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From: teexdwu@ioe.lon.ac.uk (DOMINIK WUJASTYK)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Hierarchical trees (request)
Message-ID: <1991Jan13.005051.28338@ioe.lon.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Jan 91 00:50:51 GMT
References: <MERNST.91Jan11023825@emu.lcs.mit.edu>
Reply-To: teexdwu@ioe.lon.ac.uk (DOMINIK WUJASTYK)
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In article <MERNST.91Jan11023825@emu.lcs.mit.edu> mernst@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Michael Ernst) writes:
>I'm looking for a macro that will let me draw hierarchical trees in the
>style of genealogical, organizational, or parse charts.  I'd like to get
>
>                                A
>                                |
>                --------------------------------
>                |                        |     |
>                B                        J     K
>                |                              |
>  --------------------------------             L
>  |       |         |            |             |
>  C       D         E            I          -------
>                    |                       |     |
>              ------------                  M     N
>	      |     |    |
>	      F     G    H
>
>from the "obvious" input, say
>
>\tree{A}[\tree{B}[C,D,\tree{E}[F,G,H],I],J,\tree{K}[\tree{L}[M,N]]]

There's a file chomsky.tex that is in the standard TeX archives and
will do exactly what you want.

Dominik