review arboreal windows review arboreal windows cascadilla press dr matthew crocker mwc cogsci ed ac uk centre cognitive science university edinburgh arboreal windows henceforth arborwin package designed facilitate drawing trees within microsoft tm windows tm applications arborwin consists simply truetype tm font keys mapped tree component shaped characters rather standard keyboard symbols advantage drawing trees way arborwin portable used wysiwyg windows tm application allows select specific fonts e disadvantage broadly typesetting layout trees left user characters arborwin include left right vertical triangle branches several widths height font also fully scalable general found arborwin behaved intended given simply fontbased package basic limitation relatively small selection branch sizes e narrow wide branch practice common problem encountered triangle branches eg phrase without internal structure could nt made wide enough given one often wants put fairly long phrases way increase width increase point size branch also increases height particular branch makes trees look disproportionate inconsistent fontbased however also means attain flexibility alternative packages eg tree package latex tree package example takes input declarative tree specification bracketed list automatically typesets tree also permits crossing branches upsidedown trees since typesetting automatic tree formatting consistent tailored size length terminals including triangle branches overall package simple use quite effective requirements terms sophistication layout quality demanding greater flexibility consistency quality required believe still substitute latex associated packages dr matthew crocker esrc research fellow centre cognitive science university edinburgh mwc cogsci ed ac uk