You can also set: layout = neato; in a dot file, call dot, and it will use the neato layout engine. (See https://graphviz.org/docs/attrs/layout/ https://

You can also set: layout = neato; in a dot file, call dot, and it will use the neato layout engine. (See https://graphviz.org/docs/attrs/layout/ https://graphviz.org/docs/attrs/layout/) And if I look in my /usr/bin, I see that neato is just symlinked to dot. It's pulling the usual trick of one executable that behaves slightly differently depending on the invocation name.