# Graphviz Templates

**URL:** <https://forum.graphviz.org/t/graphviz-templates/169>\
**Category:** Show and Tell\
**Created:** [June 6, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://forum.graphviz.org/t/graphviz-templates/169 "2020-06-06T22:06:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![eyssette](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/graphviz/user_avatar/forum.graphviz.org/eyssette/32/103_2.png) [@eyssette](https://forum.graphviz.org/u/eyssette)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://forum.graphviz.org/t/graphviz-templates/169/1 "2020-06-06T22:06:36Z")

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Dear Graphviz community !  
I’m happy to share some templates i designed for Graphviz, that i use a lot, as a philosophy teacher.  
I have 4 templates for the moment : (i) a sort of mind map, (ii) a (rather complex) template to represent an argument, with objections, (iii) a visual summary of a paper, (iv) a template to represent a succession of conjectures and refutations.

[https://github.com/eyssette/graphviz-templates](https://github.com/eyssette/graphviz-templates)

I can give some examples of how i use these templates, if needed.

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**Author:** ![mark](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/graphviz/user_avatar/forum.graphviz.org/mark/32/84_2.png) [@mark](https://forum.graphviz.org/u/mark)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2020, 10:19pm UTC](https://forum.graphviz.org/t/graphviz-templates/169/2 "2020-06-06T22:19:50Z")

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Wow, I love this! What a fantastic application of graph visualization. Your templates look great, I particularly like the little details like rounded corners and subtle background colors.

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**Author:** ![eyssette](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/graphviz/user_avatar/forum.graphviz.org/eyssette/32/103_2.png) [@eyssette](https://forum.graphviz.org/u/eyssette)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.graphviz.org/t/graphviz-templates/169/3 "2020-06-07T14:31:35Z")

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Thank you !

I’ve created a repository on Github with some of my graphs : [GitHub - eyssette/graphviz-examples: Répertoire de schémas créés avec Graphviz](https://github.com/eyssette/graphviz-examples)  
It might help to understand how to use these templates.

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**Author:** ![wassfila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7bcc69/32.png) [@wassfila](https://forum.graphviz.org/u/wassfila)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 4:17pm UTC](https://forum.graphviz.org/t/graphviz-templates/169/4 "2020-06-07T16:17:11Z")

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Pas mal,  
I was just looking for examples, I’ll try to use some of yours and reference your github page.

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**Author:** ![wassfila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7bcc69/32.png) [@wassfila](https://forum.graphviz.org/u/wassfila)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.graphviz.org/t/graphviz-templates/169/5 "2020-06-07T17:39:17Z")

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Impressive how you managed to do that with graphviz. It’s really complex to get what you want by manipulating ghost edges and ghost groups.

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**Author:** ![Ooker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/graphviz/user_avatar/forum.graphviz.org/ooker/32/385_2.png) [@Ooker](https://forum.graphviz.org/u/Ooker)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.graphviz.org/t/graphviz-templates/169/6 "2022-02-18T10:21:32Z")

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For visualization tool specialized for arguments, have you looked at argdown? There are also OVA and Debategraph for large scale map too.

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**Author:** ![scnorth](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/graphviz/user_avatar/forum.graphviz.org/scnorth/32/89_2.png) [@scnorth](https://forum.graphviz.org/u/scnorth)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.graphviz.org/t/graphviz-templates/169/7 "2022-02-18T13:13:10Z")

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Wonder if we should include some external templates with graphviz, or build them in somehow, as this is a chronic issue.