# Stupid Dot tricks
**URL:** https://forum.graphviz.org/t/stupid-dot-tricks/31
**Category:** Show and Tell
**Created:** [April 10, 2020, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.graphviz.org/t/stupid-dot-tricks/31 "2020-04-10T19:03:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@steveroush](https://forum.graphviz.org/u/steveroush)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2020, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.graphviz.org/t/stupid-dot-tricks/31/1 "2020-04-10T19:03:29Z")
Experimenting with stylized diagrams, I created a **gvpr** program that would post process an enhanced dot program, adding **row,** **column** , and **cellAdjust** (the last tweaks the position within the cell).
I use **dot** to establish all the standard attributes, then my **gvpr** program to reposition all the nodes, based on the new attributes, then **neato -n** to route edges and produce the output.
 
 
```
digraph rc {
graph[nodesep=.5]
node [style=filled fillcolor=white]
{
node [row=1]
a1 [col=1]
a2 [col=2]
a3 [col=3]
a5 [col=5 fillcolor=orange]
a6 [col=6 fillcolor=red]
}
{
node [row=2]
b1 [col=1]
b4 [col=4]
b5 [col=5]
}
{
node [row=3]
c1 [col=1]
c2 [col=2]
}
{
node [row=4]
d4 [col=4 fillcolor=yellow]
d5 [col=5]
}
}
digraph circles {
graph[nodesep=.5]
{
node [row=2 shape=circle style=filled]
// sequence matters
large [col=2 label="" width=1.5 fillcolor=red]
medium [col=2 label="" width=1 fillcolor=green]
small [col=2 label="ok" width=.5 fillcolor=blue fontcolor=white]
x1 [row=4 col=4 fillcolor=orange]
x2 [row=4 col=7 fillcolor=lightblue]
x3 [row=3 col=1 fillcolor=purple]
}
large->x1
medium->x2
small->x3
}
digraph circles {
graph[nodesep=.5]
node [row=3 shape=circle style=filled]
// sequence matters
large [col=3 label="" width=1.5 fillcolor=red]
medium [col=3 label="" width=1 fillcolor=green]
small [col=3 label="" width=.5 fillcolor=blue]
t1 [col=3 label="" width=.3 fillcolor=orange cellAdjust=n]
t2 [col=3 label="" width=.3 fillcolor=purple cellAdjust=e]
t3 [col=3 label="" width=.3 fillcolor=pink cellAdjust=sw]
t4 [col=3 label="" width=.3 fillcolor=yellow cellAdjust=se]
node [row=3 shape=square style=filled]
// sequence matters
large2 [col=5 label="" width=1.5 fillcolor=red]
node [row=3 shape=star style=filled]
medium2 [col=5 label="" width=1 fillcolor=green]
node [row=3 shape=circle style=filled]
small2 [col=5 label="" width=.5 fillcolor=blue]
t12 [col=5 label="" width=.3 fillcolor=orange cellAdjust=n]
t22 [col=5 label="" width=.3 fillcolor=purple cellAdjust=e]
t32 [col=5 label="" width=.3 fillcolor=pink cellAdjust=sw]
t42 [col=5 label="" width=.3 fillcolor=yellow cellAdjust=se]
node [row=3 shape=square style=filled]
// sequence matters
large3 [col=7 label="" width=1.5 fillcolor=red]
node [row=3 shape=star style=filled]
medium3 [col=7 label="" width=1 fillcolor=green]
node [row=3 shape=circle style=filled]
small3 [col=7 label="" width=.5 fillcolor=blue]
t13 [col=7 label="" width=.3 fillcolor=orange cellAdjust=n]
node [row=3 shape=circle style=filled]
t23 [col=7 label="" width=.3 fillcolor=purple cellAdjust=e]
node [row=3 shape=triangle style=filled]
t33 [col=7 label="" width=.3 fillcolor=pink cellAdjust=sw]
node [row=3 shape=octagon style=filled]
t43 [col=7 label="" width=.3 fillcolor=yellow cellAdjust=se]
}
```
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### Author:  [@magjac](https://forum.graphviz.org/u/magjac)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2020, 10:13am UTC](https://forum.graphviz.org/t/stupid-dot-tricks/31/2 "2020-04-11T10:13:02Z")
Thanks for the contribution @steveroush and welcome to the forum 😃.
I haven’t used **gvpr** myself. What does the **gvpr** program that creates this look like?
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### Author:  [@steveroush](https://forum.graphviz.org/u/steveroush)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2020, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.graphviz.org/t/stupid-dot-tricks/31/4 "2020-04-14T18:54:25Z")
That program is a work-in-progress (currently broken) (feature creep).
If you are interested in gvpr programs in general, you can find them here (maybe) in a Linux install: **/usr/share/graphviz/gvpr/** or here if you built your own from git: **…/cmd/gvpr/lib/**
Here is a little program that counts nodes, edges and the number of characters in the node and edge labels:
```
BEGIN {
int nodeCnt=0, edgeCnt=0, nodeLabelCharCnt=0, edgeLabelCharCnt=0;
}
N {
nodeCnt++;
nodeLabelCharCnt+=length($.label);
}
E {
edgeCnt++;
edgeLabelCharCnt+=length($.label);
}
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
END_G{
print ("Total nodes: ", nodeCnt);
print ("Total edges: ", edgeCnt);
print ("Total node label character count: ", nodeLabelCharCnt);
print ("Total edge label character count: ", edgeLabelCharCnt);
}
```