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D2 is a modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams.
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D2 is a modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams.
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| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 11 | 6 | 5 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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27 sourcesYeah it's just Mathjax equations. E.g. https://play.d2lang.com/?script=PNCxCsJADIfxPU_xH1uk4NzBJwlI...
I'm not familiar with EPS. Will investigate, ty. https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/489
In D2 language, open source alternative to PlantUMLThanks! We actually released a couple weeks ago, and since then it's been almost 100% fixing/improving things the community's surfaced. Long list of stuff here: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/releases.
Re fonts: that README is for contributing fonts. I'm not sure what the best solution is for custom fonts -- whether to just specify the name of a system font, a google font, point to a directory of local TTFs. Some discussion going on here: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/discussions/132
In D2 language, open source alternative to PlantUMLCongrats on the release! I gave it a spin before the launch of the playground, and really liked it
Did I understand correctly that, in order to use custom fonts, one has to recompile the code with appropriate .tff files? It's shortly mentioned [1].
[1] https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/tree/master/d2renderers/d2...
In D2 language, open source alternative to PlantUMLYou can trivially sidestep this with a main shell function called at the end of your script. https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/blob/729b12685af79bbdaf4b3...
In The Audacity of Piping Curl to Bashhi, I'm Alex at Terrastruct and we made this. we just launched D2 last week, where this site was brought up plenty, so I didn't expect this to come up again. happy to answer q's if any.
(we're working on a playground so that this site's examples can be runnable!)
i'll also use this opportunity to plug that this next release of D2 is going to be packed with features/improvements/fixes that came from feedback received on HN from the launch:
https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/blob/master/ci/release/cha...
https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/259
In Text to Diagram ToolsSince it's not mentioned, we also use as TODOs/issue-tracker.
https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues
We actually switched from Linear to Github Issues because of how nice it is to have the TODOs colocated with PRs and code.
I suspect some users may drive by and be turned away from the sheer number of open Issues, and that's okay to me. I hate projects that try to keep Issues to 0 -- especially the ones that auto-stale. It just makes it harder for me to see if the Issue was actually resolved or not.
In Open Source and Saying “No”yes, we support markdown, so latex would just be another language tag. you can follow here and be notified when it's ready: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/135
In D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open sourceFor windows you'll have to build from source for now as we don't have prebuilt releases. install.sh cannot run on windows anyway afaik unless windows now has a POSIX shell interpreter? We're likely going to add a chocolatey package too.
See https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/96
See https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.m...
In D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open sourceif you'd like to help, we're trying to figure some of these configs here in case something stands out to you! https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/95
In D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open sourceelkjs is an alternative! https://github.com/terrastruct/d2#plugins. we haven't gotten the defaults to look as good though
In D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open sourcety for the suggestion, our designer will come up with some! https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/158
In D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open sourceD2 has an AST API, so you should be able to transpile from other graph libraries easily. see the second half of https://github.com/terrastruct/d2#d2-as-a-library
In D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open sourcewe'll get this up next week.
https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/96
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