chart in blog post

Same as sphinx, you can make use of blockdiag as extension in tinkerer. That is, you can draw chart in your blog by blockdiag.`

Here is a quick setup procedure.

First install sphinxcontrib-blockdiag package.

$ sudo pip install sphinxcontrib-blockdiag

Then add ‘sphinxcontrib.blockdiag’ in the list of extensions in conf.py.

extensions = ['tinkerer.ext.blog', 'tinkerer.ext.disqus', 'sphinxcontrib.blockdiag']

You can specify font of your choice used in blockdiag. Search for path of your font.

$ fc-list

And specify font paht as value of blockdiag_fontpath.

blockdiag_fontpath = '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf'

Now it’s ready for usage.

For example,