Chart

Recent public activity

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    Comment #43567723

    Adding a ticket for this :)

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    Comment #43567717

    Using the extension, you can see your changes from the Mermaid Code rendered as a diagram in real-time. If you also want to interact with the diagram itself to make the changes, yo…

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    Comment #43566866

    No it can not. That's an interesting idea, though, but one would need to navigate/differentiate between the rendered output text and the Mermaid diagram code.

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    Comment #43565832

    Hi, I wanted to add some clarification on this topic. I am Knut Sveidqvist, the inventor of Mermaid and creator of the Mermaid open-source project. I'm also the co-founder of Merma…

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    Comment #43559538

    More good input! Appreciate it. What about PNG export? It seems more direct than a PDF to me.

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    Comment #43559446

    That's good feedback. The icons are not bundled into Mermaid itself due to copyright concerns. The approach you suggest would make sense, though.

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    Comment #43559233

    You are right! A light plugin was released then. Now, we have added lots of new functionality. Proper editing with syntax highlighting, etc. Apart from that, we have also added int…

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    Comment #42739922

    Thanks, I uploaded it!

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    Comment #42739592

    Yes! You can use this in the free mermaid playground: https://www.mermaidchart.com/play

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    Comment #41264510

    Agree but we are changing things up to make this easier. In the upcoming Mermaid version 11, we are adding a way to select which layout algorithm is used to layout the diagram. We …

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    Comment #39776325

    Glad you love Mermaid! As both the creator of Mermaid and the founder of Mermaid Chart, I can honestly say that both are close to my heart. My hope with Mermaid Chart was to spend …

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    Comment #38642371

    Mermaid Chart introduces a new Visual Editor for flowcharts, enabling users of all skill levels to create diagrams easily and efficiently, with both GUI and code-based editing opti…

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    Comment #38037882

    Knut, Mermaid's creator here. I agree that layout auto-adjustments in flowcharts can be problematic, especially when subgraphs represent architectural subsystems as they are not re…

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    Comment #37237877

    Some thoughts on special cases, a love-hate relationship, I guess :)

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    Comment #37232504

    Good point. Finding a middle ground is the way to go. Keeping enough details in the diagrams to keep them useful but without the extra overhead. You cant keep all the details in th…

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    Comment #36757191

    New Integration Enhances Workflows By Enabling Developers To Reference And Edit Diagrams Within Visual Studio Code.

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    Comment #36521979

    Mermaid Chart’s new ChatGPT plugin integrates AI-powered text prompts with Mermaid’s intuitive diagramming editor, enabling users to generate, edit, and share complex diagrams with…

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    Comment #36344074

    The problem with state machines that I run into often when using them, is "multi-dimensional" states. When managing to get that right they are great, otherwise you get loads of edg…

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    Comment #36343599

    Thanks I am happy to hear that!