Re: [igraph] Dot labels with newlines

[Tamás Nepusz]

Hi Justin,

This bug has been fixed in the most recent revision. The fix will be included 
in the next minor release of igraph.

Cheers,
Tamas

On 2 Feb 2012, at 18:03, Justin McCann wrote:

> Does anyone have any recommendations for putting newlines (\n) into
> labels in a way that will make dot happy?
> 
> Whenever I call g.write_dotfile(filename) with a graph that contains
> labels with newlines, the string formatting gets in the way a little
> bit.
> 
> For example
>   v['label'] = "foo\nbar"
> 
> Ends up getting rendered in the dot file as
>   1 [label="foo
> bar"]
> 
> which Dot doesn't like, and truncates at the end of the line (just
> "foo" gets rendered).
> 
> If I try
>   v['label'] = r"foo\nbar"
> or
>   v['label'] = "foo\\nbar"
> 
> the dotfile ends up with
>  1 [label="foo\\nbar"]
> 
> Which dot renders as the string "foo\nbar" in the resulting graph image file.
> 
> I've also tried HTML-formatted labels, but igraph puts them into the
> dotfile in double-quotes, and it needs to be in curly braces for HTML
> rendering.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
>    Justin
> 
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