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diagrams-pandoc: A Pandoc filter to express diagrams inline using the Haskell EDSL _Diagrams_

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'diagrams-pandoc' replaces appropriately marked code blocks in pandoc input with images. The code blocks are compiled using the Haskell EDSL Diagrams. Each block should define a Diagram named example, to be output. This name and other defaults can be overridden by command-line arguments to the diagrams-pandoc program.

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Versions [RSS] 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.3.1, 0.3.1.1, 0.4, 0.4.1
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Dependencies base (>=4.16 && <4.22), diagrams-builder (>=0.7 && <0.9), diagrams-cairo (>=1.3 && <1.6), diagrams-core (>=1.4 && <1.6), diagrams-lib (>=1.3 && <1.6), diagrams-pandoc, diagrams-svg (>=1.4 && <1.6), directory (>=1.2 && <1.4), filepath (>=1.3 && <1.6), hashable (>=1.2 && <1.6), linear (>=1.10 && <1.24), optparse-applicative (>=0.11 && <0.20), pandoc (>=3.0 && <3.8), pandoc-types (>=1.23 && <1.24), svg-builder (>=0.1 && <0.2), text (>=1.2 && <2.2) [details]
Tested with ghc ==9.2.8 || ==9.4.8 || ==9.6.5 || ==9.8.2 || ==9.10.1 || ==9.12.1
License BSD-3-Clause
Author Daniel Bergey
Maintainer diagrams-discuss@googlegroups.com
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Bug tracker http://github.com/diagrams/diagrams-pandoc/issues
Source repo head: git clone http://github.com/diagrams/diagrams-pandoc.git
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Readme for diagrams-pandoc-0.4.1

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A pandoc filter to express diagrams inline using the haskell EDSL diagrams.

Usage

Create an input file called demo.md with the following text:

    This is how to draw a circle:
    ~~~ diagram
    example = circle 1
    ~~~

Install diagrams-pandoc, then run pandoc as follows:

    pandoc -t html demo.md --filter diagrams-pandoc -o demo.html -s

The file demo.html should now have an img tag pointing at a PNG of a circle.

Attributes

You can specify attributes to control how the diagram is generated. The following, for example,

    ~~~ {.diagram width=800 height=400 caption="A circle"}
    example = circle 1
    ~~~

will override the default width and height of the generated diagram, and provide a caption for it. The following attributes are supported:

  • width: The width of the generated diagram, in pixels. The default is 500.
  • height: The height of the generated diagram, in pixels. The default is 200.
  • caption: The caption of the diagram. Providing a caption makes the diagram appear as a figure, rather than an inline image. Diagrams have no caption by default.
  • alt: The alt text of the diagram. The caption is used as the default value if it is provided, otherwise it is empty.

Details

diagrams-pandoc compiles code blocks containing diagrams expressions and includes the resulting images in the pandoc markup. It is meant to be run as a pandoc filter as shown above.

diagrams-pandoc evaluates the diagrams expression example by default. This can be modified by passing a command line argument.

diagrams-pandoc is aware of two code block classes. A block with the diagram class will be replaced by the resulting image---the code will not appear in the output. A block with the diagram-haskell class will produce both an image and a (syntax highlighted) code block. The input block is replaced by image appears before the code block, and the diagram-haskell class is replaced by the haskell class, so that pandoc can perform syntax highlighting as usual.

diagrams-pandoc produces images in the pdf format when used with the latex and beamer writers of pandoc and produced png output otherwise.

I have only tested with pandoc's markdown reader. In particular, the rst reader does not attach classes to code blocks, only to Div elements.

Installing

diagrams-pandoc is on Hackage. To install, run cabal install diagrams-pandoc

TODO

  • use pandoc output type to pick an image file format
  • for formats which are more human-readable (eg, markdown, rst), leave code block alone?
  • provide command-line flags to override default behavior
  • add Backends besides Cairo
  • Support RST by handling Div class=diagram [CodeBlock foo bar] the same as CodeBlock class=diagram bar
  • Alternate install directions using stack