Mscgen - Text markup language

Mscgen is a text markup language created in 2016.

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Tags: text markup language
Early development of Mscgen happened in https://code.google.com/archive/p/mscgen/issues
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Mscgen
See also: (1 related languages) DOT

Example from the web:

# MSC for some fictional process
msc {
  hscale = "2";

  a,b,c;

  a->b [ label = "ab()" ] ;
  b->c [ label = "bc(TRUE)"];
  c=>c [ label = "process(1)" ];
  c=>c [ label = "process(2)" ];
  ...;
  c=>c [ label = "process(n)" ];
  c=>c [ label = "process(END)" ];
  a<<=c [ label = "callback()"];
  ---  [ label = "If more to run", ID="*" ];
  a->a [ label = "next()"];
  a->c [ label = "ac1()\nac2()"];
  b<-c [ label = "cb(TRUE)"];
  b->b [ label = "stalled(...)"];
  a<-b [ label = "ab() = FALSE"];
}

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Booleans	✓		TRUE FALSE