[mcclim-devel] Problems getting "format-graph-from-roots" to work...

[Robert P. Goldman]

>>>>> "CR" == Christophe Rhodes <csr21 at cam.ac.uk> writes:

    CR> Peter Braroe <peter.braroe at newsmachine.com> writes:
    >> I have gotten slightly further in my ambition to make a clim program to
    >> draw tree diagrams. After looking at various examples I have put
    >> together a little program that gives the error below. 

    CR> I believe that the more complicated graph layouts (:digraph, maybe
    CR> :dag?) are currently unimplemented.  Try passing :graph-type :tree
    CR> explicitly to FORMAT-GRAPH-FROM-ROOTS.

Nothing except tree is currently supported.

    >> Also my clim package 0.9.1 does not seem to have
    >> "format-graph-from-root" (singular) only the "format-graph-from-roots"
    >> is this because the one root only version is not implemented? Does
    >> anyone know?

    CR> The singular FORMAT-GRAPH-FROM-ROOT appears not to be in the Clim II
    CR> specification.

Since it's so trivial, any reason not to support it, if only for
backward compatibility?

R