https://github.com/notmatthancock/outline_to_dot

indented outline markup -> dot
https://github.com/notmatthancock/outline_to_dot

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indented outline markup -> dot

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/notmatthancock/outline_to_dot
• Owner: notmatthancock
• Created: 2015-07-06T02:16:06.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-07-08T03:13:25.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-05T08:24:07.845Z (4 months ago)
• Language: Python
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• Size: 169 KB
• Stars: 51
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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## Indented outline => dot

Convert a simple indented (markdown inspired) outline format to dot language.

Example input file:

    # This is a comment; blank lines get eaten.

    main

        # Default indent marker is 4 spaces. This can be changed.

        topic one

            subtopic one

        topic two

            subtopic one

            subtopic two

From the command line, running

    ./outline_to_dot.py input-file.txt

produces the output:

    digraph G {

        "main" -> "topic one";

        "topic one" -> "subtopic one";

        "main" -> "topic two";

        "topic two" -> "subtopic one";

        "topic two" -> "subtopic two";

    }

The default output is to standard out, but one can specify an output file with 

    ./outline_to_dot.py -o output-file.dot input-filt.txt

So then

    

    dot -Tpng -o output-graph.png output-file.dot

produces the following graph:

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/notmatthancock/outline_to_dot/master/example.png)

Another useful option is to maintain a strict tree structure in the output. This is specified as follows:

    ./outline_to_dot.py --tree=True input-file.txt

Using the same input as above, this produces a slightly different graph:

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/notmatthancock/outline_to_dot/master/example-tree-True.png)