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by zelphirkalt 1205 days ago
> Agree with others that Mermaid and PlantUML are very useful, but sometimes you need high degrees of visual customization that they don’t give.

I agree with that and it is the reason I have not yet adopted using Mermaid more.

Would be nice to have Mermaid output some form of standard XML describing the graph and then being able to edit it with a graph editing tool.

I often use yEd for making diagrams, but it is not free/libre software. Still the most capable graph editor I know. It stores graphs as XML "graphml", which is structured data of course. Now if we could have a standard format for graphs and visual attributes of graphs like graphml (maybe even graphml, if it is an open standard?) to export to, when using Mermaid, that would be awesome.

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I would love it if Mermaid or PlantUML could export to Keynote or similar.