<p>Generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text in a similar manner as markdown.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Ever wanted to simplify documentation and avoid heavy tools like Visio when explaining your code?</p>
<p>This is why mermaid was born, a simple markdown-like script language for generating charts from text via javascript. <ahref="http://knsv.github.io/mermaid/live_editor">Try it using our editor</a>.</p>
title Adding GANTT diagram functionality to mermaid
section A section
Completed task :done, des1, 2014-01-06,2014-01-08
Active task :active, des2, 2014-01-09, 3d
Future task : des3, after des2, 5d
Future task2 : des4, after des3, 5d
section Critical tasks
Completed task in the critical line :crit, done, 2014-01-06,24h
Implement parser and jison :crit, done, after des1, 2d
Create tests for parser :crit, active, 3d
Future task in critical line :crit, 5d
Create tests for renderer :2d
Add to mermaid :1d</code></pre><p>Play with mermaid using this <ahref="http://danielmschmidt.github.io/mermaid-demo/">editor</a> or this <ahref="live_editor">live editor</a>.</p>
<h2id="credits">Credits</h2>
<p>Many thanks to the <ahref="http://d3js.org/">d3</a> and <ahref="https://github.com/cpettitt/dagre-d3">dagre-d3</a> projects for providing<br>the graphical layout and drawing libraries! Thanks also to the<br><ahref="http://bramp.github.io/js-sequence-diagrams">js-sequence-diagram</a> project for usage of the grammar for the<br>sequence diagrams.</p>
<p><em>Mermaid was created by Knut Sveidqvist for easier documentation.</em></p>
<p>Knut has not done all work by himself, here is the full list of the projects <ahref="https://github.com/knsv/mermaid/graphs/contributors">contributors</a>.</p>
<p>Mermaid is supported in a number of publishing systems and editors. Please report if a plugin/editor is missing from the list below:</p>
<ul>
<li>Support in LightPaper 1.2+. <ahref="https://github.com/42Squares/LightPaper/blob/master/doc/Adding%20Mermaid%20Diagrams.md">Howto</a>. Discout with code MERMAID_25</li>