Make link text look like it is on the line

[chrisalley]

Could the alternative (or replacement) link text syntax be added?

A-->|Link text|B becomes A--Link Text-->B

And similarly:

A---|Link text|B becomes A--Link Text--B

The reason being that the suggested syntax looks more like it is sitting on the line.

[knsv]

Again a good suggestion. I link things that makes the graphs more readable. The markdowish approach suggests graphs should be as readable as possible in code without rendering the diagram also.

Will add this one to the list.

Will not do this as a patch release though as this might break backwards compatibility but will add it in a bigger release. Best would be to support both, will see how messy the grammar becomes. Right now there is other activities for example syntax for dotted lines. Will wait until those thing are completed before getting onto this one.

Also... we should have some sort of versioning on the grammar itself and a way of communicating when syntax changes

[knsv]

I have done some work on this but with small adjustment, a leading space for the text in the links as below:

A---|Link text|B 

becomes

 A-- Link Text --B

[chrisalley]

Looks good.

[badbye]

Seems that A-->|Link text|B generate a line instead of a arrow?
Then how to generate a arrow with a link text?

[knsv]

Hello!

The code below, should generate an arrow:

A-->|Link text|B

This code should generate a line:

A---|Link text|B

When I test this I see the expected behaviour. Can you help me reproduce your problem?

[knsv]

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