Re: [Gramps-users] Minimising crossings in rel_graph

[Ron J. <ron...@co...>]

On 11/17/2012 01:36 AM, Peter Hewett wrote:
>
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> However, manually changing around the lines in the .gv file, and running dot
> each time to check if it has improved the layout, is rather tedious.  So I
> have written a little python script to automate the process.
>
> My .gv file has 401 people in it, and the .gv file produced by Gramps had 41
> crossings.  By manually moving lines, I got it down to 19, but it took ages.
> With the script, it is down to 9 corssings, which is a much better looking
> layout.
>
> So, would this little python script be of use to anyone else, and is there
> somewhere on the Gramps that I can upload it?
> (Sorry, I'm not a programmer, so the coding is probably rather poor, but it
> does seem to do the job of reducing crossings.)
>

If it's generalize, then please post it to this mailing list or something 
like pastebin.com!

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