Rank separation bug in automatic layout ?
 

It seems that the rank separation setting is not always equally applied by Automatic Layout to all levels of a hierarchical diagram.

In the attached, Rank Separation is set to 0.7cm, and this is mostly applied, but the separation between ranks 4 and 5 is about twice as big as that between the other ranks ...

Perhaps I am missing something, (a template effect perhaps ?), but this looks like a bug, and I'm not sure how to correct it – there appears to be only one global [I]rank separation[/I] setting ...

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( I have sent a report to the OG Ninjas )

This has been confirmed as a bug in OG's automatic layout code.

Ver 0.81 and onwards of the [URL="http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=22521"]Tree Tool[/URL] script can now correct this – restoring all row gaps to the exact [I]rank separation[/I] value specified in OG's [I]automatic layout[/I] inspector.

To use the script to simply fix the row gaps in [I]Automatic Layout[/I]'s own output, without converting the tree to an orthogonal layout (parents centered over children), use the [I]c=false[/I] switch.

([URL="http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=22521"]Tree Tool[/URL] can also be used to rapidly change shape size, row and object gaps, magnets, link type, fill, stroke, shadow etc.)