In this diagram, I want the first assoc cona_700000166_type1 to be to the left of the relation. I've specified ".left." but that has no effect: it takes "." and ignores the rest.
http://plantuml.com/classes.html#Association_classes, says to use "." for right, and ".." for down. In fact it determines automatically whether to put to the right (when the relation is vertical) or down (when the relation is horizontal), and ignores the number of dots.
I want to be able to set the direction, using a notation like .left. .right. .up. .down.