mermaidjs/mermaid-live-editor

Feature request: draw graph in ascii art

cdmihai opened this issue · 14 comments

cdmihai commented

I'd like to include mermaid graphs in our markdown documentation on github. One way is to have the live editor to generate ASCII art which I can copy paste into my markdown document.

mzvast commented

I like this feature

MKyhos commented

With the now available Mermaid support in Github Markdown, this is probably not necessary from initial intention, however it would still be sometimes useful if one wants to include diagrams directly in the code comments (or is this a rare use case?)

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devthejo commented

and for output of a cli it would be great too

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esafirm commented

This would be nice and we can move on from asciiflow 😄

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KSDaemon commented

yeah. One of the cases for this: IETF RFCs are still rendered as plain texts. So even if you want to use some up-to-date awesome tool for diagrams, you still need to convert them to the ASCII representation. If you can not do it automatically — then the only option is just not to use cool tools at all ((( And create diagrams from the beginning by hand is asciiflow for example.

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OR13 commented

I would love a way to convert mermaid to ascii for use in IETF RFCs.

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