DRETODOT(1)

💖 DRETODOT 💖

okay so bestie, sit DOWN, because this is the manual page for dretodot 2.9.3 and she is iconic. 🌟

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dretodot [-S#:#ixF#o#m#n#r#:#[r#]d#g] [infile.dre [outfile.dot [outfile.dre]]]

like yes, that's a lot of flags in one little bracket. she's giving maximalist. we love her for it. 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So what does she DO? She reads graphs and initial coloring in dreadnaut format. that's the whole vibe. 🦋

Then she writes graphs in dot format to outfile.dot. cute. ✨

And if you also hand her an outfile.dre? she writes the input graph and the partition to outfile.dre — as modified by the -F and -i options, bestie, don't forget that part. and here's the slay: outfile.dre is allowed to be the same file as infile.dre. no cap. 🔥

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🎀 the options, one by one, no skipping 🎀

• -V — set the max number of vertices. default is 1000. 👑
• -E — set the max number of edges. default is 5000. 🌈
• -v — set verbose mode. default is NO. (so if you want the tea, you gotta ask for it 💀)
• -S#:# — set the maximum width and height of the drawing, in inches. default is 10 x 6.18. 📐
• -i — refine the partition before drawing. default is NO. 🧚
• -x — draw the orbit partition, computed by Traces. default is NO. ⭐
• -F# — individualize vertex # (and refine the partition). 🫶
• -o# — label vertices starting at #. default is 0. and lowkey important: this can be overridden in the input. 🙈
• -m# — set the drawing model (see http://www.graphviz.org):
  • 0 (or literally any value that isn't 1,...,5) = dot — this is the default, 0
  • 1 = neato
  • 2 = fdp
  • 3 = sfdp
  • 4 = twopi
  • 5 = circo
• -n# — scale the size of vertices in the drawing, where # is 0, 1, or 2. default is 1. 🍓
• -r#:# (-r#) — set the vertices to be drawn at the topmost level in a hierarchical (dot model) drawing. default is none. and bestie, you can stack these: any sequence of -r#:# (r#) options is allowed. 💜
• -d# — draw the graph induced by vertices at the topmost level and by vertices at distance # from them. example time:

./dretodot -n2 -r1 -r12:17 -d2 MyGraph.dre Outfile.dot

• -g — highlight the induced subgraph into the whole graph. 💖

⚠️ real talk: only the dreadnaut commands $,$$,g,n,f,",! are recognised. and no digraphs. periodt. 🚫

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👑 a lil sign-off 👑

this whole thing is dretodot version 2.9.3, dated September 2026. main character energy fr fr. go draw some graphs bestie, you're gonna ate 💅✨🎀🦋