Hello all,
I wanted to reduce the distance between nodes to make my state diagram slimmer. Unfortunately ranksep does not work inside states, while nodesep does work. See the following examples:
skinparam nodesep 50
skinparam ranksep 50
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skinparam nodesep 15
skinparam ranksep 15
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Observed behavior:
As can be seen with (*,s1), (s2,s3), (s3,sa) and (sa,*), the connections are according to the nodesep and ranksep specifications. If you change the parameters, these values follow the changes. Connection (s2,s3) is long and not affected by the parameters, but this is as expected, since s3 is a big state.
All connections inside s3 are not affected at all by the ranksep and nodesep parameters.
Expected Behavior:
All connections inside s3 follow (somewhat) the restrictions given by the parameters. I expected to at least affect the vertical connections (*,s4),(s5,s6), (s6,s7), and (s7,s8).
Tested Versions:
Current Version of PlantUML Web Server (see links)
Local Version on Computer (some old 2019 Version)
Thanks in advance!
