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WireViz: Easily document cables and wiring harnesses
Your wish showing up in the face of a submission just 14 days ago and then another 29 days ago must be indicative of why there are so many dupes all the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=kroki.io
You can feel free to submit the GH repo, as that one doesn't seem to have been submitted before https://github.com/yuzutech/kroki
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D2 Playground
Pikchr https://pikchr.org/home/pikchrshow is the other general purpose one and older than d2. It is "Source-Code License: 0-clause BSD" as it says on the page.
Someone made it into wasm and put playground for pikchr here https://www.jakethaw.com/pikchr_webassembly_demo/
Can also try pikchr online here on https://kroki.io/#try which is hosting many other text to diagram tools as well.
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Mermaid Chart, a Markdown-like tool for creating diagrams, raises $7.5M
I use mermaid.js heavily, but plug for Kroki:
https://kroki.io/
“Kroki provides a unified API with support for BlockDiag (BlockDiag, SeqDiag, ActDiag, NwDiag, PacketDiag, RackDiag), BPMN, Bytefield, C4 (with PlantUML), D2, DBML, Ditaa, Erd, Excalidraw, GraphViz, Mermaid, Nomnoml, Pikchr, PlantUML, Structurizr, SvgBob, Symbolator, TikZ, UMLet, Vega, Vega-Lite, WaveDrom, WireViz... and more to come!”
- Kroki: A unified API to create any kind of diagram from text
- Kroki – Creates diagrams from textual descriptions
- How to draw beautiful software architecture diagrams
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Nomnoml
If you don't mind my asking, what aspects of "acceptable layout" is usually the first to get busted?
I'm extremely excited about using WireViz[1] to automate wiring harness diagram creation, and if I can, I'd like to know the speedbumps before I hit them. I'm thinkin generous linking between diagrams will be one path.
[1] Project:: https://github.com/wireviz/WireViz SandboxP:: https://kroki.io/#try [select Diagram>WireViz]
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LaTeX for publishing tabletop role-playing games
The SVG output is embedded into the PDF file.
https://kroki.io/examples.html#mind-map
Kroki has other text-based formats for flow charts, Gantt charts, UML diagrams, packet diagrams, network diagrams, word clouds, etc.
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Documentation as Code for Cloud Using PlantUML
My cross-platform desktop text editor, KeenWrite, allows users to define variables in an external YAML file. The editor calls out to Kroki[1] to convert text-based diagrams to SVG. The diagrams can reference variables and are rendered using EchoSVG[2].
KeenWrite[3] can produce PDF documentation from Markdown documents that has PlantUML diagrams with elements stored in an external, machine-readable file. Here are screenshots showing variables on the left, diagram text in the middle, and a real-time render on the right:
* https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/main/...
* https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/main/...
KeenWrite supports all diagrams offered by Kroki, which includes "diagram-plantuml".
[1]: https://kroki.io/
[2]: https://github.com/css4j/echosvg/
[3]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite
- Pikchr: A PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation
DND-5e-LaTeX-Template
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LaTeX for publishing tabletop role-playing games
> Creating a theme for tabletop role-playing games would take some elbow grease
The article links to several, including a convincing reproduction of basic Wizards of the Coast house style for D&D 5E:
https://github.com/rpgtex/DND-5e-LaTeX-Template
Here's another 5E one with additional sidebar styles:
https://github.com/anoderay/DND-5e-LaTeX-Template/
Also 5E-inspired, with a template for card accessories:
https://github.com/Krozark/RPG-LaTeX-Template
A 5E-compatible character sheet:
https://github.com/matsavage/DND-5e-LaTeX-Character-Sheet-Te...
CTAN also has packages for Basic D&D-inspired typesetting (rpg-module, also linked from the article), GURPS (gurps), generic hex boards (hexboard), and wargame hex boards with counters (wargame).
There are also indie TTRPGs that've shipped using custom LaTeX templates; this one has CC-BY licensed source: https://github.com/ludus-leonis/nipajin
And the blog author's own, with a more restrictive CC-NC-SA license: https://github.com/Vladar4/itdr
From personal experience, the biggest struggle is non-rectangular text wrapping around images.
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What is the current status of Latex?
Started using LateX for academic papers, back in 2002, nowadays I use Latex for almost everything, for my work as a professor - which includes papers I submit and teaching materials I write - but also for formal letters, contracts and even games - see for example D&D 5e Latex. Latex is used for tons and applications in different fields, and its vast library is a small sample of that.
- Do you guys write your own primers/booklets/zines for your players? Looking for tips for publishing a 'players guide' with house rules. (DND)
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What app should I use to actually write the system?
Use Overleaf, once you know Latex you can create easily a decent write up, especially when you use DND-5e-LaTeX-Template as a basis.
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what's the best software for making rulebooks
if you have a techy background, TeX is always an option whih produces gorgious output and there are various templates available, e.g. this dnd template.
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LaTEX template for an RPG book
Dark Latex D&D5e Template
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Emulating the Style of Another Document
You can find the template here: github, or here for Overleaf. Good luck!
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Design Software Question
While I personally use it for typesetting my RPG books, and it is very commonly used among the RPG sphere's I'm in.
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Tools for rule book creation?
There is a specific template originally used or intended for Dungeons and Dragons called the DND-5e-LaTeX-Template or directly from Overleaf as a downloadable Template
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Best way to practice!
For those who interested: https://github.com/rpgtex/DND-5e-LaTeX-Template
What are some alternatives?
Mermaid - Edit, preview and share mermaid charts/diagrams. New implementation of the live editor.
homebrewery - Create authentic looking D&D homebrews using only markdown
plantuml-syntax - vim syntax file for plantuml
DND-5e-LaTeX-Character-Template - LaTeX package to typeset character sheets for the fifth edition of the "world's greatest roleplaying game".
plantuml - Generate diagrams from textual description
solbera-dnd-fonts - Solbera's DND5e fonts
mermaid - Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown
masterplan - Masterplan is an application that helps you to build D&D 4E campaigns.
venn.nvim - Draw ASCII diagrams in Neovim
pandoc-latex-template - A pandoc LaTeX template to convert markdown files to PDF or LaTeX.
Zettlr - Your One-Stop Publication Workbench
CV - Automatically updated Material Design themed CV (template & personal)