Old MUDs come to mind, and seems like a modern take on their automappers would be something like Mudlet's https://wiki.mudlet.org/w/Manual:Mapper, which has a verbose but human readable XML format?
Thanks! Yeah a tool like that is similar to what I'm after. As far as mermaid goes, it lets you specify the direction of how the node layout is created, but does not allow you to specify one node will always be a cardinal direction relative to another node.
Old MUDs come to mind, and seems like a modern take on their automappers would be something like Mudlet's https://wiki.mudlet.org/w/Manual:Mapper, which has a verbose but human readable XML format?
https://wiki.mudlet.org/w/Manual:Mapper https://forums.mudlet.org/viewtopic.php?t=22957
Not quite as terse as your Mermaid-like syntax, unfortunately.
Also, in Mermaid, can't you specify left/right top/bottom, etc.? https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/flowchart.html#direction-in-su...
Thanks! Yeah a tool like that is similar to what I'm after. As far as mermaid goes, it lets you specify the direction of how the node layout is created, but does not allow you to specify one node will always be a cardinal direction relative to another node.