+[[!template id=plugin name=mscgen author="[[users/Tjgolubi]]"]]
[[!tag type/widget]]
-This plugin provides the mscgen [[ikiwiki/directive]].
+## NAME
+
+IkiWiki::Plugin::mscgen - embed message sequence chart
+
+## SYNOPSIS
+
+In the ikiwiki setup file, enable this plugin by adding it to the list of active plugins.
+
+ add_plugins:
+ - mscgen
+
+## DESCRIPTION
+
+This plugin provides the msc [[ikiwiki/directive]].
This directive allows embedding [mscgen](http://www.mcternan.me.uk/mscgen/)
-message sequence chart graphs in a page.
+message sequence chart graphs in an ikiwiki page.
-Here's an mscgen source example.
+Here's an example that shows how an mscgen message sequence chart is embedded into an ikiwiki page.
\[[!msc src="""
arcgradient = 8;
|||;
"""]]
-And here's the resulting graph.
+Security implications: to be determined.
-[[!msc src=<<"""
- arcgradient = 8;
+This plugin borrows heavily from the [[graphviz|plugins/graphviz]] plugin written by [[JoshTriplett]].
- a [label="Client"],b [label="Server"];
+## PREREQUISITES
+ IkiWiki
+ mscgen
+ Digest::SHA
- a=>b [label="data1"];
- a-xb [label="data2"];
- a=>b [label="data3"];
- a<=b [label="ack1, nack2"];
- a=>b [label="data2", arcskip="1"];
- |||;
- a<=b [label="ack3"];
- |||;
-"""]]
+## DOWNLOAD
-Security implications: to be determined.
+* browse at GitHub: <http://github.com/tjgolubi/ikiwiki.mscgen>
+* repo at git://github.com/tjgolubi/ikiwiki.mscgen.git
-This plugin uses the [[!cpan Digest::SHA]] perl module.
-This plugin borrows heavily from the [[graphviz|plugins/graphviz]] plugin written by [[JoshTriplett]].