Near keyword does not work

[pleshevskiy]

Seems like near keyword in text block does not work. And we have to reorder block manually, but reordering doesn't work too in complex examples. See below.

Simple

If we want to render text near to a block or group

a; b; c; d;

foo: |txt
bar biz baz
| {
  near: b
}

Expected

[a] [b] [c] [d]
   ↑ or↑
   `foo`

Actual

Workaround

We can reorder the text block and now it works as expected without near keyword.

a; b;

foo: |txt
bar biz baz
|

c; d;

Complex

if we want to render text near to a connected block or group

a -> e; b -> f;

foo: |txt
bar biz baz
| {
  near: b
}

c -> g; d -> h;

Expected

   `foo`
   ↓ or↓
[a] [b] [c] [d]
 ↓   ↓   ↓   ↓
[e] [f] [g] [h]

Actual

Misc

Tested on d2 versions 0.0.13 and latest e6c7d066164040098d294c00779a2248c402c864

[alixander]

it does not, sorry for the lack of clarity. i have it in the next release of d2-docs to document that:

https://github.com/terrastruct/d2-docs/pull/15/files#diff-d23c28129c5e819c092f20bfcbf291203169d455eabed54a3498779040e06b20R123

we'll add support for it probably in the release after

[murphyke]

Also, it seems near only "works" with top-level shapes. Otherwise, it gives a "failed to recompile" error and a panic dump, for example:

dog.flea
comment: |md
    parasite
| {
    near: dog.flea
}

[alixander]

documented