You can position everything manually exactly where you want it in graphviz without any of those tricks by using the neato engine. I use scripts to manually pla

You can position everything manually exactly where you want it in graphviz without any of those tricks by using the neato engine. I use scripts to manually place everything from data in csv files. https://github.com/mathew-j-davis/boxesandarrows https://github.com/mathew-j-davis/boxesandarrows