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NAME

osage - filter for drawing clustered graphs

SYNOPSIS

osage [-(G|N|E)name=value] [-Tlang] [-llibfile] [-ooutfile] [-O] [-P] [-v] [-V] [files]

DESCRIPTION

osage draws clustered graphs. As input, it takes any graph in the dot format. It draws the
graph recursively. At each level, there will be a collection of nodes and a collection of
cluster subgraphs. The internals of each cluster subgraph are laid out, then the cluster
subgraphs and nodes at the current level are positioned relative to each other, treating
each cluster subgraph as a node.

At each level, the nodes and cluster subgraphs are viewed as rectangles to be packed
together. At present, edges are ignored during packing. Packing is done using the
standard packing functions. In particular, the graph attributes pack and packmode control
the layout. Each graph and cluster can specify its own values for these attributes.
Remember also that a cluster inherits its attribute values from its parent graph.

After all nodes and clusters, edges are routed based on the value of the splines
attribute.

OUTPUT FORMATS

Osage uses an extensible plugin mechanism for its output renderers, so to see what output
formats your installation of osage supports you can use ``osage -Txxx'' (where xxx is an
unlikely format) and check the warning message. Also, The plugin mechanism supports
multiple implementations of the output formats. To see what variants are available, use,
for example: ``osage -Tpng:'' and to force a particular variant, use, for example: ``osage
-Tpng:gd''

Traditionally, osage supports the following: -Tps (PostScript), -Tsvg -Tsvgz (Structured
Vector Graphics), -Tfig (XFIG graphics), -Tmif (FrameMaker graphics), -Thpgl (HP pen
plotters), and -Tpcl (Laserjet printers), -Tpng -Tgif (bitmap graphics), -Tdia (GTK+ based
diagrams), -Timap (imagemap files for httpd servers for each node or edge that has a non‐
null "href" attribute.), -Tcmapx (client‐side imagemap for use in html and xhtml).
Additional less common or more special‐purpose output formats can be found at
http://www.graphviz.org/cvs/doc/info/output.html.)

Alternative plugins providing support for a given output format can be found from the
error message resulting from appending a ':' to the format. e.g. -Tpng: The first plugin
listed is always the default.

GRAPH FILE LANGUAGE

Here is a synopsis of the graph file language, normally using the extension .gv, for
graphs:

[strict] (graph|digraph) name { statement‐list }
Is the top level graph. If the graph is strict then multiple edges are not allowed between
the same pairs of nodes. If it is a directed graph, indicated by digraph, then the edgeop
must be "->". If it is an undirected graph then the edgeop must be "--". Statements may
be:

name=val;
node [name=val];
edge [name=val];
Set default graph, node, or edge attribute name to val. Any subgraph, node, or edge
appearing after this inherits the new default attributes.

n0 [name0=val0,name1=val1,...]; Creates node n0 (if it does not already exist) and sets
its attributes according to the optional list.

n0 edgeop n1 edgeop ... edgeop nn [name0=val0,name1=val1,...];
Creates edges between nodes n0, n1, ..., nn and sets their attributes according to the
optional list. Creates nodes as necessary.

[subgraph name] { statement‐list }
Creates a subgraph. Subgraphs may be used in place of n0, ..., nn in the above statements
to create edges. [subgraph name] is optional; if missing, the subgraph is assigned an
internal name.

Comments may be /*C‐like*/ or //C++‐like.

Attribute names and values are ordinary (C‐style) strings. The following sections
describe attributes that control graph layout.

GRAPH ATTRIBUTES

size="x,y" sets bounding box of drawing in inches.

page="x,y" sets the PostScript pagination unit.

ratio=f sets the aspect ratio to f which may be a floating point number, or one of the
keywords fill, compress, or auto.

pagedir=[TBLR][TBLR] sets the major and minor order of pagination.

rotate=90 sets landscape mode. (orientation=land is backward compatible but obsolete.)

center=n a non‐zero value centers the drawing on the page.

layers="id:id:id:id" is a sequence of layer identifiers for overlay diagrams. The
PostScript array variable layercolorseq sets the assignment of colors to layers. The least
index is 1 and each element must be a 3‐element array to be interpreted as a color
coordinate.

color=colorvalue sets foreground color (bgcolor for background).

href="url" the default url for image map files; in PostScript files, the base URL for all
relative URLs, as recognized by Acrobat Distiller 3.0 and up.

URL="url" ("URL" is a synonym for "href".)

stylesheet="file.css" includes a reference to a stylesheet in -Tsvg and -Tsvgz outputs.
Ignored by other formats.

splines. If set to true, edges are drawn as splines. If set to polyline, edges are drawn
as polylines. If set to ortho, edges are drawn as orthogonal polylines. In all of these
cases, the nodes may not overlap. If splines=false or splines=line, edges are drawn as
line segments. The default is false.

NODE ATTRIBUTES

height=d or width=d sets minimum height or width. Adding fixedsize=true forces these to
be the actual size (text labels are ignored).

shape=record polygon epsf builtin_polygon
builtin_polygon is one of: plaintext ellipse oval circle egg triangle box diamond
trapezium parallelogram house hexagon octagon note tab box3d component. (Polygons are
defined or modified by the following node attributes: regular, peripheries, sides,
orientation, distortion and skew.) epsf uses the node's shapefile attribute as the path
name of an external EPSF file to be automatically loaded for the node shape.

label=text where text may include escaped newlines \n, \l, or \r for center, left, and
right justified lines. The string '\N' value will be replaced by the node name. The
string '\G' value will be replaced by the graph name. Record labels may contain recursive
box lists delimited by { | }. Port identifiers in labels are set off by angle brackets <
>. In the graph file, use colon (such as, node0:port28).

fontsize=n sets the label type size to n points.

fontname=name sets the label font family name.

color=colorvalue sets the outline color, and the default fill color if style=filled and
fillcolor is not specified.

fillcolor=colorvalue sets the fill color when style=filled. If not specified, the
fillcolor when style=filled defaults to be the same as the outline color.

fontcolor=colorvalue sets the label text color.

A colorvalue may be "h,s,v" (hue, saturation, brightness) floating point numbers between 0
and 1, or an X11 color name such as white black red green blue yellow magenta cyan or
burlywood, or a "#rrggbb" (red, green, blue, 2 hex characters each) value.

style=filled solid dashed dotted bold invis or any Postscript code.

layer=id or id:id or "all" sets the node's active layers. The empty string means no
layers (invisible).

The following attributes apply only to polygon shape nodes:

regular=n if n is non‐zero then the polygon is made regular, i.e. symmetric about the x
and y axis, otherwise the polygon takes on the aspect ratio of the label.
builtin_polygons that are not already regular are made regular by this attribute.
builtin_polygons that are already regular are not affected (i.e. they cannot be made
asymmetric).

peripheries=n sets the number of periphery lines drawn around the polygon. This value
supersedes the number of periphery lines of builtin_polygons.

sides=n sets the number of sides to the polygon. n<3 results in an ellipse. This
attribute is ignored by builtin_polygons.

orientation=f sets the orientation of the first apex of the polygon counterclockwise from
the vertical, in degrees. f may be a floating point number. The orientation of labels is
not affected by this attribute. This attribute is added to the initial orientation of
builtin_polygons.

distortion=f sets the amount of broadening of the top and narrowing of the bottom of the
polygon (relative to its orientation). Floating point values between -1 and +1 are
suggested. This attribute is ignored by builtin_polygons.

skew=f sets the amount of right‐displacement of the top and left‐displacement of the
bottom of the polygon (relative to its orientation). Floating point values between -1 and
+1 are suggested. This attribute is ignored by builtin_polygons.

href="url" sets the url for the node in imagemap, PostScript and SVG files. The
substrings '\N' and '\G' are substituted in the same manner as for the node label
attribute. Additionally the substring '\L' is substituted with the node label string.

URL="url" ("URL" is a synonym for "href".)

target="target" is a target string for client‐side imagemaps and SVG, effective when nodes
have a URL. The target string is used to determine which window of the browser is used
for the URL. Setting it to "_graphviz" will open a new window if it doesn't already
exist, or reuse it if it does. If the target string is empty, the default, then no target
attribute is included in the output. The substrings '\N' and '\G' are substituted in the
same manner as for the node label attribute. Additionally the substring '\L' is
substituted with the node label string.

tooltip="tooltip" is a tooltip string for client‐side imagemaps and SVG, effective when
nodes have a URL. The tooltip string defaults to be the same as the label string, but
this attribute permits nodes without labels to still have tooltips thus permitting denser
graphs. The substrings '\N' and '\G' are substituted in the same manner as for the node
label attribute. Additionally the substring '\L' is substituted with the node label
string.

EDGE ATTRIBUTES

label=text where text may include escaped newlines \n, \l, or \r for centered, left, or
right justified lines. If the substring '\T' is found in a label it will be replaced by
the tail_node name. If the substring '\H' is found in a label it will be replaced by the
head_node name. If the substring '\E' value is found in a label it will be replaced by:
tail_node_name->head_node_name If the substring '\G' is found in a label it will be
replaced by the graph name. or by: tail_node_name--head_node_name for undirected graphs.

fontsize=n sets the label type size to n points.

fontname=name sets the label font family name.

fontcolor=colorvalue sets the label text color.

style=solid dashed dotted bold invis

color=colorvalue sets the line color for edges.

color=colorvaluelist a ':' separated list of colorvalue creates parallel edges, one edge
for each color.

dir=forward back both none controls arrow direction.

tailclip,headclip=false disables endpoint shape clipping.

href="url" sets the url for the node in imagemap, PostScript and SVG files. The
substrings '\T', '\H', '\E' and '\G' are substituted in the same manner as for the edge
label attribute. Additionally the substring '\L' is substituted with the edge label
string.

URL="url" ("URL" is a synonym for "href".)

target="target" is a target string for client‐side imagemaps and SVG, effective when edges
have a URL. If the target string is empty, the default, then no target attribute is
included in the output. The substrings '\T', '\H', '\E' and '\G' are substituted in the
same manner as for the edge label attribute. Additionally the substring '\L' is
substituted with the edge label string.

tooltip="tooltip" is a tooltip string for client‐side imagemaps effective when edges have
a URL. The tooltip string defaults to be the same as the edge label string. The
substrings '\T', '\H', '\E' and '\G' are substituted in the same manner as for the edge
label attribute. Additionally the substring '\L' is substituted with the edge label
string.

arrowhead,arrowtail=none, normal, inv, dot, odot, invdot, invodot, tee, empty, invempty,
open, halfopen, diamond, odiamond, box, obox, crow.

arrowsize (norm_length=10,norm_width=5, inv_length=6,inv_width=7,dot_radius=2)

headlabel,taillabel=string for port labels. labelfontcolor,labelfontname,labelfontsize
for head and tail labels. The substrings '\T', '\H', '\E' and '\G' are substituted in the
same manner as for the edge label attribute. Additionally the substring '\L' is
substituted with the edge label string.

headhref="url" sets the url for the head port in imagemap, PostScript and SVG files. The
substrings '\T', '\H', '\E' and '\G' are substituted in the same manner as for the edge
label attribute. Additionally the substring '\L' is substituted with the edge label
string.

headURL="url" ("headURL" is a synonym for "headhref".)

headtarget="headtarget" is a target string for client‐side imagemaps and SVG, effective
when edge heads have a URL. The headtarget string is used to determine which window of
the browser is used for the URL. If the headtarget string is empty, the default, then
headtarget defaults to the same value as target for the edge. The substrings '\T', '\H',
'\E' and '\G' are substituted in the same manner as for the edge label attribute.
Additionally the substring '\L' is substituted with the edge label string.

headtooltip="tooltip" is a tooltip string for client‐side imagemaps effective when head
ports have a URL. The tooltip string defaults to be the same as the headlabel string.
The substrings '\T', '\H', and '\E' are substituted in the same manner as for the edge
label attribute. Additionally the substring '\L' is substituted with the edge label
string.

tailhref="url" sets the url for the tail port in imagemap, PostScript and SVG files. The
substrings '\T', '\H', '\E' and '\G' are substituted in the same manner as for the edge
label attribute. Additionally the substring '\L' is substituted with the edge label
string.

tailURL="url" ("tailURL" is a synonym for "tailhref".)

tailtarget="tailtarget" is a target string for client‐side imagemaps and SVG, effective
when edge tails have a URL. The tailtarget string is used to determine which window of
the browser is used for the URL. If the tailtarget string is empty, the default, then
tailtarget defaults to the same value as target for the edge. The substrings '\T', '\H',
'\E' and '\G' are substituted in the same manner as for the edge label attribute.
Additionally the substring '\L' is substituted with the edge label string.

tailtooltip="tooltip" is a tooltip string for client‐side imagemaps effective when tail
ports have a URL. The tooltip string defaults to be the same as the taillabel string.
The substrings '\T', '\H', '\E' and '\G' are substituted in the same manner as for the
edge label attribute. Additionally the substring '\L' is substituted with the edge label
string.

labeldistance and port_label_distance set distance; also labelangle (in degrees CCW)

decorate draws line from edge to label.

samehead,sametail aim edges having the same value to the same port, using the average
landing point.

layer=id or id:id or "all" sets the edge's active layers. The empty string means no
layers (invisible).

(neato‐specific attributes)
w=f sets the weight (spring constant) of an edge to the given floating point value. The
default is 1.0; greater values make the edge tend more toward its optimal length.

len=f sets the optimal length of an edge. The default is 1.0.

COMMAND LINE OPTIONS

-G sets a default graph attribute.
-N sets a default node attribute.
-E sets a default edge attribute. Example: -Gsize="7,8" -Nshape=box -Efontsize=8

-lfile loads custom PostScript library files. Usually these define custom shapes or
styles. If -l is given by itself, the standard library is omitted.

-Tlang sets the output language as described above.

-O automatically generate output filenames based on the input filename and the -T format.

-v (verbose) prints various information useful for debugging.

-V (version) prints version information and exits.

-? prints the usage and exits.

EXAMPLES

digraph test123 {
pack=8
subgraph cluster0 {
packmode=array
x y x0 y0 x1
subgraph cluster1 {
m n
}
}
b [shape=box];
c [label="hello\nworld",color=blue,fontsize=24,
fontname="Palatino-Italic",fontcolor=red,style=filled];
a -> z
x -> z
a -> b -> c;
a -> {x y};
edge [style=dashed,color=red];
b -> x;
}

AUTHORS

Emden R. Gansner <[email protected]>

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