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Re:Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid by ak217 on Monday February 14, 2022 @01:52PM (#30336411)
Mermaid is fantastic. Aside from mermaid, I've recently been introduced to nomnoml (https://nomnoml.com/) and it is fantastic as well.

My wish is for Mermaid and nomnoml to become universally supported among Markdown web renderers (I'm looking first and foremost at Github of course).

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Re:Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid by KaoruAoiShiho on Monday February 14, 2022 @02:46PM (#30337244)
I'm using mermaid to render this route map for interactive fiction: https://fiction.live/tsukihime/Satsuki-Yumizuka-Route/4B9obc...

How does nomnoml compare? The results are with mermaid are not ideal for me.

Edit: That one above is actually relatively decent. The results with mermaid can get a lot worse, actually to the point of uselessness.

Terrible examples below

https://fiction.live/stories/The-Hypno-Games/eSSzPJ6qiqAC746...

https://fiction.live/stories/The-Gynarchy/czyGfAtJpRgtzGFmW/...

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Re:Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid by thuringia on Monday February 14, 2022 @03:02PM (#30337475)
I don’t know about nomnoml but dot/graphviz works very well for this type of chart. Definitely another idea to try out.

PS: thanks for investing so much work into Tsukihime!

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Re:Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid by sundarurfriend on Monday February 14, 2022 @10:39PM (#30342463)
Not sure why, but none of these render anything for me. It gives the progress message, then I get a plain square with no content in it. I've tried Firefox with and without uBlock enabled, and Brave with "Shields" up and down.

edit: Oh, I'm on Linux btw.

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Re:Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid by Ciph on Monday February 14, 2022 @02:26PM (#30336961)
I love mermaid, but I'm also very annoyed by the variety of how its implemented in different markdown editors. One thing that I find quite annoying is the lack of fontawesome support - afaik only the live mermaid editor and hack.md supports it out of the box. Other editors require a lot of .conf file editing.

Thanks for the tip of nomnoml, didn't know about it.

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