Dear Devi,
You could use a general purpose diagramming package like xypic directly. I
use xypic's xymatrix environment to draw graphs with crossing branches
and multiple daughters, like some dependency trees have.
However the learning curve may be a bit steep because of all the
possibilities, and I find the documentation is, uhm, complicated at times.
Getting things to come out as you want may take a fair bit of tweaking.
But the end result is good.
XY-pic:
http://www.maths.mq.edu.au/~ross/Xy-pic.html
It is really stuff you want to do at a higher level. Ralf Vogel's xyling
uses xy, but I do not know whether it will draw crossing branches.
XY-ling:
http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~rvogel/latexling/
best,
/Gerlof
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Devi Xiong wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for packages/tools to draw a dependency tree in LaTeX which can show the
> relative word orders by the orientation and angle of branches. The well-known qtree package
> or syntree package works better for phrase structure trees but can not reflect the order of
> siblings and heads when used for dependency trees. Any guides for drawing dependency chains
> would also be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Best,
> Devi
>
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> Devi Xiong
> Institute of Computing Technology,
> Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
> Homepage: http://mtgroup.ict.ac.cn/~devi/
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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-- Gerlof Bouma Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG) Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands http://www.let.rug.nl/~gerlof
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