DOTTY
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NAME
dotty - A Customizable Graph Editor
SYNOPSIS
dotty
[
-V
] [
-lmmode
] [
-ellev
] [
file
]
DESCRIPTION
dotty
is a graph editor for the X Window System. It may be run as a standalone
editor, or as a front end for applications that use graphs. It can control
multiple windows viewing different graphs.
dotty
is written on top of
dot
and
lefty.
lefty
is a general-purpose programmable editor for technical pictures. It has an
interpretive programming language similar to AWK and C. The user interface and
graph editing operations of
dotty
are written as
lefty
functions.
Programmer-defined graph operations may be loaded as well. Graph layouts are
made by
dot,
which runs as a separate process that communicates with
lefty
through pipes.
If the input graph contains xdot attributes,
dotty
will use that to display the graph. Otherwise, it runs
dot
to obtain layout information.
USAGE
The file name is optional. If present, the graph contained in that file is
displayed in the
dotty
window.
OPTIONS
- -V
-
Prints the version.
- -lmmode
-
Sets the layout mode. The mode can be sync or async. The default is async.
- -ellev
-
Sets the mesage level. The lev can be 0 or 1. The default is 0.
BUGS
The lefty parser does not accept anonymous graphs.
SEE ALSO
dot(1),
lefty(1),
lneato(1),
xdot(3)
dotty
user guide.