[OS X TeX] Problem installing 'xypic' and 'xyling' under Leopard
Eldon Lytle
relampus at yahoo.com
Sat Feb 9 02:01:59 CET 2008
I am using MacTeX and you are absolutely right - both
xypic and xyling (also xyli-doc) are already present.
The sample script you included worked perfectly on the
first run.
Thanks so much for tolerating the ignorance of a
newbie.
Eldon
--- Alan Munn <amunn at msu.edu> wrote:
>
> At 11:31 AM -0800 2/8/08, Eldon Lytle wrote:
> >Hi,
> >The writing I do requires representation of
> >complicated linguistic structures. In searching the
> >web for laTeX graphics packages designed for this
> >task, I came upon 'xypic' and 'xyling.' These I
> >downloaded but can't get them to install under
> >Leopard.
>
> Assuming you are using MacTeX, xypic and xyling
> are already installed as part of TeXLive, so you
> shouldn't need to install them yourself.
>
> Try the followng document in TeXShop:
>
> %!TEX TS-program = latex
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{xyling}
> \begin{document}
> \Tree{ & \K{VP}\B{dl}\B{dr} \\
> \K{NP}\B{d} & & \K{V$¹$}\B{dl}\B{dr} \\
> \K{\emph{John}}& \K{V$^{0}$}\B{d} & & \K{NP}\B{d} \\
> & \K{\emph{loves}} & & \K{\emph{Mary}} }
> \end{document}
>
> This should produce a proper tree.
>
> Note, that since xyling uses pstricks, documents
> using it must use latex+dvips instead of
> pdflatex. To do this in TeXShop, put
>
> %!TEX TS-program = latex
>
> as the first line of your file.
>
> To see the (unfortunately badly named)
> documentation, open a terminal window, and type
>
> texdoc xyli-doc
>
> Alan
>
> --
> Alan Munn
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