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This is pretty cool! I'm a visual thinker but also love how lightweight/transportable/open text is. Historically, images have been so hard to edit/update/maintain; plus either they or their tools are proprietary.

If Mermaid.js really gives us what Markdown does (separation of content and presentation), I'm all for it. Gonna explore this more....

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Mermaid only supports a few types of diagrams, but it's great for those. For a more general language, pikchr can be useful. It's a variation on the troff era language pic that generates SVG from text. From the SQLite folks.

[0] https://pikchr.org

Thanks for pointing this out to me. Will check it out!

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