Draw AVM

Yehuda N. Falk msyfalk at mscc.huji.ac.il
Mon Jan 1 16:15:51 UTC 2001


At 13:51 31/12/00 -0700, Dan Parvaz wrote:
> >          I am a Mac user and for my thesis I have to insert HPSG trees,
> >AVM and so on. My system is 8.1 and Expressionist, as far as I know, it
> >doesn't run. But, Latex is driving me crazy... is there something less
> >complicate?
>[snip...]
>Seriously, last time I talked with Yehuda Falk (are you out there?)

Actually, yes.

>he
>mentioned using WordPerfect's equation editor to insert LFG f-structures,
>so I assume the same can be done for HPSG AVMs. Question is, can you get
>ahold of a version of WordPerfect for Mac that has an adequate
>equation editor?

To justify responding to this thread, I'll mention my pet peeve about HPSG
notation: boxed numbers. There is no easy way to produce them using any
tools that I have (although it can be finaigled in WP).


                            Yehuda N. Falk
       Department of English, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
                     Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel
                        msyfalk at mscc.huji.ac.il
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