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We show that every c-planar clustered graph has a straight-line c-planar drawing in which each cluster is represented by an axis-parallel rectangle, thus solving a problem posed by Eades, Feng, Lin, and Nagamochi (Algorithmica 44(1):1–32, 2006).
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Angelini, P., Frati, F. & Kaufmann, M. Straight-Line Rectangular Drawings of Clustered Graphs. Discrete Comput Geom 45, 88–140 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-010-9302-z
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