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Re: Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid

#241
Zettlr[1] (FOSS) has mermaid support[2] included. Zettlr is a markdown editor for personal knowledge management and/or distraction free (scientific) writing w/ PDF publishing.

[1] https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr

[2] https://docs.zettlr.com/en/reference/markdown-basics/#zettlr...

Re: Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid

#249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> readable-as-text goals of markdown. Markdown was meant to be rendered, not left as plaintext (for viewing, at least as a primary use-case). It's name is a punny joke, but it's a lightweight mark up language that was meant to be a lightweight way to write formatted text that would be rendered as formatted HTML. GFM seems in keeping with this for the most part.

> Markdown was meant to be rendered, not left as plaintext Now it’s not. Markdown was intend to be legible in plain text but visually emulate rendered text. The rendering stuff came later but even then it still had an emphasis on plain text readability. There is a reason it was chosen for README, INSTALL etc documents in project repositories that are (or, at least until relatively recently in computing history, were…

Are you sure about this part:

> The rendering stuff came later

Here is the original announcement I was able to track down:

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001189

> For months I’ve been working with John Gruber on a new project. The idea was to make writing simple web pages, and especially weblog entries, as easy as writing an email, by allowing you to use much the same syntax and converting it automatically into HTML.

Seems that HTML rendering was there from day 1.

Re: Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid

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Cooool, this is used on github https://github.blog/2022-02-14-include-diagrams-markdown-fil... Also on Azure DevOps too https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/project/wiki/w... What a time to be alive! :-)

And GitLab since v10.3:

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2017/12/22/gitlab-10-3-rel...

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