On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, John Edstrom wrote: > Right now I'm building automatons which can get pretty complex. > Layout is my main concern, more than rendering or manipulation. I use > the perl Graph::Directed module which, happily enough, writes xml > and/or 'dot' files ( from the graphviz package). With the right > arguments dot will figure out a reasonably well-balanced layout for > the digraph and dump the coordinates of the nodes and edges. I figure > it shouldn't be too difficult to convert or rescale the dot-calculated > coordinates into dia coordinates which would give me a better renderer > of the same graph. If that's the case then my strategy is to convert > from dot >>-> ( xml | xsl ) >>-> dia.xml.
I've been looking a tiny bit at reading annotated dot files. That'd be quite useful indeed. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
