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<H1 align=CENTER>Node Shapes</H1>
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There are three main types of shapes :
<A HREF=shapes.html#polygon>polygon-based</A>,
<A HREF=shapes.html#record>record-based</A> and
<A HREF=shapes.html#epsf>user-defined</A>.
The record-based shape has largely been superseded and greatly generalized
by <A HREF=shapes.html#html>HTML-like labels</A>. 
That is, instead of using <TT>shape=record</TT>, one might
consider using <TT>shape=none</TT>, <TT>margin=0</TT> and an HTML-like label.
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The geometry and style of all node shapes are affected by
the node attributes 
<A HREF=attrs.html#d:fixedsize><TT>fixedsize</TT></A>, 
<A HREF=attrs.html#d:fontname><TT>fontname</TT></A>, 
<A HREF=attrs.html#d:fontsize><TT>fontsize</TT></A>, 
<A HREF=attrs.html#d:height><TT>height</TT></A>,
<A HREF=attrs.html#d:label><TT>label</TT></A>, 
<A HREF=#d:style><TT>style</TT></A> and
<A HREF=attrs.html#d:width><TT>width</TT></A>.

<H2><A NAME=polygon>Polygon-based Nodes</A></H2>
The possible polygon-based shapes are displayed below.
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