draw-tree(1)
๐ณ draw-tree โ the manual page, but make it cute
okay bestie, welcome to draw-tree ๐ it's the draw-tree(1) situation, section 1, and it's literally just here to Draw NEWICK (and some other) formatted files. that's it. that's the whole job. ๐
โจ SYNOPSIS โจ
draw-tree [OPTIONS] tree file
likeโฆ you give it a tree file, you give it options, it draws. iconic behavior. ๐ฆ
๐ธ DESCRIPTION ๐ธ
Draw NEWICK (and some other) formatted files. fr fr that's the description. short, sweet, ate. ๐
๐ INPUT OPTIONS ๐
okay so this is the part you actually came for. every single flag, no skips, no cap:
-h,โhelpโ Produce help message. it tells you stuff. slay. โจ-W arg (=8.5),โwidth arg (=8.5)โ Page width in inches. default is8.5๐-H arg (=11),โheight arg (=11)โ Page height in inches. default is11๐โfile argโ predicates to examine ๐โoutput arg (=pdf)โ Type of output to write. your options are:tree,topology,mtree,lengths,dot,ps,pdf,svg. default ispdf๐โout argโ Output filename, and no, you don't put the extension on it (without extension) ๐โfullโ Consider only full splits by collapsing any partial splits.โiterations arg (=2)โ Number of iterations for layout algorithm. default2๐โfont-size arg (=10)โ Font size for taxon names. default10๐คโangle_iterations arg (=0)โ Number of iterations for layout algorithm with small-angle penalties. default0๐โlabels arg (=horizontal)โ Are the names horizontal or angled? defaulthorizontalโ๏ธโcollapseโ Give node lengths evenly to neighboring branches and zero the node lengths.โlayout arg (=graph)โ Layout method:graph,equal-angle,equal-daylight, etc. defaultgraph๐ธ๏ธโgreedyโ For equal-daylight layout: take as much daylight as possible? โ๏ธโtree-layout-initialโ Start an energy layout with positions from the equal-angle layout - only for multifurcating trees ๐ฟโno-shadeโ For equal-daylight layout: reject rotations that shade other groups? ๐โdraw-clouds argโ Draw wandering-ranges in MC trees as clouds. โ๏ธโseed argโ Random seed ๐ฒโverboseโ Output more log messages onstderr. ๐ฃ๏ธ
๐ญ REPORTING BUGS ๐ญ
BAli-Phy online help: http://www.bali-phy.org/docs.php. ๐ซถ
Please send bug reports to bali-phy-users@googlegroups.com. do it. they want to hear from you, bestie. ๐
๐ AUTHORS ๐
Benjamin Redelings. that's the one. give them their flowers. ๐ธ
okay and for the cute sign-off: this whole thing is from Feb 2018, it lives in section draw-tree(1), and yeah that's the page, you're all caught up. go draw some trees, bestie ๐๐โจ
๐ฆ where this page comes from
- debian trixie: bali-phy 4.0-1 ยท GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu questing: bali-phy 4.0-1build2
- ubuntu resolute: bali-phy 4.1+dfsg-1 ยท GPL-2.0-or-later
- ubuntu stonking: bali-phy 4.1+dfsg-1 ยท GPL-2.0-or-later
- ๐ girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms