diff --git a/lib/phantomscript.js b/lib/phantomscript.js
index b552595d6..1e0edf1f0 100644
--- a/lib/phantomscript.js
+++ b/lib/phantomscript.js
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ function executeInPage(data) {
   var xmlSerializer = new XMLSerializer()
     , contents = data.contents
     , sequenceConfig = JSON.stringify(data.sequenceConfig)
-    , ganttConfig = JSON.stringify(data.ganttConfig).replace(/"(function.*)}"/, "$1")
+    , ganttConfig = JSON.stringify(data.ganttConfig).replace(/"(function.*})"/, "$1")
     , toRemove
     , el
     , elContent
@@ -222,35 +222,28 @@ function executeInPage(data) {
     , height
     , confWidth = data.confWidth
   
-  toRemove = document.getElementsByClassName('mermaid')
+  var toRemove = document.getElementsByClassName('mermaid')
   if (toRemove && toRemove.length) {
     for (var i = 0, len = toRemove.length; i < len; i++) {
       toRemove[i].parentNode.removeChild(toRemove[i])
     }
   }
 
-  el = document.createElement("div")
+  var el = document.createElement("div")
   el.className = 'mermaid'
-  elContent = document.createTextNode(contents)
-  el.appendChild(elContent)
-  //el.innerText = '<b>hello</b>\uD800' //contents;
-  
+  el.appendChild(document.createTextNode(contents))
   document.body.appendChild(el)
   
   var config = {
-    sequenceDiagram: sequenceConfig,
+    sequenceDiagram: JSON.parse(sequenceConfig),
     flowchart: {useMaxWidth: false},
     logLevel: 1
   };
   
   mermaid.initialize(config);
   
-  //console.log('after initialize',sequenceConfig);
-
-  sc = document.createElement("script")
-  scContent = document.createTextNode('mermaid.ganttConfig = ' + ganttConfig + ';')
-  sc.appendChild(scContent)
-
+  var sc = document.createElement("script")
+  sc.appendChild(document.createTextNode('mermaid.ganttConfig = ' + ganttConfig + ';'))
   document.body.appendChild(sc)
 
   mermaid.init();
diff --git a/src/diagrams/sequenceDiagram/sequenceRenderer.js b/src/diagrams/sequenceDiagram/sequenceRenderer.js
index 3f2afa0ea..0253412d9 100644
--- a/src/diagrams/sequenceDiagram/sequenceRenderer.js
+++ b/src/diagrams/sequenceDiagram/sequenceRenderer.js
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ var conf = {
     // width of activation box
     activationWidth:10,
 
-    //text placement as: tspan | fo | <else> only text as before 
-    textPlacement: 'fo', 
+    //text placement as: tspan | fo | old only text as before 
+    textPlacement: 'tspan', 
 };
 
 exports.bounds = {
diff --git a/src/diagrams/sequenceDiagram/svgDraw.js b/src/diagrams/sequenceDiagram/svgDraw.js
index 1bdb7106e..defd454f1 100644
--- a/src/diagrams/sequenceDiagram/svgDraw.js
+++ b/src/diagrams/sequenceDiagram/svgDraw.js
@@ -326,6 +326,6 @@ var _drawTextCandidateFunc = (function() {
 
     return function(conf) {
       return conf.textPlacement==='fo' ? byFo : (
-          conf.textPlacement==='tspan' ? byTspan : byText);
+          conf.textPlacement==='old' ? byText: byTspan);
     };
 })();
diff --git a/src/logger.js b/src/logger.js
index 32c7fb9b3..c26052cfa 100644
--- a/src/logger.js
+++ b/src/logger.js
@@ -75,8 +75,7 @@ function Log(level) {
                     args.unshift('[' + formatTime(new Date()) + '] ');
                     console.log.apply(console, args.map(function(a){
                         if (typeof a === "object") {
-                          if (a.stack !== undefined) { return a.stack; }
-                          return JSON.stringify(a, null, 2);
+                          return a.toString() + JSON.stringify(a, null, 2);
                         }
                         return a;
                     }));
diff --git a/test/cli_test-output.js b/test/cli_test-output.js
index 775193e27..b85355655 100644
--- a/test/cli_test-output.js
+++ b/test/cli_test-output.js
@@ -13,15 +13,14 @@ var isWin = /^win/.test(process.platform);
 var phantomCmd;
 if(isWin){
   phantomCmd = 'node_modules/.bin/phantomjs.cmd'
-  console.log('is win');
-  console.log('is win');
+  console.log('is win')
 }
 else{
   phantomCmd = 'node_modules/.bin/phantomjs'
 }
 var singleFile = {
         files: [fileTestMermaid]
-      , outputDir:  path.join(process.cwd(),'test/tmp2/')
+      , outputDir:  path.join(process.cwd(),'test/tmp_single')
       , phantomPath: path.join(process.cwd(),phantomCmd)
       , width : 1200
       , css: path.join(__dirname, '..', 'dist', 'mermaid.css')
@@ -29,8 +28,12 @@ var singleFile = {
       , ganttConfig: null
     }
   , multiFile = {
-        files: [path.join('test','fixtures','test.mermaid'), path.join('test','fixtures','test2.mermaid')]
-      , outputDir: 'test/tmp2/'
+        files: [path.join('test','fixtures','test.mermaid'), 
+                path.join('test','fixtures','test2.mermaid'),
+                path.join('test','fixtures','gantt.mermaid'),
+                path.join('test','fixtures','sequence.mermaid'),
+                ]
+      , outputDir: 'test/tmp_multi'
       , phantomPath: path.join(process.cwd(),phantomCmd)
       , width : 1200
       , css: path.join(__dirname, '..', 'dist', 'mermaid.css')
@@ -45,6 +48,7 @@ test('output of single png', function(t) {
   var expected = ['test.mermaid.png']
 
   opt = clone(singleFile)
+  opt.outputDir += '_png'
   opt.png = true
  
   mermaid.process(opt.files, opt, function(code) {
@@ -57,9 +61,11 @@ test('output of single png', function(t) {
 test('output of multiple png', function(t) {
   t.plan(3)
 
-  var expected = ['test.mermaid.png', 'test2.mermaid.png']
+  var expected = ['test.mermaid.png', 'test2.mermaid.png', 
+    'gantt.mermaid.png', 'sequence.mermaid.png']
 
   opt = clone(multiFile)
+  opt.outputDir += '_png'
   opt.png = true
 
   mermaid.process(opt.files, opt, function(code) {
@@ -75,6 +81,7 @@ test('output of single svg', function(t) {
   var expected = ['test.mermaid.svg']
 
   opt = clone(singleFile)
+  opt.outputDir += '_svg'
   opt.svg = true
 
   mermaid.process(opt.files, opt, function(code) {
@@ -87,9 +94,11 @@ test('output of single svg', function(t) {
 test('output of multiple svg', function(t) {
   t.plan(3)
 
-  var expected = ['test.mermaid.svg', 'test2.mermaid.svg']
+  var expected = ['test.mermaid.svg', 'test2.mermaid.svg', 
+    'gantt.mermaid.svg', 'sequence.mermaid.svg']
 
   opt = clone(multiFile)
+  opt.outputDir += '_svg'
   opt.svg = true
 
   mermaid.process(opt.files, opt, function(code) {
@@ -110,28 +119,22 @@ test('output including CSS', function(t) {
     , two
 
   opt.png = true
+  opt.outputDir += '_css_png'
   opt2.png = true
+  opt2.outputDir += '_css_png'
 
 
   mermaid.process(opt.files, opt, function(code) {
     t.equal(code, 0, 'has clean exit code')
     filename = path.join(opt.outputDir, path.basename(expected[0]))
     one = fs.statSync(filename)
-      //console.log('one: '+opt.files[0]);
 
     opt2.css = path.join('test','fixtures','test.css')
-      //console.log(opt2.css);
 
-      console.log('Generating #2');
-      //console.log('two: '+opt2.files[0]);
+    console.log('Generating #2');
     mermaid.process(opt2.files, opt2, function(code) {
       t.equal(code, 0, 'has clean exit code')
       two = fs.statSync(filename)
-
-        //console.log('one: '+one.size);
-        //console.log('two: '+two.size);
-
-
       t.notEqual(one.size, two.size)
 
       verifyFiles(expected, opt.outputDir, t)
@@ -151,8 +154,9 @@ function verifyFiles(expected, dir, t) {
       }
     , function(err) {
         t.notOk(err, 'all files passed')
-
-        rimraf(dir, function(rmerr) {
+        var delete_tmps = true
+        var _rimraf=delete_tmps ? rimraf : function(dir, f) { f(0); }
+        _rimraf(dir, function(rmerr) {
           t.notOk(rmerr, 'cleaned up')
           t.end()
         })
diff --git a/test/fixtures/gantt.mermaid b/test/fixtures/gantt.mermaid
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..62e1ceba3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/fixtures/gantt.mermaid
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+gantt
+dateFormat YYYY-MM-DD
+title Adding GANTT diagram functionality to mermaid
+section A section
+Completed task :done, des1, 2014-01-06,2014-01-08
+Active task :active, des2, 2014-01-09, 3d
+Future task : des3, after des2, 5d
+Future task2 : des4, after des3, 5d