Tree drawing tutorial

This handout was developed for University of Maryland's LING 311 class, in spring 2020, as a tutorial on how to draw trees on the computer.

It is a substantially revised version of a tutorial that Diogo Almeida originally wrote in fall 2006.

Feel free to fork this repository and open a pull request if you see ways that these materials could be improved. You're also welcome to open a GitHub issue.

Another good (more advanced) resource for drawing trees is Alan Munn's "Using Overleaf to make Trees" tutorial.

Compiling

In order to compile the file tree-drawing-tutorial.tex, you will need to do the following things:

• Install Pygments. If you have pip installed, you can just do pip install Pygments. See the minted documentation for more information.
• Compile the file with shell escape enabled. Also see the minted documentation for more information.
• Either change the font that the document uses or download and install the Adobe Garamond Pro font on your machine.
• Either change the bibliography style or install S&P's Biblatex implementation of the Unified Stylesheet for Linguistics Journals.

While not necessary to succesfully compile the document, if you'd like the git information in the footer to be typeset correctly, you will also need to:

• Install the three required hooks into the .git/hooks/ directory. This can be done via the install-git-hooks.sh script on a *nix system with ./circle-ci-setup/install-git-hooks.sh. Then do git checkout master. (The git information for insertion into the document is generated anytime a checkout, commit, or merge occurs.)

History

For a list of changes, see the changelog. For PDFs of older releases of this document, see the releases.

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.