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connectors section

This section immediately follows the node section and is optional. Connectors are specified after the node placement section starting with the unindented header connectors followed by one or more connector placement specifications. If your model doesn’t need any connections, Flatland is happy to just print isolated nodes. If you don’t have any connection specifications, be sure to leave out the unindented connectors keyword as well.

A connector is an arrangement of one or more contiguous line segments that attach to one or more nodes. Flatland supports four kinds of connectors: unary, binary, ternary and tree (n-ary, hierarchical).

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Since the ternary connector is dependent on an existing binary connector, it is an optional component of the binary connector specification where a third node is included.

At present unary branches haven’t been tested since they are not used in class diagrams (the only diagram type currently working). So we’ll skip those for now and focus on binary, ternary and tree connectors.