[MlMt] Two questions

[mailmate at businessdatasystems.co.nz]

On 22 Dec 2024, at 7:53, Bill Cole wrote:

> 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.

The preferences document https://manual.mailmate-app.com/preferences says:

> 	MailMate supports drawing diagrams using Mermaid. Here’s a very simply example:
>
> 	~~~mermaid
> 	graph LR
> 	    A --> B
> 		B --> C
> 	~~~
> 	If needed, language-mermaid can be used to trigger the code highlighting instead.


Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work at the moment.  I assume that the email being generated by Mailmate would convert the mermaid syntax to html/svg so that the receiver's client can render it.

I like mermaid so I'd be happy to use it if it was available.

Malcolm