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Re:Penrose: Create diagrams by typing mathematical notation ... by crispyambulance on Monday May 11, 2020 @06:33AM (#23140657)
To be fair, a project like this should be encrusted with picture examples on its "front page"-- like D3.js.

The thing makes graphs for Christ's sake.

Your github link is just a dump of source code. One would have to go through a lot of steps to actually see what they even render.

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Re:Penrose: Create diagrams by typing mathematical notation ... by craftinator on Monday May 11, 2020 @10:00AM (#23142216)
Check out the wiki: https://github.com/penrose/penrose/wiki

It has rendered examples for all types of graphs.

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Re:Penrose: Create diagrams by typing mathematical notation ... by crispyambulance on Monday May 11, 2020 @01:25PM (#23144600)
That's nice.

It looks like a cool project and they say it's still in early stages. It's a pity they don't put pictures on the splash page. Pictures communicate better than anything else what the capabilities of the tool are.

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Re:Penrose: Create diagrams by typing mathematical notation ... by egwor on Monday May 11, 2020 @08:40AM (#23141435)
I think a README.md with the render in each directory would be useful or maybe one README.md in the examples dir that refers to each example with a bit of context of why it might be something to do/use would suffice?
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