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4.12 BppTreeDraw: Bio++ Tree Drawing

This is a simple program that outputs a tree in various vector formats. It takes as input a tree following the standard syntax.

Specific options:

output.drawing.file = {path}

The file where to output the figure.

output.drawing.format = {Svg|Xfig|Inkscape|Pgf}

The file format.

output.drawing.plot = {plotting algorithm}

The plotting algorithm can be either Phylogram or Cladogram. They follow the keyval syntax, with the following arguments:

xu, yu {float}

The scale units for x and y axis.

direction.h {left2right|right2left}

Horizontal orientation of the tree plot.

direction.v {top2bottom|bottom2top}

Vertical orientation of the tree plot.

draw.leaves, draw.ids, draw.brlen, draw.bs {boolean}

Tell if leaf names, node ids, branch lengths and/or bootstrap should be drawn.