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Moin,
On Friday 14 January 2005 01:03, Jakob Voss wrote:
Tels wrote:
On Thursday 13 January 2005 19:43, Jakob Voss
wrote:
My main
interest in this area lies in _easily_ documentating network
plans, flow charts, schematics and other things in that area. IMHO
having such a feature in a wiki would be very usefull.
Then please call it <easygraph> or something like this. I'd better
like a plugin for all kind of graphs and GraphViz is obviously the
best one.
I have to disagree.
First, I didn't know that there is a graphviz plugin (or anyother
extension, I overlooked extension), and if there is a name-clash, I
will rename my plugin.
Ok, if there is also <graphviz> I don't mind. Thanks for your work
anyway.
Second:
Even knowing the graphviz plugin, I would redo the work I did for
several reasons:
* output: I don't like these types of graph-images. Beside that I
like ASCII/HTML output over PNG etc, IMHO the output of graphviz
looks ugly.
Well, uglyness is a very subjective argument that may fit to both.
* I find the graphviz language too complicated in
the same sense that
HTML is too complicated over the normal wiki language. Compare the
example from
http://www.wickle.com/wikis/index.php/Graphviz_extension
with one of my more complicated examples, I think my formatting is
visual more distinct. (Of course, both languages should be
"equivalent", e.g. it should be possible to write a converter - which
means the language the graph is written in will be irrelevant)
If you draw complicated graphs, graphviz is complicated but not more
compicated than any other language, including yours. But there is a
limit in graphviz: you cannot embed Wikilinks! So if your plugin
produces clickable images like Erik's Timeline that would be really
useful.
Cool idea :o) I am currently on a vacation, but I will implement it soon
to see how that looks :)
Interestingly enough, since my plugins output is some sort of text, you
can also copy & past the output, and in quite a lot of cases and up with
something resembling the original input. Which means, that also searhc
engines will be able to index it etc. I think any graphical output could
be "spiced" up with mouse-over maps, annotations and/or comments, if I
ever go this route.
Best wishes,
Tels
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