Tree-Drawing Programs

Mac and Windows

Arboreal ($20)

http://www.cascadilla.com/arboreal.html

This is a font. I've used it on both a Mac & on Windows and it is very good. You can do fancy things like encircle parts of the tree and draw arrows to indicate movement.

MathEQ ($69)

http://www.livemath.com/matheq/

Mac

Trees 2 ($25)

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kroch/Trees.html

I've used an earlier version of this program at Penn. You can literally see how the grammars you write generate trees and allow or disallow certain operations on the trees. Very neat. A review of the program, written by Colin Phillips, of U. of Maryland, College Park, for Glot International, can be found at http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kroch/trees/glot-review.html

Windows

Syntactica ($32)

http://semlab5.sbs.sunysb.edu/~rlarson/Syntactica/syntactica.html

Unix

Qtree (Free)

look for it at http://www.ling.upenn.edu/advice/latex.html#linguists

I've been using a version of this Latex tree package as a grad student and have been quite happy with it.

QobiTree (Free)

Downloadable at ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/tex/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/other/qobitree/

I've occasionally used this one too, but am not as familiar with it as the previous one.

Many more should be found on CTAN (the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) http://ctan.tug.org/

Web-based

InterArbora (Free of charge and no guarantees)

http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~jo/interarbora/

You provide the labeled bracketing & a graphic tree is generated that you can modify, and save as a postscript file to include in your document. I played with it some and it seems reasonable.

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Let me know if you have a favorite tree-drawing program you don’t see here so that I can include it.