I’m using dot to re-create handwritten trees, and there are two little things that would make it better: Can I change the text color within a node? (Edit: Yes! with HTML-like labels .) I want to add special characters, like schwa and vowels with macrons. (I checked HTML resources, and it doesn’t lo…

For the special characters, can you put them directly in your source file? Should “just work” if the source file is UTF8 encoded

That would be great. I’m gonna need specifics; I’ve tried a lot of things and none of them work. What (Windows) program do I use to edit the source file and how do I make sure it’s a UTF8 format?

digraph nota { rankdir=LR { rank=same A [label="Entered using Notepad"] B [label="schwa using html encoding: Ə and ə"] D [label="Masron examples: Ā ē ū ǡ Ӣ "] x1[label="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C6%8F"] x2[label="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macr…

As noted, you can use special, non-ascii characters without using HTML-like labels. You can use the UTF-8 encoding explicitly, but as some of the bytes are not ascii, this can be cumbersome depending on the text editor you use. You can avoid non-ascii characters entirely either by using the numeric …

For whatever reason, pasting characters into Notepad and saving works now. The references on this page also work: Character Entities | Graphviz (That page links to two pages on w3.org : the first has the same information, but the second (“an official version of this reference”) is not the same at all…

[image] milliliter: The references on this page also work: Character Entities | Graphviz (That page links to two pages on w3.org : the first has the same information, but the second (“an official version of this reference”) is not the same at all and not useful for GV.) Thanks for the feedback…

I wonder if we should stop documenting these entity references and encourage UTF-8 instead, now that UTF-8 is near-universal.

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mark July 23, 2020, 9:14am 7

Thanks for the feedback. I’ve removed the second link: Update char.html - remove link to list of named chars (!182) · Merge requests · graphviz / graphviz.gitlab.io · GitLab

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