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While I agree, formatting languages like Mermaid or PlantUML are human readable enough to grasp them and their meaning from reading the textual form. And, as o
by berkes 5y ago
While I agree, formatting languages like Mermaid or PlantUML are human readable enough to grasp them and their meaning from reading the textual form.
And, as others below point out, editability is another great treat of Markdown. ASCII charts are very hard to format; you'll really need tools or editor plugins for that.
So I think that Mermaid (and PlantUML) strike a very pragmatic and human-friendly balance. Which, IMO is the actual spirit of Markdown.
- Steltek 5y ago> ASCII charts are very hard to format; you'll really need tools or editor plugins for that. Even with tools and plugins, creating tables in Markdown (in any flavor) is painful enough that I just don't even try. No one really expects to edit an image with a text editor but tables are tantalizing close. I'd sooner have ASCII inspired tables that are easier to edit than images and diagrams.
- IggleSniggle 5y agoI do tables, but I will admit to having them auto-formatted on save. That is, I type a pipe separated list manually, and auto-space it on save.
- anchpop 5y agoIIRC vscode does this by default, definitely a really handy feature