nomnoml Pack User Guide

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nomnoml Pack User Guide

Language reference

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nomnoml⁠

is a tool for drawing UML diagrams based on a simple syntax, created by

Daniel Kallin⁠

and open sourced on

GitHub⁠

. This Pack uses the nomnoml library to allow you to generate diagrams using it’s syntax and features directly within your Coda docs.

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Nomnoml A tool for drawing diagrams based on syntax. Supercharge your boxes and arrows. nomnoml.com⁠

Install

Click the button below or type /nomnoml in any doc.

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Install Pack

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Demo

Handwritten

You can write your markup by hand and use the Diagram formula to render it.

Pirate life

Markup

Edit the text and watch the diagram below change.

[<start>start] -> [<state>plunder] -> [<choice>more loot] -> [start]

[more loot] no ->[<end>e]

[Pirate|

[beard]--[parrot]

[beard]-:>[foul mouth]

]

[<table>mischief| bawl | sing || yell | drink ]

[<abstract>Marauder]<:--[Pirate]

[Pirate] - 0..7[mischief]

[<actor id=sailor>Jolly;Sailor]

[sailor]->[Pirate]

[sailor]->[rum]

[Pirate]-> *[rum|tastiness: Int|swig()]

Diagram

1 of 1

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Generated from a table

If you have a table with a a parent-child relationship you can use the GenerateMarkup formula to generate nomnoml markup from that table, which can then be passed to the Diagram formula to render it.

Items

Items

Name

Parent

There are no rows in this table

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Generated markup

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[A] [A] -> [B] [A] -> [C] [B] -> [D] [D] -> [E] [D] -> [F]

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Resulting diagram

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Install

Demo

Handwritten

Generated from a table

Items

Generated markup

Resulting diagram

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) instead.