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ASCII seems like a lot. Are there no simpler methods?
by chirau 7y ago
ASCII seems like a lot. Are there no simpler methods?
- ravenstine 7y agohttps://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/examples https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/examples
- numbsafari 7y agoI'm guessing the parent is being down-voted for simply pasting a link with no context. For the kind of diagrams I typically want to include in a Markdown document (a quick DB ERD, a class diagram, a deployment diagram, state charts, or sequence diagrams), those things can be described in a simple descriptive form and then drawn from that. I don't want to draw. I think a good tool for that is Mermaid.JS (see the parent link). However, what I think the Markdeep approach has over the Mermaid approach is that Markdeep fits the general ethos of Markdown much better: start with a readable doc. I would agree that an ASCII art picture is more readable than Mermaid.JS. It'd be nice to see approaches like Mermaid with a bit more energy into making the markdown behind the diagrams a bit more readable relative to where they are now, so that consumers of the raw markdown have an easier time.