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# LuaML: An experimental markup language and 'browser' for it
# snap.love: a graph drawing tool
Demo of a simple structured editor for formatted text atop an infinite 2D
surface that can be panned and zoomed.
Unlike [Graphviz](https://graphviz.org) and [PlantUML](https://plantuml.com),
this tool is for small graphs where you want complete control over layout.
Unlike PowerPoint or draw.io, this tool results generates text files that are
more amenable to version control. The catch: it's a lot more limited than all
these tools; all you can do so far is draw rectangles and edges between them.
For ease of implementation, LuaML documents are always legal Lua objects
rather than a first-class language like HTML. A simple example:
![drawing](assets/1.gif)
```
{ type='text', data={'hello, world!',} }
```
Text object data consists of an array of strings, one for each line. No
newlines at the moment. (Everything is subject to change.)
You can draw various shapes on the surface:
```
{type='line', data={0,0, 0,600}},
{type='line', data={0,0, 800,0}},
{type='text', data={'0'}, x=-20,y=-20},
{type='rectangle', x=50,y=50, w=20,h=80, r=1,g=0,b=0},
{type='text', data={'abc', 'def'}, x=150, y=50, w=50,h=50, fg={r=0,g=0.4, b=0.9}},
{type='circle', x=300,y=200, radius=40, r=1,g=0,b=1},
{type='arc', x=0,y=0, radius=50, angle1=0, angle2=math.pi*2/3},
{type='ellipse', x=100,y=100, radiusx=10, radiusy=50},
{type='bezier', data={25,25, 25,125, 75,25, 125,25}},
```
But most of the design effort so far has focused on the 3 text types:
* `text` for runs of text to be line-wrapped over the given `width`.
* `rows` and `cols`, the only hierarchical types, ways to compose `text` nodes
into various grid layouts.
Some more examples.
Adjust foreground/background color (akin to a `div` with inline `style`):
```
{ type='text', fg={r=1,g=0,b=0}, bg={r=1,g=1,b=0},
data={'hello, world!'}
}
```
Two-column text:
```
{ type='cols', data={
{type='text', data={'first column'}},
{type='text', data={'second column'}},
}}
```
A table with two rows and two columns:
```
{ type='cols', data={
{ type='rows', data={
{type='text', data={'abc'}},
{type='text', data={'def'}},
}},
{ type='rows', data={
{type='text', data={'ghi'}},
{type='text', data={'jkl'}},
}},
}}
```
(With the current design, cols of rows seem strictly superior to rows of cols.
Column boundaries line up consistently across rows.)
This is still quite incomplete. Come help figure out its future. Currently
supported "attributes":
* `fg`, `bg` for color (no `blink` tag yet)
* `margin` (used as `margin-left` or `margin-top` depending on whether the
parent node has `cols` or `rows` respectively)
* `width` in pixels (I'd like to add '%' units here.)
Since this is all Lua, unrecognized attributes are silently ignored. In the
app itself you'll see attributes like `name` and `doc`. (This is a nightmare
if you imagine this turning into some sort of long-lived standard with
versions and compatibility guarantees. I don't. I just want an app-internal
format for creating UIs with very little code.)
LuaML.love is a fork of [lines.love](http://akkartik.name/lines.html), an
editor for plain text where you can also seamlessly insert line drawings.
Designed above all to be easy to modify and give you early warning if your
modifications break something.
You can't change the styling. Unless you modify the code. But that's easy!
Read on.
## Getting started
@ -89,26 +17,26 @@ Install [LÖVE](https://love2d.org). It's just a 5MB download, open-source and
extremely well-behaved. I'll assume below that you can invoke it using the
`love` command, but that might vary depending on your OS.
Run this app from the terminal, [passing its directory to LÖVE](https://love2d.org/wiki/Getting_Started#Running_Games)
Run this app from the terminal, [passing its directory to LÖVE](https://love2d.org/wiki/Getting_Started#Running_Games).
You'll see a page that's currently hard-coded in the app.
You'll see a single box on screen. Drag the surface or press arrow keys to pan
around. Try dragging the border of the box. You'll see an edge stick out.
Release the mouse button, and a new box (node) will pop out at the other end
of the edge. Try dragging the top-left bar for each box. They move relative to
each other. Try typing inside. The text wraps within and the box grows taller
to accomodate it. Try dragging the parallel lines to the right of a box. The
width of the box changes.
![initial view](assets/1.png)
All text is currently editable. There's a table on the right that will grow
and shrink as you add and delete text.
Changes you make are currently not saved. This is just a demo.
To pan, drag the surface around. To increase/decrease zoom, press `ctrl+=`,
`ctrl+-` respectively. To reset zoom press `ctrl+0`.
Try quitting and restarting. Your changes will still be present. By default,
snap.love writes to a file called `graph` in a directory specific to this app
(https://love2d.org/wiki/love.filesystem.getSourceBaseDirectory). To switch to
a different file, drop it on the snap.love window. You can also pass in a
filename when starting the app from the terminal.
## Hacking
To edit formatting you'll need to modify the code for the app. To do
this live without restarting the app each time, download [the driver
app](https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/driver.love). Here's an example session
using a fork of this repo:
To make changes to this app without restarting the app each time, download
[the driver app](https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/driver.love). Example session:
![making changes without restarting the app](assets/2.gif)
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## Keyboard shortcuts
While editing text:
While editing within a node:
* `ctrl+f` to find patterns within a file
* `ctrl+c` to copy, `ctrl+x` to cut, `ctrl+v` to paste
* `ctrl+z` to undo, `ctrl+y` to redo
@ -165,17 +93,14 @@ found anything amiss: http://akkartik.name/contact
This repo is a fork of [lines.love](http://akkartik.name/lines.html), an
editor for plain text where you can also seamlessly insert line drawings.
Its immediate upstream is [the template repo for freewheeling apps](https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/template-live-editor).
Updates to it can be downloaded from the following mirrors:
Its immediate upstream is [luaML.love](https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/luaML.love),
a box model for a Lua-based markup language that models an infinite pannable,
zoomable 2D surface. Updates to it can be downloaded from:
* https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/luaML.love
* https://codeberg.org/akkartik/luaML.love
* https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/snap.love
Further forks are encouraged. If you show me your fork, I'll link to it here.
* https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/driver.love - the driver app for modifying
freewheeling apps without restarting them.
## Feedback
[Most appreciated.](http://akkartik.name/contact)

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