Bart Bunting writes: > Hi Eric, > > Thanks very much for the suggestion! > > I'm not familiar with dot but will invest some time to see if I can get > my head around it. > > This sounds like a good solution. Perhaps just writing directly in dot > will solve my problem. Possibly, although as it is possibly nicer to work with org tables, and because my train was delayed 45 minutes on the way to work this morning, here (attached as an org file with babel emacs lisp code) is one attempt at a solution. There is one bug in this code: for some reason, the dot code generated by the emacs lisp code gets embedded in an org EXAMPLE block. Not sure why but I have to do something else now... I'll try to come back to this later. Oh, I also changed your table so that each next step takes up a column entry in the table. This is not ideal but I didn't want to bother parsing the actual table entries.