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Dot will set relative Y value via ranking. All nodes with the same rank share a common Y.

Cool! Will it emulate/recreate any of the other engines (neato, etc.)?

If you have Graphviz "how do I do..." questions, try the forum (https://forum.graphviz.org/) or stackoverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/). If you have bug fix or enhancement requests, try https://gitlab.com/graphviz/graphviz/-/issues?scope=all&stat...

I second the GVPR praise. Pretty powerful.

Look at the group attribute, it can help with vertical (off-rank) alignment

Hmmm, Graphviz can do this now. Search the FAQ for "how do I use non-ASCII character sets"

Continuing to show my ignorance, would adding a TikZ output option be a good thing? I'm fuzzy as to Tex/LaTex/TikZ relationship. The graphics part in TikZ looks pretty simple to do. The font/equations/... stuff is an unknown story.

"default styles" - are you talking about default fonts, or something else?

I think dpic has surpassed pic/gpic

There are multiple ways. Several of the output file formats contain this info as text.

I wouldn't quite call it nesting, but you can draw nodes on top of other nodes and to a large degree edges still work. But it requires explicit positioning of the "upper" nodes.

I'm not a TeX user, are you asking for: 1. TeX output file format, but with current font drivers 2. Current output file formats, but with TeX fonts 3. TeX output with TeX fonts 4. Something else