Draw AVM

SHALOM LAPPIN shalom.lappin at kcl.ac.uk
Tue Jan 2 18:04:14 UTC 2001


A good reason for using Latex, which has a number of convenient macros
for drawing AVM's with all the attendant elements, boxed inters and
all. Regards.
                                  Shalom

On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Yehuda N. Falk wrote:

> 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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>
> "And because, in all the galaxy, they had found nothing more precious
> than  Mind,  they  encouraged  its dawning  everywhere.  They  became
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> --Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
>
>



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