This manual is for Msc-generator (version v4.4.0, 3 October 2014), a tool to draw message sequence charts from textual description.
Msc-generator heavily borrows in concept from the 0.8 version of Michael C McTernan’s mscgen. However, it has been completely rewritten from scratch and has a much more extensive (and only partially backwards compatible) language. The command-line interface is fully backwards compatible with mscgen, which enables using Msc-generator’s commandline tool everywhere where you can use mscgen, but with the richer syntax. This includes the many tools integrated with mscgen, such as Doxygen, Sphinx and Msctexen. See the official mscgen site.
Since version 2.2 Msc-generator also contains a Windows GUI implementing signalling charts as OLE embedded objects. This allows inclusion of both chart source and the rendered graphics together in a Word or Powerpoint document.
Copyright © 2008-2014 Zoltan Turanyi
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
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