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Diagrams 2002: Diagrammatic Representation and Inference pp 106–108Cite as

Grammar-Based Layout for a Visual Programming Language Generation System

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This paper presents a global layout approach used in a generalpurpose visual language generation system system. Our approach is grammarbased graph drawing, in which layout rules are embedded in the productions of reserved graph grammars. Thus, the grammar formalism serves both the visual language grammar and the layout grammar. An example visual language is demonstrated.

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  1. Department of Computing, ICS, Macquarie University, 2109, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Ke-Bing Zhang & Mehmet A. Orgun

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, 75083-0688, Richardson, TX, USA

    Kang Zhang

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  1. University of California, 93106, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    Mary Hegarty

  2. School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Clayton Campus, Wellington Road, 3800, Victoria, Australia

    Bernd Meyer

  3. Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Auburn University, 107 Dunstan Hall, 36849, Auburn, AL, USA

    N. Hari Narayanan

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Zhang, KB., Zhang, K., Orgun, M.A. (2002). Grammar-Based Layout for a Visual Programming Language Generation System. In: Hegarty, M., Meyer, B., Narayanan, N.H. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2317. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46037-3_13

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