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FUNCTIONS DIAGRAM FUNCTIONS

diagrams.Goat

Converts ASCII art to an SVG diagram, returning a GoAT diagram object.

Syntax

diagrams.Goat INPUT

Returns

diagrams.goatDiagram

Useful in a code block render hook, the diagram.Goat function converts ASCII art to an SVG diagram, returning a GoAT diagram object with the following methods:

Inner
(template.HTML) Returns the SVG child elements without a wrapping svg element, allowing you to create your own wrapper.
Wrapped
(template.HTML) Returns the SVG child elements wrapped in an svg element.
Width
(int) Returns the width of the rendered diagram, in pixels.
Height
(int) Returns the height of the rendered diagram, in pixels.

GoAT Diagrams

Hugo natively supports GoAT diagrams with an embedded code block render hook.

This Markdown:

```goat
.---.     .-.       .-.       .-.     .---.
| A +--->| 1 |<--->| 2 |<--->| 3 |<---+ B |
'---'     '-'       '+'       '+'     '---'
```

Is rendered to:

<div class="goat svg-container">
  <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" font-family="Menlo,Lucida Console,monospace" viewBox="0 0 352 57">
    ...
  </svg>
</div>

Which appears in your browser as:

A123B

To customize rendering, override Hugo’s embedded code block render hook for GoAT diagrams.

Code block render hook

By way of example, let’s create a code block render hook to render GoAT diagrams as figure elements with an optional caption.

layouts/_default/_markup/render-codeblock-goat.html
{{ $caption := or .Attributes.caption "" }}
{{ $class := or .Attributes.class "diagram" }}
{{ $id := or .Attributes.id (printf "diagram-%d" (add 1 .Ordinal)) }}

<figure id="{{ $id }}">
  {{ with diagrams.Goat (trim .Inner "\n\r") }}
    <svg class="{{ $class }}" width="{{ .Width }}" height="{{ .Height }}"  xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1">
      {{ .Inner }}
    </svg>
  {{ end }}
  <figcaption>{{ $caption }}</figcaption>
</figure>

This Markdown:

content/example.md
```goat {class="foo" caption="Diagram 1: Example"}
.---.     .-.       .-.       .-.     .---.
| A +--->| 1 |<--->| 2 |<--->| 3 |<---+ B |
'---'     '-'       '+'       '+'     '---'
```

Is rendered to:

<figure id="diagram-1">
  <svg class="foo" width="272" height="57" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1">
    ...
  </svg>
  <figcaption>Diagram 1: Example</figcaption>
</figure>

Use CSS to style the SVG as needed:

svg.foo {
  font-family: "Segoe UI","Noto Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif
}

On this page

  • GoAT Diagrams
  • Code block render hook

In this section

  • diagrams.Goat
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