How and where diagrams can be written


Each diagram description begins with the keyword
@startuml
then ends with the keyword
@enduml
.
You can refer to
the PlantUML Language Reference Guide.
Those descriptions may be included into :
Of course, if you use Html, LaTeX, APT or Java/C/C++ files, you should put diagram descriptions into comments.
File naming



By default,
.png
file have the same name as the source file used to generated them (only the extension changes).
An automatic sequence is added if a source file contains several instances of
@startXXX
.
It is possible to use a different file name for the generated file. For example:
@startuml image.png
Alice->Bob: Authentication Request
Bob-->Alice: Authentication Response
@enduml
In this example, the
.png
file will be named
image.png
.
(Please note that you should not use this feature with
Word integration.)