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Ask HN: Guidelines for making clear architecture diagrams
As far as guidelines, I have spent time looking as well an never came away with a good answer. One useful website for comparing some of the best tools is https://text-to-diagram.com/. My personal favorite is D2. Still lacking a few layout features that I want, but it gets me 90% of the way there. The syntax is great for projects big to small, and it strikes the perfect balance between "create a diagram fast" and "feature rich". But in terms of actual guidelines, I would agree with another user that C4 actually tries to lay out some sort of guidelines.
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Nomnoml
One of those "text to diagram" contenders did a comparison website (open source) a while back: https://text-to-diagram.com/ (nomnoml isn't in there).
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Documentation as Code for Cloud Using PlantUML
Community list of comparisons between Text to Diagram tools: https://text-to-diagram.com/
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Sequence Diagrams in MermaidJS
https://text-to-diagram.com/?example=sequence&b=mermaid
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Is there a tool to visualize related stories, tasks, bugs, etc?
If you can get enough data out of the ticket system, maybe something like https://text-to-diagram.com/ will help.
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D2 (text-to-diagram language): Introducing Grid diagrams
We made a site to let people compare: https://text-to-diagram.com . (Mermaid maintainers contribute to it)
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Mermaid Cheat Sheet
I think Mermaid is better than PlantUML to write something quickly.
But D2 looks very promising. I like the simpler and more intuitive syntax.
https://text-to-diagram.com/
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The truth is, being a sysadmin can be a thankless job. What is something that you have done that your are proud of? AKA Toot your own horn Tuesday.
have you seen https://text-to-diagram.com/ for comparing these flowcharts including mermaidJS and graphwiz as you mentioned and there are a few more there.
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Generate diagrams programmatically with D2
Yes, it's a limited generator, because it's like 20 lines long and not the point of the article.
If you want to compare Mermaid against D2, take a look at https://text-to-diagram.com. The maintainers of Mermaid have contributed to it.
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D2: Free, open-source modern language for turning text to diagrams
For a comparison with other popular text-to-diagram tools: https://text-to-diagram.com (the maintainers of Mermaid have contributed to this).
KeenWrite
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Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
KeenWrite is my free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown editor that can produce beautifully typeset PDFs. I started working on it years ago to help write a novel that has a complex timeline and I couldn't find a text editor that would allow me to integrate a character sheet with the story itself.
https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite
Tutorials:
* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9...
Here's what I mean by using variables directly:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFCqe3A5dFg
CommonMark doesn't propose a standard for bibliographic references. Would anyone find the editor more appealing if it had cross-references and citations?
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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
- On why Markdown is not a good, or even a half-decent, markup language
- MdBook – Create book from Markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust
- KeenWrite 3.3.2: MermaidJS diagrams (with caveat)
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Interactive CommonMark Tutorial
Although not interactive, I've created a video series that shows advanced usage of Markdown. Namely R, external variables, diagrams, math, annotations, and a different approach to metadata:
* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9...
Tutorial 4 shows basic Markdown:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNbGSiRzx-0
The top-right of each video shows keyboard and mouse clicks to help follow along.[1] My desktop text editor, KeenWrite[2], is used in the tutorials.
[1]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/kmcaster
[2]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite
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“Exit Traps” Can Make Your Bash Scripts Way More Robust and Reliable
https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/main/scripts/bu...
My template script provides a way to make user-friendly shell scripts. In a script that uses the template, you define the dependencies and their sources:
DEPENDENCIES=(
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EchoSVG: SVG rasterizer library supporting level 4 selectors (Apache 2)
I didn't create the fork, nor am I affiliated with the project. I use it in my text editor, KeenWrite to rasterize SVG.
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Millions of dollars in time wasted making papers fit journal guidelines
KeenWrite Themes[1] are instructions that tell ConTeXt how to typeset XHTML documents (content) into PDF files (presentation). I made a tutorial that shows how my FOSS desktop text editor, KeenWrite[3], allows users to write in Markdown to typeset a document against a particular theme.
Before it can be used for scientific papers, it needs cross-references, which, unfortunately, aren't part of the CommonMark specification.
I posit that the vast majority of LaTeX users don't grok how to separate content from presentation. When I asked a question on TeX.SE about how to adjust the line spacing between enumerated items (spanning a couple dozen enumerated lists), the vast majority of people voted for the answer of using `\itemsep0em` to tweak each list ... individually.[4] The correct answer, IMO, is to fix the problem globally, and not waste time tweaking individual lists.
[1]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QpX70O5S30
[3]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite
[4]: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6081/reduce-space-be...
What are some alternatives?
d2 - D2 is a modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams.
markdown-preview.nvim - markdown preview plugin for (neo)vim
d2-playground - An online runner to play, learn, and create with D2, the modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams.
marktext - 📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows.
mermaid-cli - Command line tool for the Mermaid library
typst - A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.
d2-vscode - VSCode extension for D2 files.
vim-markdown - Markdown Vim Mode
obsidian-graphviz - Graphviz plugin for obsidian md.
Zettlr - Your One-Stop Publication Workbench
OpenDiablo2 - An implementation of Diablo 2 in AbyssEngine.
kroki - Creates diagrams from textual descriptions!