For the figures including TeX' annotation, both latexdraw and ipe, the later especially after the discovery of two tutorial videos (Introduction to Ipe drawing editor - Tools, Properties, & Snapping and How to create these figures in Ipe drawing editor). Both programs may be used either in Linux, Mac, Windows. For ipe, I like that the underlying LaTeX source code is embedded in the .pdf, so there is a way to... Source: over 1 year ago

If you are looking for application, then take a look at LaTexDraw. Source: over 1 year ago

Pikchr https://pikchr.org/home/pikchrshow is the other general purpose one and older than d2. It is "Source-Code License: 0-clause BSD" as it says on the page. Someone made it into wasm and put playground for pikchr here https://www.jakethaw.com/pikchr_webassembly_demo/ Can also try pikchr online here on https://kroki.io/#try which is hosting many other text to diagram tools as well. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

If you don't mind my asking, what aspects of "acceptable layout" is usually the first to get busted? I'm extremely excited about using WireViz[1] to automate wiring harness diagram creation, and if I can, I'd like to know the speedbumps before I hit them. I'm thinkin generous linking between diagrams will be one path. [1] Project:: https://github.com/wireviz/WireViz [select Diagram>WireViz]. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

The SVG output is embedded into the PDF file. https://kroki.io/examples.html#mind-map Kroki has other text-based formats for flow charts, Gantt charts, UML diagrams, packet diagrams, network diagrams, word clouds, etc. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

My cross-platform desktop text editor, KeenWrite, allows users to define variables in an external YAML file. The editor calls out to Kroki[1] to convert text-based diagrams to SVG. The diagrams can reference variables and are rendered using EchoSVG[2]. KeenWrite[3] can produce PDF documentation from Markdown documents that has PlantUML diagrams with elements stored in an external, machine-readable file. Here are... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

Did you try to use https://kroki.io/ as renderer instead? - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago