# Plantuml support

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/plantuml-support/124595
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 1, 2019, 10:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plantuml-support/124595 "2019-08-01T10:29:42Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2019, 2:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plantuml-support/124595/2 "2019-08-02T02:40:00Z")

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I think some people experimented with that … what we have already is support for graphviz (which is way more powerful) and mermaid.

> [@Mermaid JS Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mermaid-js-plugin/88696):
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> Repo: [GitHub - unfoldingWord/discourse-mermaid: Adds the Mermaid JS library to discourse](https://github.com/unfoldingWord-dev/discourse-mermaid)Overview This plugin adds the [Mermaid JS](https://mermaidjs.github.io/) library to Discourse so that posts can make use of its features. It turns this: [mermaid] gantt title A Gantt Diagram dateFormat YYYY-MM-DD section Section A task :a1, 2014-01-01, 30d Another task :after a1 , 20d section Another Task in sec :2014-01-12 , 12d another task : 24d [/mermaid] into this:

> [@Discourse Graphviz](https://meta.discourse.org/t/graphviz-plugin/97554):
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> discourse2Summary Discourse Graphviz provides the ability to add graphs to posts using the DOT language.open_bookInstall Guide This plugin is bundled with Discourse core. There is no need to install the plugin separately. Features This plugin uses the [Viz.js](https://github.com/mdaines/viz.js) library to render graphs. To embed a graph use [graphviz] [/graphviz] bbcode. Optionally you can define layout engine attributes: [graphviz engine=neato]. If engine is not defined, it defaults to the dot engine…

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