sphinxcontrib-mermaid 0.1

Mermaid diagrams in yours Sphinx powered docs

sphinxcontrib-mermaid
=====================

This extension allows you to embed `Mermaid <http://knsv.github.io/mermaid/>`_ graphs in your documents, including general flowcharts, sequence and gantt diagrams.

It adds a directive to embed mermaid markup. For example::

.. mermaid::

sequenceDiagram
participant Alice
participant Bob
Alice->John: Hello John, how are you?
loop Healthcheck
John->John: Fight against hypochondria
end
Note right of John: Rational thoughts <br/>prevail...
John-->Alice: Great!
John->Bob: How about you?
Bob-->John: Jolly good!

The code will be rendered to a PNG (default) or SVG image (experimental)
(see :confval:`mermaid_output_format`) using `mermaid-cli <http://knsv.github.io/mermaid/#mermaid-cli>`_.

You can also embed external mermaid files, by giving the file name as an
argument to the directive and no additional content::

.. mermaid:: path/to/mermaid-gantt-code.mmd

As for all file references in Sphinx, if the filename is absolute, it is
taken as relative to the source directory.

Installation
------------

You can install it using pip

::

pip install sphinxcontrib-mermaid

Then add ``sphinxcontrib.mermaid`` in ``extensions`` list of your projec't ``conf.py``::

extensions = [
...,
'sphinxcontrib.mermaid'
]


Directive options
------------------

``alt``: determines the image's alternate text for HTML output. If not given, the alternate text defaults to the mermaid code.

``align``: determines the image's position. Valid options are ``'left'``, ``'center'``, ``'right'``

``caption``: can be used to give a caption to the diagram.


Config values
-------------


.. confval:: mermaid_cmd

The command name with which to invoke ``mermaid-cli`` program. The default is ``'mermaid'``; you may need to set this to a full path if it's not in the executable
search path.

.. confval:: mermaid_phantom_path

The mermaid command requires PhantomJS (version ^1.9.0) to be installed and available in your $PATH, or you can specify it's location with in this config variable.

.. confval:: mermaid_output_format

The output format for Mermaid when building HTML files. This must be either
``'png'`` or ``'svg'``; the default is ``'png'``. Note ``'svg'`` support is very experimental in mermaid.


.. confval:: mermaid_sequence_config

Allows overriding the sequence diagram configuration. It could be useful to increase the width between actors. It **should be a normal python dictionary**
Check options in the `documentation <http://knsv.github.io/mermaid/#sequence-diagram-configuration>`_

.. confval:: mermaid_verbose

Use the verbose mode when call mermaid-cli, and show its output in the building
process.


Acknowledge
-----------

Most of the code