On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 08:21:30AM +0530, Rustom Mody wrote:
Thanks. This is attractive. I remember (vaguely) a 'live page' ie where one could enter (into the browser) changes to the diagrams code and see the results immediately. Is that page there? (Or am I mixing up with something else?)
You might also have been thinking of Luite Stegeman's "Wolfgang Lambda" project, which supports diagrams in this way (as well as many other things!). There was an early preview version of it up for a little while which a bunch of people saw, but it's not ready for release yet.
How does diagrams compare with graphviz? If this is an inappropriate (type-wrong?) question thats ok :-) Its just that when I last looked at graphviz I found the documentation somewhat impenetrable -- like much else in Hackage -- lots of types, no examples.
graphviz is a special-purpose tool for doing graph layout and visualization. diagrams is a general-purpose framework for drawing anything at all. As for documentation, you do realize that the graphviz package on Hackage is a set of bindings? So there's a lot of helpful documentation at http://www.graphviz.org/ . One of my goals with diagrams is to have excellent documentation, so if you find anything that is unclear or poorly documented, please file a bug report (http://code.google.com/p/diagrams/issues/list)! -Brent