Create Atom package for rendering

sverweij / mscgen_js

text => sequence charts

https://mscgen.js.org

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Create Atom package for rendering #215

Closed nicktimko closed 9 years ago

nicktimko commented 9 years ago

It would be neat to have rendering with live-update inside Atom, a la the Markdown Preview. It works great in the browser, but then to save the figure I end up copy-pasting into my text editor.

Fantastic tool, btw.

sverweij commented 9 years ago

Yes, that would be awesome !

I have no idea what I'm getting into, though, so timelines are :foggy: at best (and help is welcome).

Thanks for the kind words :blush:

sverweij commented 9 years ago

Dabbled in atom dev this weekend:

Prerequisite for a decent previewer is language support.
Atom ~~doesn't~~ didn't have MscGen language support.
It now does, see
- package language-mscgen on atom.io
- github repo: https://github.com/sverweij/atom-language-mscgen

Previewer is doable, but definitely not a 1 storypoint story :eyes:

sverweij commented 9 years ago

@nicktimko something like this?

It's working, but needs polishing before it can be published to atom.io.
github repo: https://github.com/sverweij/atom-mscgen-preview

preview-mscgen

nicktimko commented 9 years ago

That is kick ass. Excellent work!

sverweij commented 9 years ago

Polishing done, so

I just published the ("minimal viable") mscgen-preview package to atom.io
Should be installable from within atom.
Includes the syntax highlighting from language-mscgen (see above).
Preview with ctrl-shift-G (MscGen ;-) ) in .mscgen, .mscin, .msc, .xu and *.msgenny

Issues are welcome in the repo: https://github.com/sverweij/atom-mscgen-preview/issues

Enjoy!