[MlMt] Two questions

[Bullard, Jeff]

Jeff,

That did the trick! Works perfectly now. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

—Jeff
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On Dec 21, 2024, at 1:44 PM, Jeff Bartig <jeff at bartig.net> wrote:


Hello Jeff, Thank you for bringing this to my attention that mailmate now supports mermaid diagrams. This is going to be useful. https: //updates. mailmate-app. com/release_notes_archive/MailMate_r6065. html Searching the release notes for "mermaid",
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Hello Jeff,

Thank you for bringing this to my attention that mailmate now supports mermaid diagrams.  This is going to be useful.

https://updates.mailmate-app.com/release_notes_archive/MailMate_r6065.html<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://updates.mailmate-app.com/release_notes_archive/MailMate_r6065.html__;!!KwNVnqRv!B5PVEQW7SBrpYOipUP6iVUsACrXsbVm2-2VOMKvFKatVOmPUNrdjG7O-YXhM4K84WfUx5ujIGxJbS30$>

Searching the release notes for "mermaid", I found that this feature was added in version 5918, with the following in the release notes:

New: Capable of rendering diagrams using Mermaid. Use the language identifier mermaid (or diagram) in a fenced code block. Since there’s no GUI setting yet, you also need to enable the following hidden preference:
defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmBundleCommandForDiagramGeneration -string "BCA016BB-96DF-4EBB-8DD6-4BE467FCA194"

Even in version 6065 I'm not finding any setting in mailmate to enable mermaid.  As soon as I issued the suggested 'defaults' command at a terminal shell prompt, the mermaid feature started working for me.

Jeff

On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 10:48 PM Jeff Bullard via mailmate <mailmate at lists.freron.com<mailto:mailmate at lists.freron.com>> wrote:

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:

∫xdx=12x 2+C\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)


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.

Documentation or How-To’s for bundles

For example, I use Fantastical and so I checked the Fantastical item under Settings:Bundles. But I’m not exactly sure what this enables me to do. If I select an email and then run the Fantastical:Create Event command under the Commands menu, it definitely creates a new event in Fantastical, and the event has the title of the message subject, and a date/time of when the message was received. That makes me wonder what use case I could have for that. I can go to the GitHub page for the bundle but the documentation is pretty sparse.

—Jeff

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Jeff Bartig
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