Graph::Easy - Manual

Attributes

If you haven't done so, please read the Overview first.

This chapter describes all the possible attributes for graphs.
This page was generated automatically from the definitions in Graph::Easy::Attributes.

Graphs

align

The alignment of the label text. One of: center, left, right.
Defaults to:

  • left for edge
  • left for group
  • center for anything else

Example graph:

graph { align: left; label: My Graph; }
node {align: left;}
 ( Nodes:
 [ Right\nAligned ] { align: right; } -- label\n text -->
 { align: left; }
 [ Left\naligned ] )
My Graph
  Nodes:          
  Right
Aligned
  label
text
>   Left
aligned
 
 
             

autolabel

Will restrict the label text to N characters. N must be greater than 10. See the section about labels, titles, names and links for reference.
Defaults to:

  • for graph
  • inherit for anything else

Example graph:

graph { autolabel: 20; autotitle: name; }

[ Bonn ]
 -- Acme Travels Incorporated -->
  [ Frankfurt (Main) / Flughafen ]
Bonn Acme Tr ... porated > Frankfu ... ughafen
 

autolink

If set to something else than 'none', will use the appropriate attribute to automatically generate the link, unless link is already set. See the section about labels, titles, names and links for reference. One of: label, title, name, none, inherit.
Defaults to:

  • none for graph
  • inherit for anything else

Example value: title

autotitle

If set to something else than 'none', will use the appropriate attribute to automatically generate the title, unless title is already set. See the section about labels, titles, names and links for reference. One of: label, name, none, link, inherit.
Defaults to:

  • none for graph
  • inherit for anything else

Example value: label

background

The background color, e.g. the color outside the shape. Do not confuse with fill. If set to inherit, the object will inherit the fill color (not the background color!) of the parent e.g. the enclosing group or graph. See the section about color names and values for reference.
Defaults to: inherit
Example graph:

[ Crimson ] { shape: circle; background: crimson; }
 -- Aqua Marine --> { background: #7fffd4; }
 [ Misty Rose ]
  { background: white; fill: rgb(255,228,221); shape: ellipse; }
Crimson
Aqua Marine >
Misty Rose
 

border

The border. Can be any combination of borderstyle, bordercolor and borderwidth.
Defaults to:

  • dashed 1px #000000 for group
  • none for group.anon
  • solid 1px #000000 for node
  • none for node.anon
  • none for anything else

Example graph:

[ Normal ]
 --> [ Bold ]      { border: bold; }
 --> [ Broad ]     { border: broad; }
 --> [ Wide ]      { border: wide; }
 --> [ Bold-Dash ] { border: bold-dash; }
Normal   > Bold   > Broad   > Wide   > Bold-Dash
       

bordercolor

The color of the border. See the section about color names and values for reference.
Defaults to:

  • #000000 for anything else

Example graph:

node { border: black bold; }
[ Black ]
 --> [ Red ]      { bordercolor: red; }
 --> [ Green ]    { bordercolor: green; }
Black   > Red   > Green
   

borderstyle

The style of the border. The special styles "bold", "broad", "wide", "double-dash" and "bold-dash" will set and override the borderwidth. One of: none, solid, dotted, dashed, dot-dash, dot-dot-dash, double, wave, bold, bold-dash, broad, double-dash, wide.
Defaults to:

  • dashed for group
  • none for group.anon
  • solid for node
  • none for node.anon
  • none for anything else

Example graph:

node { border: dotted; }
[ Dotted ]
 --> [ Dashed ]      { borderstyle: dashed; }
 --> [ broad ]    { borderstyle: broad; }
Dotted   > Dashed   > broad
   

borderwidth

The width of the border. Certain border-styles will override the width.
Defaults to: 1
Example value: 2px

class

The subclass of the object. See the section about class names for reference.
Defaults to:
Example value: mynodeclass

color

The foreground/text/label color. See the section about color names and values for reference.
Defaults to: black
Example graph:

[ Lime ] { color: limegreen; }
 -- label --> { color: blue; labelcolor: red; }
 [ Dark Orange ] { color: rgb(255,50%,0.01); }
Lime label > Dark Orange
 

colorscheme

The colorscheme to use for all color values. See the section about color names and values for reference and a list of possible values.
Defaults to:

  • w3c for graph
  • inherit for anything else

Example graph:

graph { colorscheme: accent8; } [ 1 ] { fill: 1; }
 -> 
 [ 3 ] { fill: 3; }
 -> 
 [ 4 ] { fill: 4; }
 -> 
 [ 5 ] { fill: 5; }
 -> 
 [ 6 ] { fill: 6; }
 -> 
 [ 7 ] { fill: 7; }
 -> 
 [ 8 ] { fill: 8; }

1   > 3   > 4   > 5   > 6   > 7   > 8
           

comment

A free-form text field containing a comment on this object. This will be embedded into output formats if possible, e.g. in HTML, SVG and Graphviz, but not ASCII or Boxart.
Defaults to:
Example graph:

graph { comment: German capitals; }
 [ Bonn ] --> [ Berlin ]
Bonn   > Berlin
 

fill

The fill color, e.g. the color inside the shape. For the graph, this is the background color for the label. For edges, the color inside the arrow shape. See also background. See the section about color names and values for reference.
Defaults to:

  • inherit for edge
  • inherit for graph
  • #a0d0ff for group
  • white for group.anon
  • inherit for node.anon
  • white for anything else

Example graph:

[ Crimson ]
  {
  shape: circle;
  background: yellow;
  fill: red;
  border: 3px solid blue;
  }
-- Aqua Marine -->
  {
  arrowstyle: filled;
  fill: red;
  }
[ Two ]
Crimson
Aqua Marine Two
 

flow

The general direction in which edges will leave nodes first. On edges, influeces where the target node is place. Please see the section about flow control for reference.
Defaults to:

  • east for graph
  • inherit for anything else

Example graph:

graph { flow: up; }
 [ Enschede ] { flow: left; } -> [ Bielefeld ] -> [ Wolfsburg ]
Enschede
   
 
Bielefeld   > Wolfsburg
 

font

A prioritized list of lower-case, unquoted values, separated by a comma. Values are either font family names (like "times", "arial" etc) or generic family names (like "serif", "cursive", "monospace"), the first recognized value will be used. Always offer a generic name as the last possibility.
Defaults to:

  • sans-serif for edge
  • serif for anything else

Example graph:

graph { font: vinque, georgia, utopia, serif; label: Sample; }

 ( Nodes:
 [ Webdings ] { font: Dingbats, webdings; }
 -- FlatLine -->
 { font: flatline; }
  [ Normal ] )
Sample
  Nodes:          
  Webdings   FlatLine >   Normal  
 
             

fontsize

The size of the label text, best expressed in em (1.0em, 0.5em etc) or percent (100%, 50% etc)
Defaults to:

  • 1em for graph
  • 1em for node
  • 0.8em for anything else

Example graph:

graph { fontsize: 200%; label: Sample; }

 ( Nodes:
 [ Big ] { fontsize: 1.5em; color: white; fill: darkred; }
  -- Small -->
 { fontsize: 0.2em; }
  [ Normal ] )
Sample
  Nodes:          
  Big   Small >   Normal  
 
             

format

The formatting language of the label. The default, none means nothing special will be done. When set to pod, formatting codes like B<bold> will change the formatting of the label. See the section about label text formatting for reference. One of: none, pod.
Defaults to: none
Example graph:

graph {
  format: pod;
  label: I am B<bold> and I<italic>;
  }
node { format: pod; }
edge { format: pod; }

[ U<B<bold and underlined>> ]
--> { label: "S<Fähre>"; }
 [ O<Konstanz> ]

I am bold and italic
U<bold and underlined> Fähre > Konstanz
 

gid

A unique ID for the graph. Usefull if you want to include two graphs into one HTML page.
Defaults to:
Example value: 123

id

A unique identifier for this object, consisting only of letters, digits, or underscores.
Defaults to:
Example graph:

[ Bonn ] --> { id: 123; } [ Berlin ]
Bonn   > Berlin
 

label

The text displayed as label. If not set, equals the name (for nodes) or no label (for edges, groups and the graph itself).
Defaults to:
Example value: My label

labelpos

The position of the graph label. One of: top, bottom.
Defaults to: top
Example graph:

graph { labelpos: bottom; label: My Graph; }

 [ Buxtehude ] -> [ Fuchsberg ]

Buxtehude   > Fuchsberg
 
My Graph

link

The link part, appended onto linkbase. See the section about links for reference.
Defaults to:
Example graph:

node {
  autolink: name;
  textstyle: none;
  fontsize: 1.1em;
  }
graph {
  linkbase: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/;
  }
edge {
  textstyle: overline;
  }

[] --> [ Friedrichshafen ]
 -- Schiff --> { autolink: label; color: orange; title: Vrooom!; }
[ Immenstaad ] { color: green; } --> [ Hagnau ]

  > Friedrichshafen Schiff > Immenstaad   > Hagnau
     

linkbase

The base URL prepended to all generated links. See the section about links for reference.
Defaults to:

  • /wiki/index.php/ for graph
  • inherit for anything else

Example value: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

output

The desired output format. Only used when calling Graph::Easy::output(), or by mediawiki-graph. One of: ascii, html, svg, graphviz, boxart, debug.
Defaults to:
Example graph:

graph { output: debug; }
# Using Graph::Easy v0.58
# Using Graph::Easy::As_svg v0.22
# Running Perl v5.008008 under linux

# Input normalized as_txt:

graph { output: debug; }

root

The name of the root node, given as hint to the layouter to start the layout there. When not set, the layouter will pick a node at semi-random.
Defaults to:
Example graph:

graph { root: B; }
 # B will be at the left-most place
 [ A ] --> [ B ] --> [ C ] --> [ D ] --> [ A ]
     
     
 
A   > B   > C   > D
     

textstyle

The style of the label text. Either 'none', or any combination (separated with spaces) of 'underline', 'overline', 'bold', 'italic', 'line-through'. 'none' disables underlines on links.
Defaults to:
Example graph:

graph {
  fontsize: 150%;
  label: Verbindung;
  textstyle: bold italic;
  }
node {
  textstyle: underline bold;
  fill: #ffd080;
  }
edge {
  textstyle: italic bold overline;
  }

[ Meersburg ] { fontsize: 2em; }
 -- Fähre --> { fontsize: 1.2em; color: red; }
 [ Konstanz ]

Verbindung
Meersburg Fähre > Konstanz
 

textwrap

The default none makes the label text appear exactly as it was written, with manual line breaks applied. When set to a positive number, the label text will be wrapped after this number of characters. When set to auto, the label text will be wrapped to make the node size as small as possible, depending on output format this may even be dynamic. When not none, manual line breaks and alignments on them are ignored.
Defaults to:

  • none for graph
  • inherit for anything else

Example graph:

node { textwrap: auto; }
 ( Nodes:
 [ Frankfurt (Oder) liegt an der
   ostdeutschen Grenze und an der Oder ] -->
 [ Städte innerhalb der
   Ost-Westfahlen Region mit sehr langen Namen] )
  Nodes:          
  Frankfurt (Oder) liegt an der ostdeutschen Grenze und an der Oder     >   Städte innerhalb der Ost-Westfahlen Region mit sehr langen Namen  
 
             

title

The text displayed as mouse-over for nodes/edges, or as the title for the graph. If empty, no title will be generated unless autotitle is set.
Defaults to:
Example value: My title

type

The type of the graph, either undirected or directed. One of: directed, undirected.
Defaults to: directed
Example graph:

graph { type: undirected; }
 [ A ] --> [ B ]
A   > B