Add additional links to info on HTML labels

diff --git a/doc/info/attrs.html b/doc/info/attrs.html
index 1572aefd4c3409a3430ba96e5c1d6847ed50fd92..ec41cf7b3d74494d7a931fceca6040092e22dac8 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/info/attrs.html
+++ b/doc/info/attrs.html
@@ -2051,6 +2051,10 @@ the given types.
   <A HREF=shapes.html#polygon>polygon-based</A>,
   <A HREF=shapes.html#record>record-based</A> and
   <A HREF=shapes.html#epsf>user-defined</A>.
+  The record-based shape has largely been superseded and greatly generalized
+  by <A HREF=shapes.html#html>HTML-like labels</A>. 
+  That is, instead of using <TT>shape=record</TT>, one might
+  consider using <TT>shape=none</TT> and an HTML-like label.
 
 <DT><A NAME=k:smoothType><STRONG>smoothType</STRONG></A>
 <DD>Values are "none", "avg_dist", "graph_dist", "power_dist", "rng", 

diff --git a/doc/info/shapes.html b/doc/info/shapes.html
index b1c7be479db10a8b34dd0ee3f4d013ffc2cb2d70..3feb1261004fa70f590ce41bce91228ab382aa60 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/info/shapes.html
+++ b/doc/info/shapes.html
@@ -10,7 +10,16 @@
 <A NAME="top"></A>
 <H1 align=CENTER>Node Shapes</H1>
 <HR>
-The geometries of all node shapes are affected by
+There are three main types of shapes :
+<A HREF=shapes.html#polygon>polygon-based</A>,
+<A HREF=shapes.html#record>record-based</A> and
+<A HREF=shapes.html#epsf>user-defined</A>.
+The record-based shape has largely been superseded and greatly generalized
+by <A HREF=shapes.html#html>HTML-like labels</A>. 
+That is, instead of using <TT>shape=record</TT>, one might
+consider using <TT>shape=none</TT> and an HTML-like label.
+<P>
+The geometry and style of all node shapes are affected by
 the node attributes 
 <A HREF=attrs.html#d:fixedsize><TT>fixedsize</TT></A>, 
 <A HREF=attrs.html#d:fontname><TT>fontname</TT></A>, 

diff --git a/doc/infosrc/shapes.1 b/doc/infosrc/shapes.1
index 68ec3ec275c2f17a86564ab3ecf28c3df18bf907..1dcaa5bedc4ae358182147930d038318f7930748 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/infosrc/shapes.1
+++ b/doc/infosrc/shapes.1
@@ -10,7 +10,16 @@
 <A NAME="top"></A>
 <H1 align=CENTER>Node Shapes</H1>
 <HR>
-The geometries of all node shapes are affected by
+There are three main types of shapes :
+<A HREF=shapes.html#polygon>polygon-based</A>,
+<A HREF=shapes.html#record>record-based</A> and
+<A HREF=shapes.html#epsf>user-defined</A>.
+The record-based shape has largely been superseded and greatly generalized
+by <A HREF=shapes.html#html>HTML-like labels</A>. 
+That is, instead of using <TT>shape=record</TT>, one might
+consider using <TT>shape=none</TT> and an HTML-like label.
+<P>
+The geometry and style of all node shapes are affected by
 the node attributes 
 <A HREF=attrs.html#d:fixedsize><TT>fixedsize</TT></A>, 
 <A HREF=attrs.html#d:fontname><TT>fontname</TT></A>, 

diff --git a/doc/infosrc/types b/doc/infosrc/types
index 99cdc7a833d7f9bf585ab65ea0e450ce042188a7..baf10971aa55b1824e4ef0f5a4c8a0e626b99858 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/infosrc/types
+++ b/doc/infosrc/types
@@ -320,6 +320,10 @@ main types of shapes :
 <A HREF=shapes.html#polygon>polygon-based</A>,
 <A HREF=shapes.html#record>record-based</A> and
 <A HREF=shapes.html#epsf>user-defined</A>.
+The record-based shape has largely been superseded and greatly generalized
+by <A HREF=shapes.html#html>HTML-like labels</A>. 
+That is, instead of using <TT>shape=record</TT>, one might
+consider using <TT>shape=none</TT> and an HTML-like label.
 :startType
 has the syntax <TT>[<I>style</I>][<I>seed</I>]</TT>.
 <P>