Generate Flowcharts from Text
I have come to the conclusion there are two kinds of audience and two kinds of diagram, abs they almost exactly overlap<p>1. Engineering diagrams, explaining concepts to other engineers who are using the diagram as a jumping off point to deeper explorations<p>2. "Business" diagrams - the sort of thing we want to see in a Medium article or presentation.  The style and correct placement matters far more than engineering.<p>The first is very amenable to markdown style production - often we want to spend no more than a few minutes creating the diagram.  We get (60?) 80% of the way there with 20% effort.<p>But with <i>every</i> markdown approach I have tried the remaining 20% is flat out days of work.  There is almost always a need to place <i>that</i> box there and have this one below and to the right and dammit the layout engine will not agree.<p>What I would ideally like is a combo - markdown to get me most of the way there, and then drop into some vector format that lets me tweak.