How to control node placement in graphviz (i.e. avoid edge crossings)

Question

I\'m using graphviz (dot) to generate the graph you can see below. The node in the lower left corner (red ellipse) causes annoyance as its edges cross several edges of the adjac

Answer 1

@Jannis, in case you're still interested in an answer to this, there is actually a way to control individual node placement - you use the "pos" attribute:

http://www.graphviz.org/doc/info/attrs.html#d:pos

As an example of this, you could write:

n [pos="3,5!"];

That would force node n to be at precisely (3,5).

However, this only works with layout engines "fdp" and "neato".