Changelog

[1.7.0] - 2024-12-14

Add data-compartment attribute to SVG output for identifying the compartment index when building interactivity.

[1.6.3] - 2024-12-01

Fix bug when running nomnoml-cli with input files in the same directory.

[1.6.2] - 2023-06-26

Fix bug where hash character was interpreted as a directive in the middle of a line

[1.6.1] - 2023-05-21

Restore parser behavior where comments are only supported at the start of a line

[1.6.0] - 2023-05-16

Rewritten parser
Chain multiple associations on a single line
Supply id separately from node display name
Removed Weightless Edge feature "[a] _ [b]"

[1.5.3] - 2022-12-19

Fix a bug with unsupported variables names in some runtimes
upgrade dependencies

[1.5.2] - 2022-06-02

Fix a bug in SVG rendering of association diamonds

[1.5.1] - 2022-04-13

Fix a bug where SVGs did not include their source in the desc tag
Fix a bug where table nodes produced invalid SVG

[1.5.0] - 2022-04-11

SVG output is generated with a proper element hierarchy

[1.4.0] - 2021-05-12

ball and socket connections for expressing required and provided interfaces

[1.3.1] - 2020-11-05

fix bug where bundles were incompatible with Node 12

[1.3.0] - 2020-11-04

More options to style text
Style node titles with title=bold,italic,left
Style node bodys with body=bold,italic,left
Nicer database graphics
More descriptive compilation errors
Switch to Graphre (a forked version of Dagre)
Support Webpack

Webapp

Folders in file system view
Always as for filename when saving a #view url graph
Improved file system view

[1.2.0] - 2020-10-07

Fixed layout bug when using HIDDEN nodes
Fixed bug where SVG attributes were not properly escaped
New association type _> that creates a shorter (weightless) edge
New directive #gravity: 0 that makes every association weightless
Type definitions included (typescript .d file)
Drop ES3 support and target ES5 explicitly

[1.1.1] - 2020-09-21

Fix bug when setting background color with #background:

[1.1.0] - 2020-09-14

Node name is attached to SVG shapes with a data-name attribute. Can be used for interactive diagrams.

[1.0.1] - 2020-09-11

Tweaked the text measurement heuristic for better handling of long texts.

[1.0.0] - 2020-09-11

Improved text measurement in SVG documents

better heuristic for text width when no rendering context is available
better text measurement when rendering context is available

[0.10.0] - 2020-08-31

New features

Table is a new classifier type that displays its compartments in a uniform grid. Set the first row-break with a double pipe ||.
Non-boxy shapes are laid out properly. Ellipses, rhombuses, and cylinders (, , and ) no longer intersect awkwardly with the arrows.

Bug fixes

fixed bug where SVG did not support bold text
fixed bug where SVG did not track lineWidth in push/pop of graphic state

[0.9.0] - 2020-08-26

fixed bug where labels could extend outside bounding box

[0.8.0] - 2020-07-09

#background directive to specify background color

[0.7.3] - 2020-07-08

fixed incomplete rendering when edges extended outside bounding box

[0.7.2] - 2020-05-14

upgraded dependencies

[0.7.1] - 2020-04-26

fixed bug in compileFile()

[0.7.0] - 2020-04-26

expose compileFile to allow usage in a NodeJS environment

[0.6.2] - 2019-10-27

fix bug where SVG output did not get the correct text color

[0.6.1] - 2019-07-22

upgrade Lodash to fix a security vulnerability

[0.6.0] - 2019-05-25

fixed crash when two relations had the same start and end

[0.5.0] - 2019-05-01

improved text centering in SVG output

[0.4.0] - 2019-04-26

Library

dagre library upgraded to 0.8.4
version published as a nomnoml.version property

www.nomnoml.com

ie/edge support for downloading png images
when new code results in parsing error, render last successful code.

Known regressions

self referential associations are broken