Components alignment left to rigth (vertical)

Question

Hi,

How to align components left to rigth with also vertical alignment:

when I do

@startuml
[A]
[B]
[C]
[D]
[E]
[F]

A->D
B->D
C->D
D->E
D->F
@enduml

http://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/png/YtQCvOfs0c9d87O1ObSWTelbudBKjNFXSW8HpY32HTVE5KIu0G00

I get: all component on the same row

but I would like to have the A,B,C in the same colunm then D and E,F on the same column

Thx

(btw: how to insert an screenshot in the message ?)

Answer 1

Hi,

We are facing some Graphviz/Dot limitation here.

You can use the "left to right direction" feature:

@startuml
left to right direction
[A]
[B]
[C]
[D]
[E]
[F]

A-->D
B-->D
C-->D
D-->E
D-->F
@enduml

I don't know if this is a possible solution for you

Comments

Yes, great, just what I wanted.
Thank you.

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WTF?! "left to right" makes it actually "top to down"...?

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Hello P.,

• What are your issues?

Here is the current output (click on the image to go to the source):

(Its depends perhaps of the graphviz version...)

Regards,
Th.