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lukeify • today at 8:21 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

Anytime I try mermaid for anything more complex than a toy diagram I always end up absolutely frustrated by the arcane and topologically poor layout that is produced.

Styling seems like a trivial problem by comparison.


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kepano • today at 8:38 PM

I strongly agree, and that's why I designed Pele to only follow its syntax not its layout. See the examples https://pele.run/examples

The playground also has a Compare mode https://pele.run/playground

giancarlostoro • today at 9:23 PM

I kinda just shove what I want out of it to literally any basic model from the frontier labs, I usually dont need anything super fancy, but it does the job, even color coded regions for me (which is fancier than I usually do) and then I can shove that into Lucid since it can render them.

tptacek • today at 8:38 PM

Graph layout is a famously hard problem!

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oliveralbertini • today at 8:39 PM

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