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Re:Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software by AceJohnny2 on Monday January 17, 2022 @04:25PM (#29971842)
I'm actually disappointed that `gvpr` isn't mentioned at all on GraphViz's main page, because I think it's its most powerful tool. All I could find are manpages, and not even on GraphViz's own website!

https://manpages.debian.org/testing/graphviz/gvpr.1.en.html

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Re:Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software by pvaldes on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @06:58AM (#29977859)
Never had heard about it and use graphviz since... dunno, more than 15 years probably.
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Re:Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software by sterlinm on Monday January 17, 2022 @07:20PM (#29973292)
Are there any good examples of how you'd actually use this in practice?
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Re:Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software by j0057 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @01:18AM (#29975764)
I don't know of any example, but I immediately thought of a use case: to use it as a sort of CSS language where you take a graph with only 'semantic' custom attributes and use the GVPR language to transform these into shape and style attributes that are recognized by Graphviz, so that you don't have to repeat all the style information for each node and edge. That's already pretty exciting to me!
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Re:Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software by steveroush on Monday January 17, 2022 @04:50PM (#29972078)
I second the GVPR praise. Pretty powerful.
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