Mermaid: Generate Diagrams and Flowcharts with Markdown Like Syntax
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Re: Mermaid: Generate Diagrams and Flowcharts with Markdown Like Syntax
#2Nice. Live demo would be wonderful.
Re: Mermaid: Generate Diagrams and Flowcharts with Markdown Like Syntax
#3Nice. Live demo would be wonderful.
Re: Mermaid: Generate Diagrams and Flowcharts with Markdown Like Syntax
#4How does this compare to graphviz? (http://www.graphviz.org/)
Re: Mermaid: Generate Diagrams and Flowcharts with Markdown Like Syntax
#5As a reference: graphs with TikZ: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/tag/graphs/
Also a easy-to-write (and read!) syntax, but so much more powerful.
See also: https://www.overleaf.com/6471895cgxfsd#/21846512/ for automatic positioning.
Re: Mermaid: Generate Diagrams and Flowcharts with Markdown Like Syntax
#6This reminds me of PlantUML, http://plantuml.com/.
Re: Mermaid: Generate Diagrams and Flowcharts with Markdown Like Syntax
#7How does this compare to graphviz? ( http://www.graphviz.org/ )
They have a broadly similar syntax for directed graphs, but Mermaid also provides a simple syntax for drawing UML sequence or class diagrams. You can draw class diagrams with GraphViz, but it's comparatively kludgy [1].
[1]: http://www.ffnn.nl/pages/articles/media/uml-diagrams-using-g...
Re: Mermaid: Generate Diagrams and Flowcharts with Markdown Like Syntax
#8As a reference: graphs with TikZ: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/tag/graphs/ Also a easy-to-write (and read!) syntax, but so much more powerful. See also: https://www.overleaf.com/6471895cgxfsd#/21846512/ for automatic positioning.
The examples showing TikZ used to draw a sequence diagram [1, 2] or class diagram [3] are far more verbose than the examples in the mermaid readme [4], so mermaid looks easier to write.
[1]: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/pgf-umlsd/
[2]: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/sequence-diagram/
Re: Mermaid: Generate Diagrams and Flowcharts with Markdown Like Syntax
#9This reminds me of PlantUML, http://plantuml.com/ .
Very much so, I have tried to paste in some more complex sequence diagrams I have written and they almost work. Except no aliases and no on the fly creation/destruction of participants. (or maybe the syntax is different)
I would prefer if this actually followed the plantuml syntax exactly, that way one could ditch the official java application which is quite bad (and graphs are quite ugly)
Re: Mermaid: Generate Diagrams and Flowcharts with Markdown Like Syntax
#10Reminds me of http://www.websequencediagrams.com, though that isn't open source.