Moin, having written a <graph>-plugin for Mediawiki, I would like to announce it here. It takes textual graph descriptions between <graph></graph> like this: For instance this input: <graph> [ Bonn ] -> [ Berlin ] [ Berlin -> [ Frankfurt ] { border: 1px dotted black; } [ Frankfurt ] -> [ Dresden ] [ Berlin ] -> [ Potsdam ] [ Potsdam ] => [ Cottbus ] </graph> Would be rendered in ASCII as (use monospaced font for viewing :o) +------+ +--------+ ............. +---------+ | Bonn | --> | Berlin | --> : Frankfurt : --> | Dresden | +------+ +--------+ ............. +---------+ | | v +---------+ +---------+ | Potsdam | ==> | Cottbus | +---------+ +---------+ HTML looks similiar, but more pretty (well, maybe :) All the gory details, the patch, software, testcases, screenshots etc can be found at: http://bloodgate.com/perl/graph/ This is a proof-of-concept - e.g. it is likely not to work #:o)= It is also still very early pre-alpha. Especially the Graph.php is very rough - I never did read nor write PHP code before - but it looks suspiciously like Perl and seems to work, so I am not complaining :) However, before I wander off over the proverbial big cliff, I'd rather get some corrections. Read: please tell me what you think about it, whether this is going to be usefull/work/bring world-peace etc. There are quite a few thing that are simple not implemented yet - I do have plans to implement them in the near future, though :) However, most of the work remains in the external parser/renderer. My main interest in this area lies in _easily_ documentating network plans, flow charts, schematics and other things in that area. IMHO having such a feature in a wiki would be very usefull. Best wishes, Tels PS: Special thanx go to Omega for beta testing! -- Signed on Wed Jan 12 16:43:06 2005 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. Marketing lesson #1: The synergy of the result driven leverage can *never* incentivize a paradigm shift. -- Walterk (124748) on 2004-01-16 at /.