Tala improvement suggestion: reduce empty space

[judepayne]

Hi,
On large diagrams, Tala introduces quite a lot of empty space.
Would it be possible to introduce a setting to 'compress' the space?

[alixander]

most recent TALA release has an improvement related to this. can you try rerunning? (or post the script if it's still bad) @judepayne

[judepayne]

Thanks @alixander I have played with this and large diagrams like above that previously could have too much space, now have a lot less and look a lot better!

[judepayne]

Hi @alixander I closed this but just experimenting with generating random graphs and here's another one that seems to create a lot more empty space than strictly required:

bank: {
Funds: {
app8167: Data Source
app8169: Flame minor
app8171: Trade propel
}
Risk: {
app8164: Credit guard
}
Fixed Income: {
app8166: Data Source
app8170: Data Source
}
Corporate: {
app8168: Risk Sheet
app8172: Apac Ace
}
Equities: {
app8165: Book down
}
Finance: {
app8173: Zone out
}
}
bank.Corporate.app8168 -> bank.Corporate.app8168: client master
bank.Risk.app8164 -> bank.Corporate.app8172: allocations
bank.Risk.app8164 -> bank.Funds.app8169: instructions
bank.Risk.app8164 -> bank.Corporate.app8168: trades
bank.Funds.app8171 -> bank.Fixed Income.app8166: instructions
bank.Risk.app8164 -> bank.Risk.app8164: client master
bank.Funds.app8169 -> bank.Funds.app8167: instructions
bank.Fixed Income.app8170 -> bank.Corporate.app8172: positions
bank.Fixed Income.app8170 -> bank.Funds.app8167: security reference
bank.Fixed Income.app8170 -> bank.Fixed Income.app8166: instructions
bank.Funds.app8171 -> bank.Equities.app8165: positions
bank.Funds.app8171 -> bank.Funds.app8171: positions

[gavin-ts]

... here's another one

as a playground link:
https://play.d2lang.com/?script=jFNBTsMwELznFfMBohZKU3xAKoVKXCknbsZZwGpiG8cRINS_I6chdYJbcrO8O7OzM_YzV1uG7wRY1yqv9keAG7OYzjOGW-44No3soHDFsC54SSil0vZQyKYMj5bnBGO1oSIBdgnwIKttn3nGsLKUS4fXmtu87VvLT8pxr4Quqd8_P6IkmwwLnmelrdGWuwHJgjVKsHkjcgHHOcPScIFlR3D3XksnaWDHJcON1lvk-kN1ihVXoj8nu2B40oqga9e07RLvctqpSls5OLtGvMIgCknKoeSVI7vHe-1tw-wY1O_Ci0IL7j9LdQLYxJ12cUr_22rxHyqi1Pm8W0xAmk0Po4JY0y7PkRPDy6gtvUWi62WxYX9FZZNTrhpdybHwwfCKRG2l-4KlF7KkBI3hGGla3PLfB5x2L3eoP55UeBtifgIAAP__&layout=tala&

[alixander]

@gavin-ts i think our parameters just considers this okay. e.g. grid cell is large because of the containers. i suspect if we just lower the threshold it'll be okay