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Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

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I 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…

Input text in https://www.bpmn-sketch-miner.ai/doc/00-intro.html to create a BPMN, download it and edit in Camunda Modeler?

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

#133

I 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…

Minder is quick, flexible and exports to Mermaid and PlantUML https://github.com/phase1geo/Minder

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

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Could you elaborate on the best way to get started with this specifically? Any articles/tutorials you'd recommend? I've been meaning to forever but both svgs and d3 are complex enough I'm not sure where to start.

I would recommend starting with plain SVG and then exploring D3 after. It's best to think of D3 as a combination of jQuery and a geometry library. For starting with SVGs, just look for a simple tutorial like https://www.w3schools.com/graphics/svg_intro.asp to get a simple template, but focus on learning the path element. The path element is both foundational to a lot of custom SVG stuff and isn't too complicated, sor…

Thanks! Really appreciated.

I've gotten the hang of SVGs, is MBostock's blog still the best place to start with D3?

Re: Generate Flowcharts from Text

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Are you thinking of the default java gui for previewing plantuml docs? I think there's a timer down there to avoid polling the FS too often. Using a simple editor where everystroke recompiles, red warning in status bar while syntax is not OK (while still displaying the last good one), a 100loc canvas display window, done.

It only recompiles whenever I hit save, pretty sure the delay is from java startup time

That's why I'm saying to avoid the start time and to have editor and generator run in the same JVM. Ah if local serverless was a thing...
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