support fontawesome in mermaid

[copdips]

Description

Hello,

The official mermaid.js.org supports fontawesome, but it seems that not for superfence within mkdocs-mateial. It's ok for unicode emoji only for the moment.

Could you please add the support for fontawesome ? Thanks.

Benefits

Having beautiful fontawesome in mermaid charts.

Solution Idea

No response

[facelessuser]

I do not provide any official mermaid support. I provide some general guidance of how one can get it to run, more specifically how I've been able to get it running, but Pymdown Extensions does not provide mermaid support out of the box, and we don't provide any styling support at all. Pymdown Extensions never attaches styling, that is something for your theme to provide. At most we provide some basic examples of styling

[copdips]

Thanks for your prompt response. I'm not a expert in this domain, if I understand well, even though from mkdocs-material doc:

it says that the mermaid support is done by this function: https://github.com/facelessuser/pymdown-extensions/blob/899e811fa4e562b771a97073ad075c17d79851e8/pymdownx/superfences.py#L133-L147

the real implementation is still in mkdocs-material ?

[facelessuser]

So, let me explain, all that function does is preserve the code without letting the Markdown parser parse it as Markdown. It's a custom fence that will store the content in a code block which will later be processed by Material when it runs Mermaid on it. We do not transform the code into mermaid diagrams, we preserve the code, that's all.

[copdips]

Ok I understand better now, if fontawesome doesn't render in mkdocs-material, it might be something wrong in the mermaid.js imported in mkdocs-material, maybe a new version of this js could fix the issue. Nevertheless, nothing with pymdown. Thanks a lot for your time for the explanation. I close this issue.