Re: [graphviz-interest] forcing distinct/more ranks?

paul womack wrote:
> I am (one of the many) using GraphViz to make a family tree diagram.
>
> In a bid to get something sensible and usable, I am being
> slightly unconventional, and allowing graphviz more flexiblility than usual.
> Instead of (classically) setting "rank=same" on husbands and wives (nodes) in a marriage,
> and setting "rank=same" on their offspring sets (which we might call "generation centric"), I am
> setting "rank=same" on person (nodes) of the same birth
> year (and, in fact),marriage (nodes) of the same year).
>
> In this way, I not only spread the nodes about a bit, but I also endeavour
> to make the diagram more time-line like.
>
> However, GraphViz is (cleverly) spotting that it doesn't NEED all the ranks
> (implied by year) that I'm offering it, so that persons with different birth
> dates appear on the same rank (Y position).
>
> GraphViz is behaving exactly as I'm telling it.
>
> Question - how can I force it (or persuade it...)
> to put nodes on separate ranks, even if it doesn't need to?

While I'm here, is there a way I can ask GraphViz to
always put offspring at a lower rank than the marriage that spawned
them?

Some marriages are awfully ... prompt ... at making babies.

  BuBear
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