I'm creating a graph using Graphviz (compiled with neato). This graph contains many overlapping nodes which is perfectly fine. However, there is a group of large nodes which I prefer to always be on top of other small nodes - even-though I prefer to define the large nodes first in the graph (which makes them get painted at the very bottom).
Any way I can force this?
Edit:
Here's a small example, just to clarify what I mean:
graph G {
node [style=filled,fillcolor=black];
BigNode [fillcolor=skyblue,shape=Msquare];
node [style=filled,fillcolor=red,shape=circle];
edge [style=invis]
1 -- BigNode[len=0.5];
2 -- BigNode[len=1];
}
I'd like for BigNode
to be painted over node 1
.
I did find one (sort of) solution...
I found that if you postpone only the node definition to the end, even if you defined edges for this node earlier, it will be painted top-most.
I realize this contradicts what I defined earlier, but this was the only possible solution in this case and it was the one I eventually had to use.
In my short example, you would do this:
graph G {
node[style=filled,fillcolor=black];
// Definition of BigNode moved to the end of the file
/*BigNode [fillcolor=skyblue,shape=Msquare];*/
node[style=filled,fillcolor=red,shape=circle];
edge[style=invis]
1 -- BigNode[len=0.5];
2 -- BigNode[len=1];
// Defined after already defining edges for BigNode
BigNode [fillcolor=skyblue,shape=Msquare];
}
In the resulting graph, BigNode
is painted over node 1