UMLET(1)

📦 version 15.1, in debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💅 UMLET — the manual, bestie edition 💅

okay so this is the manual page for umlet, section 1 of the General Commands Manual. yes, the whole thing. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, we're doing this.

✨ NAME ✨

umlet — a simple, text driven UML drawing tool 🎀

like. that's the whole vibe. text in, diagrams out. iconic.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

umlet [options] files...

that's it. options, then files, go off 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this manual page documents the umlet command briefly. short and sweet, we're not writing a novel here.

UMLet is a UML tool, and its whole mission is giving you a fast way of drawing UML diagrams. and the way it does that?? you modify UML elements with text input instead of pop-up dialogs. no cap. no clicking through seventeen little windows, just typing. it's giving productivity 💅

and here's the part that's genuinely lowkey genius: elements can be modified and used as templates. so you can easily tailor UMLet to your own modeling needs. build your little guys, reuse your little guys, customize everything. main character energy fr fr ✨

UMLet supports a whole variety of UML diagram types, and I mean a variety:

  • class diagrams
  • use case diagrams
  • sequence diagrams
  • state diagrams
  • deployment diagrams
  • activity diagrams
  • etc.

(the etc. is doing so much heavy lifting there but okay we love her 🫶)

⚠️ okay bestie, important boundaries moment: UMLet can only be used for drawing UML diagrams. that's it. it does not support code export, and it does not support the XMI format. she's an artist, not a compiler.

what she can do is export diagrams as images or PDF. so your work can leave the house and go be seen. slay 💖

👑 AUTHOR 👑

UMLet was written by M. Auer, T. Tschurtschenthaler and L. Meyer. legends, all three of them 🌈

This manual page was written by Benjamin Mesing <bensmail@gmx.net>, for the Debian project — though it may be used by others too. generous king 🫶

and that's the whole page, no notes. this was the umlet(1) manpage from the General Commands Manual, dated March 11, 2007 — old enough to be vintage but still serving 💜 bye bestie, go draw something 🦋✨

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