Some way to include files

[niosus]

Thanks for the awesome work! This tool is by far the best!

I don't know how to formulate this issue properly, but let's try.

I feel that it would be extremely beneficial to be able to have the diagram code organized in multiple files and being able to include (or import) them, e.g. #include "some_class.noml"

I understand this is a long reaching issue, I guess it depends on #29 or #26

What do you think of it? To me that is the only thing that really would make creating big diagrams much easier.

[skanaar]

Thank you 😄

Sound very interesting, and as you say it is probably relevant for a setup where you run nomnoml locally.
Since #29 was reported a rudimentary SVG support has been added which means that a local setup would be possible.

Perhaps it could accept #include <path> directives if run locally?

[niosus]

Yep, this is exactly something I would imagine.

I don't know if you share the view, but my usecase would be the following: I have a project and I sketch out uml before coding. I would like the people who will read my code to have easy access to the diagram that I have sketched. So it seems to me that the best way to represent it would be to have a folder with multiple files and a command or a link to paste in browser that would show them all as one diagram, so I could put this link to the readme.

What are your plans for running the nomnoml locally?

[skanaar]

I haven't had any plans in that direction really. But I would be happy to get some pull requests if you have the time.

But nothing is impossible, I have a small backlog of stuff that I really would like to implement.

[skanaar]

I've done some experiments in 0ec91f0 that you can review. I will probably put the command-line-stuff in a separate node-module.

[skanaar]

This feature is now officially published as part of version 0.1.0. 😄