NAME

       dotty - A Customizable Graph Editor

SYNOPSIS

       dotty [ -V ] [ -lmmode ] [ -ellev ] [ file ]

DESCRIPTION

       dotty is a graph editor for the X Window System.  It may be run as a standalone editor, or as a front end
       for applications that use graphs.  It can control multiple windows viewing different graphs.

       dotty is written on top of dot and lefty.  lefty is a general-purpose programmable editor  for  technical
       pictures.   It  has  an  interpretive  programming language similar to AWK and C.  The user interface and
       graph editing operations of dotty are written as lefty functions.   Programmer-defined  graph  operations
       may be loaded as well.  Graph layouts are made by dot, which runs as a separate process that communicates
       with lefty through pipes.

       If the input graph contains xdot attributes, dotty will use that to display the graph. Otherwise, it runs
       dot to obtain layout information.

USAGE

       The file name is optional. If present, the graph contained in that file is displayed in the dotty window.

OPTIONS

       -V     Prints the version.

       -lmmode
              Sets the layout mode. The mode can be sync or async. The default is async.

       -ellev Sets the mesage level. The lev can be 0 or 1. The default is 0.

BUGS

       The lefty parser does not accept anonymous graphs.

SEE ALSO

       dot(1), lefty(1), lneato(1), xdot(3)
       dotty user guide.

                                                                                                        DOTTY(1)