Re: [graphviz-interest] left-alignment in labels

On Dec 14, 2014, at 8:57 AM, Andreas Matthias wrote:
> 
> In the following example the text is not left-aligned correctly.
> The second and third line are indented a bit.
> 
> digraph G {
>   node [ shape = "record" ]
>   A [
>       label="{\
>           aaa\l\
>           bbb\l\
>           ccc\l\
>       }"
>   ]
> }
> 
> I can force a correct alignment by removing indentation in the source file:
> 
> digraph G {
>   node [ shape = "record" ]
>   A [
>       label="{\
>           aaa\l\
> bbb\l\
> ccc\l\
>       }"
>   ]
> }
> 
> But this is not perfect concerning readability, as is writing everything
> into one line. 
> 
> Is this considered a bug or is escaping of the end of line character not
> supported?
> 
> I'm still using version 2.36.0. 

I'm not sure why the whitespace is removed before the first line but not before the other lines, but I would say if you don't want whitespace, don't insert it. In other words,

label="{aaa\lbbb\lccc\l}"

works fine. Also, consider using the HTML-like label syntax instead of the older and less-capable record syntax.


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