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Specifying the keyword parallel
in front of an element will make the
rest of the chart be drawn in parallel with it. To be more precise the effect only
lasts till the end of the scope, so elements after the next closing brace
will be drawn sequentially under49.
You can place parallel
in front of really any element, including
entity definitions or even series of parallel blocks. You can even combine several
elements using braces.
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This is how this works exactly: first, the
element marked with parallel
is placed. Then the rest of the elements
in the scope are placed below it and are moved as one block up at most to
the top of the element marked with parallel
. The move stops if any
element in the block being moved bumps into an already placed element,
thus overlaps are avoided.