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 **Three additional comments from Knut, the creator of mermaid:**
 - In early versions of mermaid, the `<script src>` tag was invoked in the `<head>` part of the web page. Nowdays we can place it directly in `<body>` as seen above. However, the documentation still frequently reflects the old way which still works.
   
-- We initialize the mermaid rendering with `mermaid.initialize()` directly in the html code, in principle this instead could be done through placing `mermaid.initialize()` inside of mermaid.min.js. We would thereby eliminate this explicit line in the html. However, there are use cases where we do want to separate these two steps. Sometimes we want full control over when we start looking for `<div>`tags inside the web page, as all `<div>` tags may not have loaded when `mermaid.min.js` runs.
+- We initialize the mermaid rendering with `mermaid.initialize()` directly in the html code. In principle this could be done through placing `mermaid.initialize()` inside of `mermaid.min.js`. We would then eliminate the need for this explicit line in the html. However, there are use cases where we do want to separate these two steps. Sometimes we want full control over when we start looking for `<div>`tags inside the web page, as all `<div>` tags may not have loaded when `mermaid.min.js` runs.
 
 - In the example above, the `mermaid.min.js` is called using an absolute path. Even worse, it includes the mermaid version number, which will of course change as time goes by. However the example makes it easy to understand what is going on, even though it is doomed in a way we do not want in a production environment. When going from testing mermaid out to getting serious with it, I would suggest one of the following approaches for calling `mermaid.min.js`:
   
