[OS X TeX] Problem installing 'xypic' and 'xyling' under Leopard

[Alan Munn]

At 11:31 AM -0800 2/8/08, Eldon Lytle wrote:
>Hi,
>The writing I do requires representation of
>complicated linguistic structures. In searching the
>web for laTeX graphics packages designed for this
>task, I came upon 'xypic' and 'xyling.' These I
>downloaded but can't get them to install under
>Leopard.

Assuming you are using MacTeX, xypic and xyling 
are already installed as part of TeXLive, so you 
shouldn't need to install them yourself.

Try the followng document in TeXShop:

%!TEX TS-program = latex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xyling}
\begin{document}
\Tree{ & \K{VP}\B{dl}\B{dr} \\
\K{NP}\B{d} & & \K{V$¹$}\B{dl}\B{dr} \\
\K{\emph{John}}& \K{V$^{0}$}\B{d} & & \K{NP}\B{d} \\
& \K{\emph{loves}} & & \K{\emph{Mary}} }
\end{document}

This should produce a proper tree.

Note, that since xyling uses pstricks, documents 
using it must use latex+dvips instead of 
pdflatex.  To do this in TeXShop, put

%!TEX TS-program = latex

as the first line of your file.

To see the (unfortunately badly named) 
documentation, open a terminal window, and type

texdoc xyli-doc

Alan

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