Markdown syntax differences to start a mermaid block

Question

It seems to me that git and off-line markdown editors support a quote-syntax to mark a Mermaid block. ``` markdown <my diagram> ``` It appears that Azure devops went their own way and mark the block with a colon syntax. ::: markdown <my diagram> :::

The different tools do not seem to support each other's variants; so I have to choose and always edit diagrams either in azure or an offline tool - I cannot mix them. My question is if someone can suggest a way to maybe allow both online and offline editing? It seems rather cumbersome to write a parser that reads my off-line edits and change them to colons before committing offline changes to the server, but that is about the only solution I can think of. Are there easier ways to deal with this?

Answer 1

I ended up "double blocking" the diagrams, like so:

::: mermaid
``` mermaid

sequenceDiagram
    participant Alice
    participant Bob
    Alice->>John: Hello John, how are you?
    loop HealthCheck
        John->>John: Fight against hypochondria
    end
    Note right of John: Rational thoughts <br/>prevail!
    John-->>Alice: Great!
    John->>Bob: How about you?
    Bob-->>John: Jolly good!
```
:::

Both Azure devops wiki and Obsidian seems to be working ok.