LingTrees Linguistics Tree-formatting Preprocessor and Macros Avery D Andrews, March 2006 Purpose: This is a LateX2e package for formatting linguistics trees (upside-down, hanging by the root, with slanted branches from mother to daughters), consisting of a prepreprocessor written in Python (freely downloadable from http://www.python.org or http://www.activestate.com; the latter might be easier to get working in Linux), and some LaTeX .sty files. The preprocessor allows trees to be entered as indented lists (no brackets to worry about), and also deploys line-drawing and various other commands. The macros are responsible for the details of positioning. Plain TeX is currently not supported. In addition to the preprocessor itself (trees.py), there's a simple GUI for running it by pushing a button in the GUI subdirectory. Free-standing executables for Windows may be found at: http://arts.anu.edu.au/Linguistics/People/AveryAndrews/Software/latex The package is probably most suitable for irregularly-branching trees with wide and complex node-labels, such as are prevalent for example in LFG and HPSG. Other packages that might be worth looking at are pst-jtree (good for heavily right-branching trees with small node-labels) and qtree (which works with pdflatex). It is an upwards-compatible successor to the 'trees' package at CTAN/latex209/contrib/pstrees/trees. Dependencies: It requires either the pst-nodes module of the PSTricks, or Emma Pease's tree-dvips (with less functionality), both available on CTAN. License: LaTeX macros: LaTeX Project Public License trees.py: GPL 2 Documentation: The documentation for the macros and preprocessor commands is in the file lingtrees.doc.pdf. pst-nodes is accessed thru a partial emulation of tree-dvips, documented in pst-tree-dvips-emu.doc.pdf. For more information, see READMORE.txt and the pdf documentation.