Re: [agtk-devel] displaying AGs

[Mark L. <my...@un...>]

 >> Margit Gut writes:
 >> > Is there any program with which I can print an annotation graph as a
 >> > picture, like those in your documentation?  I would like to look,
 >> > what my graph looks like, if I print it out. It is difficult to read
 >> > the xml file and to imagine how it could look like.
 >
 >Margit,
 >
 >We don't have such a tool at this moment, but we just started working on a
 >program for graph visualization (CVS/AGAPPS-AGView).  It's going to use
 >either 1) Graphviz (dot) (http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/)
 >or 2) its own display widget using the Tk canvas widget.
 >
 >-Kazuaki Maeda
 >LDC

Let me add that if you are interested in graphics for a publication or
presentation, the graphviz package is quite flexible and relatively
easy to learn to use.

The general problem of laying out arbitrary graphs for vizualization
in a readable way is a very hard one, but if you have graphs of a
particular kind, you could probably write a quick perl (or similar)
script to mediate effectively between the XML transfer format and a
general graph-layout and rendering package such as graphviz.

   -Mark Liberman