From: north Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:03:48 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Mention graphviz-devel, and spline routing issues affect circo, fdp, twopi X-Git-Tag: LAST_LIBGRAPH~32^2~6910 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ab1defb1df8d1db4cf6ea92d8f39891e5cff182a;p=graphviz Mention graphviz-devel, and spline routing issues affect circo, fdp, twopi as well as neato. --- diff --git a/doc/FAQ.html b/doc/FAQ.html index 5a11c3596..983e8aa14 100644 --- a/doc/FAQ.html +++ b/doc/FAQ.html @@ -49,12 +49,16 @@ about spam. We also run anti-spam filters, and rewrite @ as at to keep verbatim addresses out of the archive.

Please, please, please, do not torment the mailing list with beginner's -questions or software build problems. First, check this FAQ and the +questions. First, check this FAQ and the -message archive carefully. +message archive carefully. Because Graphviz software is made available without charge, -our resources for routine support are very limited. If you are desperate, -please contact ellson, erg, or north@research.att.com. +our resources for routine support are very limited. +If you run into software build problems with the ``stable'' release, +you could also try the current development snapshot. +If you are desperate, or better yet, if you have constructive advice, +please send a message to the graphviz-devel mailing list. +(Note that our local buildlogs are also online.)

Also, if a program crashes or you get an abort or something strange occurs and you are fairly comfortable using the tools: @@ -560,6 +564,7 @@ neato -Gmaxiter=500

Note that, if you have a large graph, the generation of edges as splines is a cubic algorithm, so you would do well to avoid using splines=true. +(This commment applies to circo, fdp and twopi as well.)

Q. Edge label placement in neato is bad.