Reladraw

Mermaid works great for fixed layouts like sequence diagrams and Gantts. For flowcharts, where position is king, it's bad. I've tried using svg in my MD files but they get…

This is a wonderful idea that fills a gap that has caused me much pain! When it's more stable I'll be looking for (or creating) an Obsidian plugin, a VS Code extension, etc.…

This genuinely fucks. Thank you Fighting with mermaid is so frustraiting, especially when it comes to normal vs github formatting. This is going to replace several ad-hoc half…

This is very needed in the AI coding age! I find diagramming is one of the best ways for high bandwidth alignment between my mental model and the agent’s. I have been working on…

I love it, and I wish it was part of Mermaid. I've always struggled with the presentation and agents tend to hack or just straight use SVG lol

Seems a little buggy, I added this line: edge parser -> renderer "test edge" from: left to: right and it wasn't smart enough to make a curved arrow

I’m excited to see this, but switching many of the examples from “dark” to “light” or “print” theme leaves the boxes black and the text unreadable.

That's an interesting idea, and an unexplored design space. Graphviz's dot has rank and head/tail ports, and Plantuml's class diagram has some support for relative position, but…

If this were implemented in a language with fewer dependencies, it'd be great.

I was looking for something like this. I wish it had different themes, the will prob be the best improvement.

That's an interesting idea, and an unexplored design space. Graphviz's dot has rank and head/tail ports, and Plantuml's class diagram has some support for relative position, but…

This is a wonderful idea that fills a gap that has caused me much pain! When it's more stable I'll be looking for (or creating) an Obsidian plugin, a VS Code extension, etc.…

Love it! I created a VSCode extension to render it in markdown files and highlight its syntax: https://github.com/volkanunsal/relative-diagrams-vscode/

That's a cool idea. I'll add it to my todo list. Going from reladraw -> drawio is probably the easier direction. drawio -> reladraw is probably the more challenging piece,…

This is basically tikz's positioning library (right=of, below left=of) without having to touch LaTeX. With tikz it was never the nodes that hurt me, it was the edges. Once two…

This is basically tikz's positioning library (right=of, below left=of) without having to touch LaTeX. With tikz it was never the nodes that hurt me, it was the edges. Once two…

Mermaid works great for fixed layouts like sequence diagrams and Gantts. For flowcharts, where position is king, it's bad. I've tried using svg in my MD files but they get…

I love it, and I wish it was part of Mermaid. I've always struggled with the presentation and agents tend to hack or just straight use SVG lol

Thanks very much! Yea, with .dot, the layout engine decides where things go. So, the agent doesn't know what the result looks like, leading to render, look, fiddle loops. And,…

Great! Reminds me of Pikchr a bit https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/homepage.md

https://d2lang.com/ works well?

Thanks for mentioning TALA. I feel like TALA does add more control than Mermaid, but in spirit sits closer to Mermaid than Reladraw. It keeps the auto layout, but with extra ways…

This is basically tikz's positioning library (right=of, below left=of) without having to touch LaTeX. With tikz it was never the nodes that hurt me, it was the edges. Once two…