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.TH MARIA-VIS 1 "August 10, 2001"
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.SH NAME
maria-vis \- graph visualization script for maria
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B maria-vis
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents brie\(fly the
.B maria-vis
command.
.PP
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\fBmaria-vis\fP is a \fBlefty\fP script invoked by \fBmaria\fP in
order to visually present information to the user.  The script reads
commands and directives from standard input and may write \fBmaria\fP
query language commands to standard output.  An end-of-file condition
on standard input terminates the script.
.br
The script is built on top of the \fBdotty\fP script that is part of
the GraphViz package.  The commands prefixed with \fBvisual\fP in
\fBmaria\fP issue two kinds of commands to this script: \fInew();\fP
or \fIadd();\fP followed by a newline character and a graph definition
in the \fBdot\fP input language.  The \fInew\fP function in the script
displays the graph in a new window, while the \fIadd\fP function
copies information from the graph to the last modified graph.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR dot (1),
.BR dotty (1),
.BR lefty (1),
.BR maria (1).
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Marko M\(:akel\(:a <msmakela@tcs.hut.fi>.
The \fBmaria-vis\fP script and the visualization option were designed
and implemented by
.B Marko M\(:akel\(:a.
Please see the copyright file in
.I /usr/share/doc/maria
for details.