HPSG Diagrams

[kaplan]

I've also tried using the EQ code, and as Georgia says, it isn't much
worse than Latex.

I have it set up so that all the arcane stuff gets inserted by an
"autocorrect" command.  So I just type "\fs" (I'm doing LFG, not HPSG)
and it expands to all the junk codes, with a filler symbol to be
replaced by the actual AV pairs (and \fs can be typed there also to get
embeddings).  One feature of this is that you can use all of the word
editing features (italics, bold, different fonts) and so forth for the
content.   WIth an equation-editor object, you get the brackets fairly
directly (but not as easily as typing \fs), but then it has its own
mind about the format of the text elements and you have to work to
disable that.

The EQ field approach is certainly not the worst feature of Word--it
doesn't even come close.  And you can easily swap back and forth
between the display view and the editable-text view by typing F9 or
shift-F9 (at least on a Mac).

Now, does anybody have an easy way of inserting trees in Word?  They
can be drawn by drawing lines and such, but is there any way of typing
in a tree-description (e.g. something like a labeled bracketing) and
having it pop out to a nicely drawn tree?   I've tried the scheme of
using connectors in powerpoint--that's a possible but not very
satisfactory solution.  Things sometimes get screwed up going back and
forth between the two programs.   It would be nice to have a
more-or-less Word internal way of doing this.

Ron