mmsyn4-0.1.5.0: README
Usage
1. After installation the executable mmsyn4 is created.
Afterwards, it is used to process files. So, open an
office spreadsheet program, e. g. LibreOffice Calc.
2. Begin to enter the text in the cells. You can use
Unicode characters. No quotation marks should be used,
instead use some special delimiter except '@' sign.
3. Do not use colons, instead when needed switch to the
nearest cell to the right.
4. To make a text visually highlighted (yellowish), start
the cell with an ’@’ sign.
5. Lines in the table create different chains in the
resulting graph. To produce an arrow to the text in the
cell, enter it in the next cell in the row to the right.
6. To make several arrows from the cell, switch to the
next cell to the right for this parent one (the cell that
will be a parent for several other cells), enter needed
new texts there and in the located below cells.
7. Usually, you can search the needed text with Ctrl+F if
needed.
8. Empty lines in the table do not influence the resulting
visualization. Above each line, except the first one,
there must be at least one filled cell. It must be
located above the text on the new line or even further
to the right above. Otherwise, the program will
produce no reasonably useful output.
9. After entering all the text, export the sheet as an
1.csv file using colons (':') as separator in the working
directory. Otherwise, the program won’t work.
10. Run the appropriate executable mmsyn4 in the terminal
or from the command line while being in the directory
with the 1.csv file. Enter a word name of the .csv file
to be saved. DO use alphanumeric symbols and dashes if
needed. Then specify the needed splines and visualization
schemes by specifying the appropriate characters in the
terminal. You will specify additionally whether you
would like to remove '@' sign from the resulting .gv
file and from the vizualization itself. Please, note
that if entered 'y' the program automatically
removes all the '@' from the .gv and visualization.
For more information, see the GraphViz
documentation.
11. Your first visualization is then created.
12. Save the spreadsheet document as a spreadsheet file.
13. Repeat the steps from 2 to 12 as needed to produce
more visualizations.
14. Afterwards, you have a list of svg files, a list of .gv
files as source files for Graphviz, and a list of csv
files, and a saved spreadsheet file. Then you can use
the produced visualizations for some other documents.