Instructions and reference card included
Macintosh version on CD-ROM, $20.00
Windows version (ArborWin) on CD-ROM, $20.00
Arboreal is the tree-building font from Cascadilla Press. With Arboreal, you can create professional-looking trees like the one above right in your word processor. You won't have to struggle with a separate graphics program or a confusing graphics module. You won't have to use those awkward slashes and backslashes. And you can stop drawing all your lines by hand. Arboreal is a font which works with any Macintosh or Windows application to provide you with the pieces you need to create syntactic trees quickly and easily.
Put the text of the tree in any font you like, and use Arboreal to do the rest. You can create lines connecting a node to one, two, or three daughters. You can make triangles. All in various widths, of course. You can even make lines showing movement. Put arrows at the end if you want. All of these options are simple keystrokes in Arboreal.
Documents using fonts instead of graphics takes up less disk space and print faster. When you buy Arboreal for Macintosh, you'll receive seven sizes of the screen font, the PostScript font, and the TrueType font. Arboreal for Macintosh works with any system from System 7 up through OS X (including 10.3 and 10.4). Arboreal for Windows (ArborWin) includes the TrueType font, and works with Windows 3.1 through Windows XP. Both versions include detailed instructions with clear examples and a key map to leave by your computer, and both versions work with all current operating systems and applications.
How to use Arboreal
This section is excerpted from the instructions which accompany Arboreal.
The easiest way to create a tree is to type in the text for the nodes in approximately the positions you want. Then go back to a spot where you want connecting lines, select Arboreal from the font menu, and press the appropriate key. Finally, use spaces or tabs to move everything into place.
For example, say you want to create a simple three node tree with VP dominating NP and V. Type VP, hit return twice, and then type NP V with some spaces in the middle:
Then go back to the blank line between VP and NP, select Arboreal from the font menu, and press 2:
Finally, space everything into place:
With most trees you create, you probably want more than one set of connecting lines. Rather than repeatedly using the font menu, you can simply copy a character that is already in Arboreal and paste it into all the appropriate locations. You can then change the Arboreal character where necessary, but you will not need to change fonts.
