I am not going to draw hyperbola, math equations or whatever that is. I don't want to spend next week configuring LaTeX. I just want to plug in some js library and have Gantt/Flow/Sequence diagram, which I don't want to draw by hand or save in some binary format but want to put it in GIT repo.
I tried LaTeX twice it just does not work on Windows, and I don't really need it that much. I have no time to find out why it does not work out of the box for me. Just like dropbox, I install app and it syncs my files, setting VPS with Rsync could work but I do not have time to troubleshoot it in case something is not working.
Just tried using this for a project last week. Whatever algorithm it uses for positioning nodes is terrible. You end up with a huge confusing spaghetti mess of a diagram.
I had the same problem until I realized that the order matters very much. You may want to try to move the code around a bit and see if the result is improved.
I was just doing some diagrams last night. And my wife told me:"Why don't you make a program that makes them?" and I just thought: "She has no idea how hard that would be".
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Awesome work!
It would be really cool if you could have mermaid/graphviz blocks in your R-notebook.
The syntax looks very similar and I wonder whether it is a superset of plantUML format. That would actually be great.
Viz.js is a port of Graphviz for browsers, http://viz-js.com/
Edit. - found this https://github.com/mermaidjs/mermaid.cli