Re: [graphviz-interest] How much of the HTML syntax can I use?

Thank you Emden

On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Emden R. Gansner <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 3/2/13 8:51 PM, Stefan Petrea wrote:
>
>> But I also tried things like <p> or <div> and those didn't work.
>> What could I do to use a larger subset of the HTML syntax?
>>
> First, note that Graphviz provides just an HTML-like syntax. It adopts the
> parts that
> seem most useful for describing the contents of a node. It has features
> that are not
> in HTML and vice versa. Things like <p> don't make as much sense in
> Graphviz, as to
> handle paragraphs, you need to know how wide a node would be, but the
> label is
> what determines how wide the node is. (Obviously, if the width of the node
> is fixed, then
> <p> would make sense and could be implemented.)
>
> In any case, the elements supported in Graphviz are described at
>
>   http://www.graphviz.org/**content/node-shapes#html<http://www.graphviz.org/content/node-shapes#html>
>
> In addition to the tabular elements, the main items relate to font control.
>
>     Emden
>
>
>
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