Ligature request: Mermaid's Entity Relationship Diagram
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Description
Would it be possible to add ligatures for Mermaid's ERD relationship notation?
As it is not a common use case, adding them as variants might be preferable.
Syntax specification:
- Either
|o||}o}|
- Always
-- - Either
o|||o{|{
Examples: }o--||, |o--|{
Possible problems may arise, as ||, |- and -| are already ligatures.
Hard-coding every possibility could possibly work.
Design:
- Either skewering them together on a line, and putting the characters closer
- Or resembling the actual mermaid output (see the arrows in the image below)
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the existing ligatures for ||, |-, and -|, then compare the requested Mermaid ERD combinations such as }o--|| and |o--|{ with the two proposed visual designs. Done means the supported combinations render consistently without breaking the existing ligatures, with the final design choice resolved.
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Assessment
- Domain
- design
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100