Re: Linguists' trees and pdf

I'm in the same boat, Steve, and have several times been frustrated at 
not being able to use an appropriate font in a document that also 
contains trees. I'd also like to use the microtype package in documents 
with trees, but it too requires pdf.

Kyle


On Nov 17, 2004, at 9:03 PM, Stephen Anderson wrote:

> I use Emma Pease's wonderful tree-dvips package to draw trees and 
> similar diagrams in linguistics books and papers.  This emits raw 
> PostScript specials, which can be used to draw lines among the nodes 
> of a tree and also dotted, or curvy, or whatever lines with or without 
> arrows at the ends to indicate movement and the like.
>
> Unfortunately, the PostScript-dependent nature of this package makes 
> it incompatible with pdf based packages.  I suspect I am not the only 
> linguist to be frustrated at the difficulty of combining Emma's trees 
> with XeTeX, for instance, though I may have just misunderstood 
> something basic.
>
> So: does anyone know of a pdf equivalent to tree-dvips? (Note that 
> even if things like qtree were better at drawing trees than they are, 
> they would still require tree-dvips to add annotations like movement 
> arrows, at least at present.)
> --
> Steve Anderson
>
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