FIGTREE(1)

📦 version 1.4.4, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

👑 FIGTREE(1) — the manual page, but make it cute

okay bestie, welcome to the figtree manual page 💖 this is from the User Commands section of the manual, so you know it's the real deal. sit down, grab a boba, and let's get into it 🧋✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

figtree — graphical phylogenetic tree viewer

like, it shows you trees. not the 🌳 kind. well. kind of the 🌳 kind. evolution trees. iykyk 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

figtree [-graphic <PDF|SVG|SWF|PS|EMF|PNG>] [-width <i>] [-height <i>]
[-help] [<tree-file-name>] [<graphic-file-name>]

so the whole vibe is: you give it options, you give it a tree file, you optionally give it a graphic file name, and it does its thing. the <i> means a number, the <PDF|SVG|SWF|PS|EMF|PNG> means pick one of these six formats, and everything in square brackets is optional (but like, the fun stuff) 💅

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Figtree is a (phylogenetic) tree figure drawing tool. periodt.

it's designed as a graphical viewer of phylogenetic trees, AND as a program for producing publication-ready figures. so it's giving both "let me look at this" and "let me put this in my paper" energy 👑

in particular — and this is the main character detail — it's designed to display summarized and annotated trees produced by BEAST. so if you're a BEAST person, this is literally your app 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -graphic — produce a graphic with the given format. you pick the format, it makes the graphic. slay ✨
  • -width — the width of the graphic, in pixels 📏
  • -height — the height of the graphic, in pixels 📐
  • -help — the option that prints the help message. when in doubt, ask for help, bestie, no shame 😭💖

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Andrew Rambaut <a.rambaut@ed.ac.uk>, University of Edinburgh, Institute of Evolutionary Biology <http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/> 👑

Uses the Java Evolutionary Biology Library (JEBL) <http://jebl.sourceforge.net/> ☕🦋

Thanks to Alexei Drummond, Joseph Heled, Philippe Lemey, Tulio de Oliveira, Beth Shapiro & Marc Suchard — the whole squad, iconic, no cap 💅🎀

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

here's the part where it stops being theory and starts being a tutorial, bestie:

figtree test.tree

just open a tree. no notes. open it. look at it. obsessed 💖

figtree -graphic PDF test.tree test.pdf

read test.tree, write out a PDF called test.pdf. boom. publication-ready, as the description promised 📄✨

figtree -graphic PNG -width 320 -height 320 test.tree test.png

same energy, but now it's a PNG, and it's 320 by 320 pixels because we said so. tiny. square. adorable. 🖼️😭

💀 quick reminder bestie: the graphic file name is a real thing you type, not a vibe. it will write that file. name it something you'll remember, okay? 🙈

and that's the whole page!! 🎉

this was figtree, from the User Commands manual, and the source/version line says figtree with a date of December 2017 — so like, it's a classic, it's vintage, it's still serving 💅🌸

love u, go draw some trees 🦋💖 bye bestie!!

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