Line text far from line end

Question

In the diagram below, "1 (url)", "3 (bla ok)" and "4 (argh)" are texts at the end of lines that arrive in A, are too far from the end of its respective lines.

Is it possible to make them stay close to the line end? 

@startuml

skinparam linetype ortho
skinparam nodesep 120
 

cloud F
actor G

node H {
    package A <<program>> {
        component B <<lib>>
    }

    package C <<program>>

    package D <<program>> {
        component E <<lib>>
    }
}

A -[bold,#green]- "2 (bla)" F

F -[bold,#green]- "3 (bla ok)" A 

G -[bold,#green]- C

A "4 (argh)" -[bold,#red]- C

E  -[bold,#blue]- "1 (url)" A
@enduml

Thanks!

Comments

Hello C.,

From:

A possible workaround is to use ELK, adding:

!pragma layout elk

As:

But there are some other issues with up line from A and up line from C...

See doc. here:

• https://plantuml.com/elk

Regards.

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Here is another proposal, as:

@startuml
left to right direction 
skinparam linetype ortho
'skinparam nodesep 120

actor G
node H {
    package A <<program>> {
        component B <<lib>>
    }

    package C <<program>>

    package D <<program>> {
        component E <<lib>>
    }
}
cloud F

A -[bold,#green]- "2 (bla)" F
F -[bold,#green]- "3 (bla ok)" A 
G ---- C
A "4 (argh)" -[bold,#red] C
E  -[bold,#blue]d- "1 (url)" A
@enduml

Regards.

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@PlantUML

When I use "!pragma svek_trace on" on the OP's diagram, I get the following dot file:

This explains why the OP's arrow texts are in the positions they are... the labels are positioned around the point node that has been added to package A.

But perhaps you can explain something I've never understood - why do you not use "compound=true" with "lhead" and "ltail" in these diagrams?  And how does Plantuml get the arrows to truncate at the cluster edges without these additional attributes?

Here's a mock-up of the same diagram but with some lhead and ltail attributes added:

You can now see the 'point' shape (zacl0005) that has been added to package "A", as all the arrows to/from it now start/end at the cluster edge.  And the text labels have moved to the cluster edge, where the OP expects them.