DOT

DOT is a text markup language created in 2007.

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DOT is a plain text graph description language. DOT graphs are typically files with the file extension gv or dot. The extension gv is preferred to avoid confusion with the extension dot used by early (pre-2007) versions of Microsoft Word. Read more on Wikipedia...

DOT Wikipedia page
DOT docs
There are at least 27,831 DOT repos on GitHub
DOT first developed in AT&T Labs Research
file extensions for DOT include dot and gv
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 67 users using DOT in 68 repos on GitHub
ANTLR grammar for DOT
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for DOT
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for DOT
There is 1 Jupyter Kernel for DOT
See also: (6 related languages)JavaScript, Java, Python, Google Cloud Platform, ActionScript, SVG
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Example from the web:

 // The graph name and the semicolons are optional
graph graphname {
    a -- b -- c;
    b -- d;
}

Example from Linguist:

/* 
  Huffman Tree DOT graph.

  DOT Reference :  http://www.graphviz.org/doc/info/lang.html
                   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_language
  Timestamp     :  1415989074 
  Phrase        :  'OH GOD WHY IS LINGUIST SO ANAL ABOUT THIS STUFF'

  Generated on http://huffman.ooz.ie/
*/

digraph G {
    edge [label=0];
    graph [ranksep=0];
    T [shape=record, label="{{T|4}|000}"];
    S [shape=record, label="{{S|5}|001}"];
    SPACE [shape=record, label="{{SPACE|9}|01}"];
    A [shape=record, label="{{A|3}|1000}"];
    H [shape=record, label="{{H|3}|1001}"];
    U [shape=record, label="{{U|3}|1010}"];
    L [shape=record, label="{{L|2}|10110}"];
    N [shape=record, label="{{N|2}|10111}"];
    I [shape=record, label="{{I|4}|1100}"];
    O [shape=record, label="{{O|4}|1101}"];
    G [shape=record, label="{{G|2}|11100}"];
    F [shape=record, label="{{F|2}|11101}"];
    GF [label=4];
    W [shape=record, label="{{W|1}|111100}"];
    Y [shape=record, label="{{Y|1}|111101}"];
    B [shape=record, label="{{B|1}|111110}"];
    D [shape=record, label="{{D|1}|111111}"];
    BD [label=2];
    WYBD [label=4];
    GFWYBD [label=8];
    47 -> 18 -> 9 -> T;
    29 -> 13 -> 6 -> A;
    7 -> U;
    4 -> L;
    16 -> 8 -> I;
    GFWYBD -> GF -> G;
    WYBD -> 2 -> W;
    BD -> B;9 -> S [label=1];
    18 -> SPACE [label=1];
    6 -> H [label=1];
    13 -> 7 -> 4 -> N [label=1];
    8 -> O [label=1];
    GF -> F [label=1];
    2 -> Y [label=1];
    47 -> 29 -> 16 -> GFWYBD -> WYBD -> BD -> D [label=1];
}

Example from Wikipedia:

digraph g {
	node [shape=plaintext];
	A1 -> B1;
	A2 -> B2;
	A3 -> B3;
	
	A1 -> A2 [label=f];
	A2 -> A3 [label=g];
	B2 -> B3 [label="g'"];
	B1 -> B3 [label="(g o f)'" tailport=s headport=s];

	{ rank=same; A1 A2 A3 }
	{ rank=same; B1 B2 B3 } 
}

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
MultiLine Comments	✓	/* */	/* A comment */
Comments	✓		// A comment
Line Comments	✓	//	// A comment
Semantic Indentation	X

title	authors	year	citations
Inductive Synthesis of Dot Expressions	A. Brazma	1991	7
Model Development of Quantum Dot Devices for γ Radiation Detection Using Block Diagram Programming	I. Mahmoud and M. S. Eltokhy and H. A. Konber	2011	2
ιDOT: a DOT calculus with object initialization	Ifaz Kabir and Yufeng Li and O. Lhoták	2020	2
Block diagram modeling of quantum dot infrared photodetectors	M. S. Eltokhy and I. Mahmoud and H. A. Konber	2011	1

DOT - Text markup language

Language features

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