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This is pretty cool! I'm a visual thinker but also love how lightweight/transportable/open text is. Historically, images have been so hard to edit/update/mainta
by jeffhwang 4y ago
This is pretty cool! I'm a visual thinker but also love how lightweight/transportable/open text is. Historically, images have been so hard to edit/update/maintain; plus either they or their tools are proprietary.
If Mermaid.js really gives us what Markdown does (separation of content and presentation), I'm all for it. Gonna explore this more....
- fsflyer 4y agoMermaid only supports a few types of diagrams, but it's great for those. For a more general language, pikchr can be useful. It's a variation on the troff era language pic that generates SVG from text. From the SQLite folks. [0] https://pikchr.org https://pikchr.org
- jeffhwang 4y agoThanks for pointing this out to me. Will check it out!