# Fitting items next to trees on the page

I want to be able to put items to the left or right of the tree structure in the following example. How can I do that? At the moment each tree occupies a line.

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{tikz-qtree}
\usepackage{tikz-qtree-compat}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}
\Tree [.X X Y ]
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}


• Because the tikzpicture is an hbox, simply before \begin{tikzpicture} \Tree [.X X Y ] \end{tikzpicture} after will place text to the left and right of the tree. Am I misunderstanding? – Steven B. Segletes Jun 11 '15 at 16:38
• It didn't seem to work before. ;) – user65526 Jun 11 '15 at 16:40
• If you had blank lines above/below the tikzpicture, it would interpret it as a paragraph boundary and surrounding text would therefore be above and below, as opposed to either side. Welcome to the site. – Steven B. Segletes Jun 11 '15 at 16:59

Just some pictures...

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{tikz-qtree,tikz-qtree-compat,forest}
\begin{document}
The base of the following tree is aligned with the baseline \begin{tikzpicture}[baseline=(current bounding box.south)]
\Tree [.X X Y ]
\end{tikzpicture}, whereas the top of the next is aligned with the baseline \tikz[baseline=(current bounding box.north)]{\Tree [.X X Y ]} and the baseline is aligned with the centre of the next one \tikz[baseline=(current bounding box.center)]{\Tree [.X X Y ]}.

\forestset{
parent anchor=south,
child anchor=north,
mycomma/.style={%
before drawing tree={
content/.wrap value={##1,},
typeset node
}
},
baseline/.append style={text=red},
}
Any node of a tree may be aligned with the baseline quite easily.
For example,
\begin{forest}[A, baseline, mycomma [B [D] [E]] [C [F] [G]]]\end{forest}
\begin{forest}[A [B, baseline, mycomma [D] [E]] [C, mycomma [F] [G]]]\end{forest}
\begin{forest}[A [B [D, baseline, mycomma] [E, mycomma]] [C [F, mycomma] [G, mycomma]]]\end{forest}
and   \begin{forest}[A [B [D] [E [H., baseline]]] [C [F] [G]]]\end{forest}

\fbox{\begin{minipage}[c]{.35\textwidth}
This is some information

on the right

which is quite

upright

--- for a tree.
\end{minipage}}
\fbox{\begin{forest}
[A[B[C]]]
\end{forest}}
\fbox{\begin{minipage}[t]{.25\textwidth}
This is the weft

from the left

--- not the warp

or the gawp.
\end{minipage}}
\fbox{\begin{minipage}[b]{.25\textwidth}
Far on the side,

safe from the tide,

shark of the bark.
\end{minipage}}

\end{document}