DOT and global/graph attributes?

[Christos Vontas]

Hi,

I'm trying to set the font for the graph like this:

digraph G {
    -Gfontname="Trebuchet MS"
    ...
}

but nothing seems to be happening. The "converter" doesn't respect it either and it doesn't throw any errors. Initially, I though I was doing something wrong with the fontname value, but If I add it individually to each element it respects it.

Also since we are on that subject the -N and -E operators for global attributes for all the nodes and edges don't seem to have any effect either.

Thanks,
Chris

[Hugo Freire Gil]

Hi @cv711, can you point me to this feature at dot documentation?

[Christos Vontas]

Ha!

I was using this paper as my reference and I was trying to set some of the graph attributes described in the table in page 6. e.g. fontname but when I was looking at the syntax I jumped into the Command Line Options without realising it. Sorry about that!

However, the issue on how to set the fontname on a graph level remains.
Following, this doc this time it also defines that fontname is a graph attribute.
So something like this:

digraph G {
    fontname="Trebuchet MS"
    ...
}

should probably work right?
It doesn't complain, but it doesn't seem to respect it either.

Thanks.

[Hugo Freire Gil]

I think this property is only available for SVG output. There is a feature request #2 to allow it.

[Christos Vontas]

I see... Thanks for your time.