Re: Connecting text with a line

[Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com>]

Hi, You will like this.

Get the Electric palette and bring out a "Connection point".  Place it where you want relative to the text.  Drag a box over them both and hit ctrl-G (for group).  You can connect the line to the connection point.  You can copy and paste the group to reproduce it and you can ungroup (ctrl-shift-G), move the point, group to relocate the point at will.  You can hide the point my making it the color of the background and move it behind the text (ctrl-shift-B). You can double click the ungrouped text and turn on or off the background and change its color.  You can group a box or other primitive function with the text as you desire.  The bezier region can be made in to any shape.

That should jump start you.

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Julian Hagenauer <hagenauer uni-heidelberg de> wrote:

Hi,
i want to draw a tree.
The nodes should be text, and lines should connect the nodes.
With dia it seems not possible to connect text with lines.
So, the only way arround it seems to be using simple boxes with text.
However, boxes have borders that i do not want.
Setting the linewidth of the border to 0 does not
keep dia from drawing the borders (a bug?)

Can you give me some advice, how i can link just text-labels with lines?

Thank you very much,
Julian
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