tpl-plantuml.org

Template

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See the PlantUML website for syntax reference, and the Hitchhiker’s Guide to PlantUML for usage tips.

@startuml
rectangle A
rectangle B
rectangle C

A -> B: horizontal
B --> C: vertical
@enduml

A template for an org-mode file that includes PlantUML diagrams. An important part is not visible in the rendered file: the org-latex-pdf-process variable is customized as a buffer-local variable to include the -shell-escape flag. Otherwise, the export to Latex does not work (as of Emacs 30.0.50 and org-mode 9.7).

The variable is customized to a list of repeated commands to allow for Bibtex references, not really a part of this template but included anyway.

Clone the gist or view the raw file to see this part.

Also, this gist assumes that org-mode is enabled, and plantuml is one of the languages enabled for babel:

(use-package org
  :config
  (org-babel-do-load-languages
   'org-babel-load-languages
   '((plantuml . t))))