Tangentially related: generate a call graph from TypeScript files - a "flow chart" for code :)
Generate Flowcharts from Text
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#122I have come to the conclusion there are two kinds of audience and two kinds of diagram, abs they almost exactly overlap 1. Engineering diagrams, explaining concepts to other engineers who are using the diagram as a jumping off point to deeper explorations 2. "Business" diagrams - the sort of thing we want to see in a Medium article or presentation. The style and correct placement matters far more than engineering. Th…
For (1), I am sold on goat . ASCII art to SVG, from the command line: https://github.com/blampe/goat Embed diagrams in source code comments; build script greps through and writes out an SVG. A caveat is that to be adequately productive, you need rectangle-oriented editing, such as with Emacs’ “M-x string-rectangle”.
Wow, I didn’t know I was looking for this before you shared it! Thank you so much and huge kudos to the authors, this is a fantastic tool.
Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text
#123I have come to the conclusion there are two kinds of audience and two kinds of diagram, abs they almost exactly overlap 1. Engineering diagrams, explaining concepts to other engineers who are using the diagram as a jumping off point to deeper explorations 2. "Business" diagrams - the sort of thing we want to see in a Medium article or presentation. The style and correct placement matters far more than engineering. Th…
Have you tried PlantUML? It provides means of adjusting the layout. I use it often, most of the time the adjustment is good enough for engineering communication within minutes of adjustment. It could be better if there is more cohesive documentation of its support for the adjustment. I had to search on Google many times to figure out how to add the adjustment. The adjustment consists of directives of placement and di…
Is there a javascript/clientside library which implements the plantuml visualizations? Viz.js is linked on plantuml page but it appears to be archived.
Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text
#124I have come to the conclusion there are two kinds of audience and two kinds of diagram, abs they almost exactly overlap 1. Engineering diagrams, explaining concepts to other engineers who are using the diagram as a jumping off point to deeper explorations 2. "Business" diagrams - the sort of thing we want to see in a Medium article or presentation. The style and correct placement matters far more than engineering. Th…
Have you tried PlantUML? It provides means of adjusting the layout. I use it often, most of the time the adjustment is good enough for engineering communication within minutes of adjustment. It could be better if there is more cohesive documentation of its support for the adjustment. I had to search on Google many times to figure out how to add the adjustment. The adjustment consists of directives of placement and di…
I have not seen the layout adjustment features, but I’ve very recently been using pandoc and plantuml for all my design docs at work. I find it to be highly productive, though I still end up uploading the resultant word file to one drive for collaboration and review since that’s what everyone else uses.
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#125Nice and simple.
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#126Lucidchart does similar for sequence diagrams, works well: https://lucidchart.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/208029986
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#127I have come to the conclusion there are two kinds of audience and two kinds of diagram, abs they almost exactly overlap 1. Engineering diagrams, explaining concepts to other engineers who are using the diagram as a jumping off point to deeper explorations 2. "Business" diagrams - the sort of thing we want to see in a Medium article or presentation. The style and correct placement matters far more than engineering. Th…
Just a thought / realisation.
"A picture paints a thousand words", so why should we expect it possible to describe some pictures with less words.
Some paintings can be described effectively with "four tins of campbells tomato soup, one in each quadrant".
Other pictures cannot - "Adam reaching out to touch Gods finger"
Maybe we just need to paint sometimes, and maybe learn the difference between the two kinds - when we need to escape from code.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve started doing the same. Folks’ reading comprehension is in the gutter these days. Bullet points help structure thoughts and ideas.
Is reading comprehension in the gutter, or are people more resistant to emails full of badly-structured fluff?
What I find odd is that some of my best engineers write the worst emails (no structure, very verbose, emotive).
That might be their outlet perhaps after a spending a day being acutely focused on cutting code!
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
I totally had this thought too when making it. The logic is super simple as-is, so I was scared if I went down the rabbit whole of trying to auto increment/decrement line numbers I might muddy things up. I'll see if add that functionality cleanly at some point (or if you'd like to feel free to take out a PR!) Thanks for the feedback!
alternatively you could link to nodes by referencing their label? You might just also want an option to not render that label (ie have it be for the writer's benefit only).
added the concept of node ids and linking directly to them last night! now you can do something like
[custom id] hello world
child 1
child 2
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
alternatively you could link to nodes by referencing their label? You might just also want an option to not render that label (ie have it be for the writer's benefit only).
added the concept of node ids and linking directly to them last night! now you can do something like [custom id] hello world child 1 child 2 (custom id)
Nice - that's a great feature. I'm working on a graph based project and have to semi regularly visualise different kinds of directed graph and your project could really come in handy!