Just wanted to let you know that I took a look at the patch and it looks
good.  However, before I started testing, I realized that my install is
currently not working.  

So if anyone else could take a look at this (apply the patch and see if
it works), I would be more than happy to commit it.

Ben

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 19:06 -0400, Hilmar Lapp wrote:
> The patches are attached.
> 
> The changes really only affect the resulting diagram produced through  
> graphviz. Hence, the test would need to run sqlt-graph and compare  
> expected images with observed ones - which is notoriously hairy to do  
> cross-platform. I didn't find any such test already in the package  
> that would prove the actual correctness of an image or diagram, but  
> maybe I've missed it?
> 
> A nice thing you can do with this is for example --graphattr  
> "rankdir=BT" which will render the graph bottom up, more along  
> traditional ERDs (see http://tinyurl.com/3cyx4o as an example).
> 
> Let me know if I can help any further.
> 
>       -hilmar
> 
> On Apr 28, 2007, at 8:18 AM, Jess Robinson wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Hilmar Lapp wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> when running sqlt-graph I got the ominous "Could not find/open font :
> >> Times-Roman" error from graphviz.
> >>
> >> Apparently on Mac OSX graphviz can't find the Times font unless you
> >> explicitly provide the full path as the fontname attribute (-
> >> Nfontname="/System/Library/Fonts/Times.dfont" when invoking dot, for
> >> example). (Also, this won't apply for ps output, obviously.)
> >>
> >> I noticed that there is no mechanism by which I can pass that through
> >> from sqlt-graph, and also I have no control over the node, edge, and
> >> graph attributes, so I went ahead and fixed all that. I have patches
> >> for bin/sqlt-graph and for S::T::P::GraphViz.pm. Do people want me to
> >> post these here to the mailing list or elsewhere, or do you want me
> >> to apply them directly?
> >>
> >>    -hilmar
> >> --  
> >> ===========================================================
> >> : Hilmar Lapp  -:-  Durham, NC  -:- hlapp at duke dot edu :
> >> ===========================================================
> >>
> >
> > Send the patches to the list please, including the relevant new  
> > tests to prove they work.
> >
> > Jess
> >
> 
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