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NAME

       smyrna - interactive graph viewer

SYNOPSIS

       smyrna [ -v?  ] [ file ]

DESCRIPTION

       smyrna  is  a viewer for graphs in the DOT format.  It is especially designed to handle large graphs, and
       allows flat and topological fisheye views.  It is  assumed  the  input  graph  has  position  information
       associated with all nodes. Using the Graphviz convention, a node's position is given by its pos attribute
       consisting of 2 or 3 floating point numbers separated by commas.  Nodes are drawn as points and edges  as
       line segments.

       If smyrna detects that the file contains xdot attributes, it will use this information when drawing nodes
       and edges.

       smyrna supports panning and zooming; node and edge  selection;  setting  and  retrieving  node  and  edge
       attributes,  especially  colors; and node movement.  The Smyrna Settings dialogue box available under the
       Edit pull-down menu gives the user many choices for tailoring the graph view. These  include  whether  or
       not  nodes/edges are drawn; what labels are associated with nodes/edges; node size; transparency settings
       for nodes/edges; parameters associated with the topological fisheye view.

       For the purposes of exploratory data analysis, smyrna provides access to the gvpr  library.  This  allows
       the  user to arbitrarily query, filter or manipulate a graph. When filtering or manipulating a graph, the
       user has the option of performing the changes directly on the input graph, or to  create  a  new  version
       with the changes.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -v     Verbose mode.

       -?     Print usage information.

       By default, gc returns the number of nodes and edges.

OPERANDS

       The following operand is supported:

       file    Name  of  file  containing  a graph in DOT format.  If no file operand is specified, the user can
               employ the File pull-down menu to select a file to be opened.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0   Successful completion.

       1   If no No appropriate OpenGL-capable visual found, or if the default attributes template graph file or
           the default attributes widget graph file could not be read.

FILES

       smyrna  relies  on  numerous  support  files.  These are usually installed in the "share/graphviz/smyrna"
       directory below the installation root. The principal files are:

       template.dot
              A file in DOT format specifying the default smyrna settings.  In particular,  these  are  used  to
              initialize the settings of the Smyrna Settings dialogue box.

       mouse_actions.txt
              A  text file specifying the mapping of concrete mouse and keyboard events with smyrna actions such
              as panning and selecting.

       attr_widgets.dot
              A file in DOT format specifying the bindings between GUI widgets and smyrna parameters.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       SMYRNA_PATH
              allows a user to override the built-in path to the directory  containing  all  of  smyrna's  files
              described above.

AUTHOR

       Arif Bilgin <arif@research.att.com>
       Emden R. Gansner <erg@research.att.com>

SEE ALSO

       gvpr(1), dotty(1), libcgraph(3)
       "Smyrna Tutorial and Reference Manual"

                                                 9 December 2009                                           GC(1)