Checklist

• Zettlr does not possess this feature (if it does, but the feature doesn't work out for you, propose an enhancement instead.)
• Zettlr's current features cannot be used to approximate this behaviour (otherwise, propose an enhancement instead.)
• I have searched the documentation to make sure I did not overlook it.
• I have searched both open and closed issues to see if someone has already proposed this.

Feature Proposal

Zettlr has mermaid for rendering diagrams. But mermaid is very streamlined, hence doesn't offer much flexibility in the layout of things it renders.

Pikchr (pronounced "picture") is a PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation. Pikchr is designed to be embedded in fenced code blocks of Markdown or similar mechanisms of other documentation markup languages.
https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/homepage.md

Creates diagrams from textual descriptions!
https://kroki.io/

Kroki provides a unified API with support for
BlockDiag (BlockDiag, SeqDiag, ActDiag, NwDiag, PacketDiag, RackDiag), BPMN, Bytefield, C4 (with PlantUML), D2, DBML, Ditaa, Erd, Excalidraw, GraphViz, Mermaid, Nomnoml, Pikchr, PlantUML, Structurizr, SvgBob, TikZ, UMLet, Vega, Vega-Lite, WaveDrom, WireViz... and more to come!

Example Workflow

Drawing charts (hybrid of flowchart, and block/sequence diagram) which require arrows going perpendicular between different nodes.

• See here: perpendicular connections between parallel flowchart subgraphs mermaid-js/mermaid#4354

Caveats

I don't think there would be any caveats other than the bare technical implementations.

Based on what it kroki says about "provides a unified API with support for ...", it will only increase the availability of other features.

Do you wish to attempt implementing this yourself?

No

Platforms

• Windows
• macOS
• Linux

Additional Information

Pasting image links from that issue over here: