ESUG 2025 ShowUs: Micromaid: A simple Mermaid-like chart generator for Pharo PDF: https://archive.esug.org/ESUG2025/showus/showus-4-Oda-MicroMaid.pdf

1. Micromaid
Tomohiro Oda
esug2025 @ Gdansk, Poland

2. What is Micromaid?
● a very small subset of the Mermaid notation
○ https://mermaid.live/
○ a simple and intuitive syntax for diagrams and charts
○ lightweight process to generate a diagram
○ AI agents use Mermaid to generate diagrams
○ best with Markdown
● a frontend of Roassal3
○ proven rendering quality

3. demo - flowchart of REPL

4. Resources and Future Plan
● Micromaid is an OSS
○ GitHub https://github.com/tomooda/Micromaid/
○ MIT License
● Still in a verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry early stage
○ needs contributions from YOU!
○ especially, layouting algorithms