On 21 May 2005, at 9:14, Lars Clausen wrote: > On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 14:18 -0500, Jim Clark wrote:
> > Not a dia question, but I cannot see an answer on the web. I am > > making a flow chart with a sequence of 4 decision points. If any of > > those are a "No" I want to go to the same "re-evaluate" box. Is it > > legal to have the arrows coming out of these decision points all > > merge into one arrow going to this re-evaluate box? > > > > Otherwise I'd have to have 4 arrows right next to each other all > > going to one small box. Just looks ugly to me, and silly as they all > > run parallel for most of their existence. But in my world, where > > form can trump substance, I want to be sure to follow official > > flow-charting rules. > > AFAIK, IBM is the place that has the official flow-charting rules, if > any. We have not based our shapes on any rules as such, so I can't > really point you to any. Is there such a thing as official flow-charting rules? I thought a flow-chart was a rather informal diagram. Wikipedia links to a 5 MB PDF called "Flowcharting Techniques, an IBM manual from 1969" (http://www.fh-jena.de/~kleine/history/software/IBM- FlowchartingTechniques-GC20-8152-1.pdf). -- branko collin [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia
