Need some help with this please

[dnc77]

Hi There,

Thank you for providing the mermaid-filter. I think this is an awesome tool. I'm having trouble getting it to work though. I'm a techie but not a node person.

I got it installed and have managed to get a binary mermaid-filter which runs and accepts input. I also passed it through to pandoc as a filter with the -F parameter with no avail. I followed the instructions by Janik von Rotz at:

https://janikvonrotz.ch/2020/11/12/render-pdf-from-markdown-that-is-using-mermaid/ In summary, using the -F parameter to pass a markdown file.

In order to simplify things, I decided to pass to the mermaid-filter program a simple file as follows:

cat doc.mer | mermaid-filter

This reports an error. The document contains a mermaid diagram as follows:

sequenceDiagram
    Alice->>John: Hello John, how are you?
    John-->>Alice: Great!

Seems like mermaid-filter expects JSON but not sure what to give it. I have markdown files with diagrams and am using Ghostwriter and find myself having to use pandoc directly as it seems I'm not sure how to get Ghostwriter to support mermaid!

I am on Kubuntu. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Regards!!

Duncan