[MlMt] Two questions

[Bill Cole]

On 2024-12-19 at 23:48:06 UTC-0500 (Thu, 19 Dec 2024 22:48:06 -0600)
Jeff Bullard via mailmate <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:

> I an a fairly new user so I apologize if the answers to this question 
> are obvious, but I searched this mailing list and the issue tracker 
> and could find only one somewhat related thread that didn’t help me.
>
> **TL;DR** I need help getting Mermaid syntax and finding out how some 
> of the bundles should be used.  BTW I seem to be using a pre-release 
> somehow, Build 5937, so maybe that is an issue?
>
> ### Mermaid integration
>
> The TeXMath bundle works really well:
>
> ~~~math
> \int x\, \text{d}x = \frac{1}{2} x^2 + C
> ~~~
>
> But when I try Mermaid like this,
>
> ```
> ~~~mermaid
> graph LR
> 	A —> B
> 		B —> C
> ~~~
> ```
>
> I get an orange message above the header that says
> ```
> Bundle command failed (event: generate_diagram)
> Explanation			Unable to reach output
> 				format type (discard !=html)
> ```

 From what I understand of Mermaid, it uses JavaScript. MailMate (like 
almost every MUA) wisely has no support for running JavaScript in email 
and never should. You probably just need to create the diagram manually 
and embed the graphic.


> I have mermaid-cli installed on my Mac, and I can generate Mermaid 
> graphics from the command line using exactly that same syntax, so 
> I’m not sure what is going wrong.

There's no bundle for it. I would not expect such a bundle to be 
possible, but maybe I'm missing something.

(I have never used Fantastical, so I don't have any answer to your 
question about that.)

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Bill Cole
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