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From: morrison@grads.cs.ubc.ca (Rick Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Drawing hierarchical tree structures
Keywords: tree structures
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Date: 29 Sep 89 16:47:14 GMT
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In article <41277@ccicpg.UUCP> swonk@ccicpg.UUCP (Glen Swonk) writes:
>Can anyone suggest a reference to point
>to code that can be used to graphically
>display tree structures.

I believe it is very hard to do well. Here are a couple of references to
get started.

@article{chiba1,
   author =        {Norishige Chiba and Kazunori Onoguchi 
                    and Takao Nishizeki},
   title =         {Drawing Plane Graphs Nicely},
   journal =       {Acta Informatica},
   volume =        {22},
   year =          {1985},
   pages =         {187-201},
   keywords =      {pretty printing plane graphs}
}


@article{vaucher1,
   author =        {Jean G. Vaucher},
   title =         {Pretty-Printing of Trees},
   journal =       {Software, Practise and Eexperience},
   volume =        {10},
   year =          {1980},
   pages =         {553-561},
   keywords =      {tree printing data structure display}
}
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