Ranking to prefer shorter edges

[marcello3d]

Hello again!

I've run into this situation where it seems to be snapping parts of the tree to the top of the screen resulting in long edges:

digraph {
  a1->a2->a3->a4->a5->a6->o
  b1->o
  c1->c2->o
  d1->d2->d3->o
}

Here's the same graph on graphviz's dot command:

It's not entirely sure which approach is better, but it seems like the 'b1' node should be at the top, or the rest should aligned to the bottom.

Thanks for your time.

[cpettitt]

I think the dot approach is a little easier to read since the eye doesn't have to move as much for the edges. Also, shorter paths will result in faster rendering. This is actually a bug in dagre itself.

[marcello3d]

Whoops. I must have just autocompleted to the wrong github url! Do you want me to move the issue over?

[cpettitt]

Sure, if you don't mind.

Thanks!

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On Dec 11, 2013, at 15:26, Marcello Bastéa-Forte notifications@github.com wrote:

Whoops. I must have just autocompleted to the wrong github url! Do you want me to move the issue over?

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[marcello3d]

moved to dagrejs/dagre#105