{trees} is for questions about drawing or constructing tree {diagrams} (for example, family trees).

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How can we draw a Christmas tree with decorations, using TikZ?

I would like to use TikZ for drawing a christmas tree. Here's a start, I used the lindenmayersystems library for drawing a tree: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} ...
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Drawing a directory listing a la the tree command in TikZ

Good day everyone - Is there a fast and efficient way to draw directory tree structures (aka depth-indented listings) like the unix's tree command, that is, is there a way to draw the following using ...
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How to draw syntactical trees with parallel leafs for a natural language?

I need to draw syntactical trees for a natural language. The problem is that I need all the leafs to be parallel. How the other nodes are sorted in relation to the other at the same depth is not ...
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How can I improve this family tree in TikZ?

To answer a question about how to draw family tree on LaTeX-Community.org, I created an example: \documentclass{minimal} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{trees} \begin{document} ...
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Making a (simple) directory tree

I'm trying to make a simple directory tree representation in LaTeX. Something like: spam | +-- ham +-- eggs | +-- more spam +-- dead parrots The tree won't be that long (say, ...
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How do I draw a B+ tree in latex?

Is there some way to draw a B+ tree in latex? It would look something like the picture below (ignoring the animations) Animation linked here: http://i.stack.imgur.com/JRcmY.gif Screenshot of the ...
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Probability Tree-diagram with TikZ

Thanks for helping me out. How can I make the following tree-diagrams? http://www.vias.org/tmdatanaleng/cc_prob_cond_independ.html
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How can I draw simple trees in LaTeX?

I need to draw a tree, and constantly using dotty and including the PNGs is starting to be a pain. Is there a way to get LaTeX to draw it's own trees that doesn't involve learning an entirely new ...
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How to draw up a hierarchical tree diagram for taxonomic classification

Please show me the most simple, elegant code for this: How to do it in other words.
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How to change the level distance in tikz-qtree for one level only?

I am trying to draw a tree for a game theory problem. The problem is that the label p1=0.5 crosses label I. I would like to adjust the level distance of the first level, but the \tikzset{level ...
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How to automatically draw a graph in LaTeX

clarification: when I say "graph", I mean the computer science term. I want to draw a full binary tree of h height. It means that there's one root with two sons, each son has two sons and so forth. ...
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How two connect any arbitrary nodes of tree in tikz

I need to be able to connect any arbitrary nodes in a tree to each other. I am using the tree package in tikz to create my tree. I cannot figure out though how to connect to nodes by let say a draw ...
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Triangle node with adjustable height

I'm trying to draw AVL trees with TikZ, what I need is: Binary tree with simple circle nodes, and adjustable height triangle (or rectangle) nodes for subtrees, both containing only single ...
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beamer & TikZ: gradually unveil trees

Imagine a simple tree: \begin{tikzpicture} \node {Selbstregulation} [edge from parent fork down] child {node {Kognition}} child {node {Metakognition} child {node {Planung}} ...
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Aligning trees built with tikzpicture

I want to align some trees I am creating. I want the root node of all the trees to be on the same line. Currently for each tree I create, the root node of each subsequent tree is on a line after the ...
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Is it possible to emulate qtree with forest?

This question was actually asked by Alan Munn in a comment to How do I create a LCM tree diagram?. I repeat (and self-answer) it here because the answer is too long to fit the margin :-) qtree is a ...
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How to control spacing in a TikZ tree?

I want to draw a tree and I don't know how to enforce the spacing between them. Some are overlapping. This is my code: \begin{tikzpicture} \tikzstyle{every node}=[circle,draw] \node {A} child { node ...
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How to specify left and right node of a tikz-qtree

I'm drawing a binary tree using tikz-qtree. In my binary tree the order of children is important, so I need distinguish which edge is the left one and the right one. In my sample code I can't ...
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How to fix the overlapped nodes with long text, in TikZ. Concept maps

I'd like to get helping from you. I want to have paragraphs in the nodes of the concept map with Tikz, I mean, texts with multiple lines. I have a problem with texts, the nodes are overlapped. Here's ...
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Using beamer overlays with forest generated trees

I am using the forest package from Sašo Živanović in order to create a wide tree on a beamer slide. Previously, I was using qtree. But due to the easier way of arranging nodes automatically with ...
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How to draw a horizontal tree with branches on the right and left?

I need to draw trees but they should extend (from the root) on both sides. TikZ seems a good solution but do not how to manage it.
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Visualizing broad Tikz tree graph

Modules of software I created produce Tikz QTree diagrams for visualisation. The problem is that some trees grow quite broad... Even when I try to massively shrink them by Tikz settings, I cannot ...
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Problem using macros to define tree substructures

Relatively simple problem: I want to use macros to define substructures of a tree. In the following example for illustration, I want to define some children (left and right) to be used several times ...
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pstree: How can I force a tree node to one side?

I'm drawing some binary search trees using pstricks and pstree, but I don't see anything in the docs to push a node to one side. In a binary search tree, every child must be either right or left, but ...
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Tree using Latex

I want to to reduce the size of the node to which they perceived better in my presentation; the problem is that the nodes are overlap. I have the code from Drawing a tree where many nodes have the ...
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Describing leaves of a tree with an underbrace using pstree/pstricks

I'd like to have a discription for some of the leaves. It doesn't need to be an underbace, if somebody has better graphical suggestions... :) Consider this example: ...
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Bad math delimiter in tikz tree

I'm trying to diagram an extensive form game using TikZ trees. The following code generates errors at compile time. Specifically, it complains about missing $'s and a bad math delimiter. I've been ...