Mdthbs

I'm new here and I only recently started to use LaTeX.

This is what I'm trying to achieve:

Notice the vertical lines and the oblique lines. Vertical lines represent headedness.

This is what I'm able to do:

This is the code:

documentclass[12pt]{article}

usepackage[usenames]{color} %used for font color

usepackage{amssymb} %maths

usepackage{amsmath} %maths

usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} %useful to type directly diacritic characters

usepackage{tipa}

usepackage{tikz-qtree}



begin{tikzpicture}[baseline]

tikzset{frontier/.style={distance from root=100pt}}

Tree

[.Pwd [.Ft [.$sigma$ [.æ ] ] [.$sigma$ [.l ] [.textipa{textschwa} ] ] ] [.Ft [.$sigma$ [.b ] [. æ ] ] [.$sigma$ [.m ] [.textipa{textschwa} ]] ] ]



end{tikzpicture}

end{document}

Edit: I have a new problem concerning this issue:

I would like the 'á' to be aligned with the mora ($mu$), the syllable ($sigma$), the Foot (Ft) and the Prosodic word (Pwd). The 's' should be on the left (like it right now) but without going over.

Here is the code:

begin{forest}

for tree={s sep=0, inner sep=0.8mm, l=0, parent anchor=south, child anchor=north} 

[Pwd [Ft, calign=first [$sigma$, calign=center [s, tier=word ] [$mu$ ['a, tier=word, name=C ] ] [$mu$, name=B] [$mu$ [t , name=D ] ] ] [$sigma$, name=A [$mu$ [u, tier=word ] ] ] ] ]

draw[-] (D.north)--(A.south);

draw[-] (C.north)--(B.south);

end{forest}

end{document}

Thank you

If you consider switching to forest, then you only need to set the appropriate calign keys. (forest has IMHO many advantages over tikz-qtree and is based on tikz, so you can use all tikz stuff, too.)

documentclass{article}

usepackage[edges]{forest}

usepackage{tipa}

begin{document}

begin{forest}

for tree={parent anchor=south,where level={1}{calign=first}{calign=last}}

[Pwd 

 [Ft 

  [$sigma$ 

   [ae ] 

  ] 

  [$sigma$ 

   [l ] 

   [textipa{textschwa} 

   ] 

  ] 

 ] 

 [Ft 

  [$sigma$ 

   [b ] 

   [ae ] 

  ] 

  [$sigma$ 

   [m ] 

   [textipa{textschwa} 

   ]

  ] 

 ] 

]

end{forest}

end{document}

It is not so difficult with TIkZ's matrix:

documentclass[tikz]{standalone}

usepackage{tipa}

usetikzlibrary{matrix}

begin{document}

begin{tikzpicture}

matrix (m) [matrix of nodes,nodes={minimum width=.8cm}] {%

    & & & & PWd & &\[2em]

    Ft & & & & Ft & &\[2em]

    $sigma$ & & $sigma$ & & $sigma$ & & $sigma$\[2em]

    `ae & l & textipa{textschwa} & b & 'ae & m & textipa{textschwa}\

};

draw (m-2-1.north) -- (m-1-5.south) -- (m-2-5.north);

draw (m-3-1.north) -- (m-2-1.south) -- (m-3-3.north);

draw (m-3-5.north) -- (m-2-5.south) -- (m-3-7.north);

draw (m-4-1.north) -- (m-3-1.south);

draw (m-4-2.north) -- (m-3-3.south) -- (m-4-3.north);

draw (m-4-4.north) -- (m-3-5.south) -- (m-4-5.north);

draw (m-4-6.north) -- (m-3-7.south) -- (m-4-7.north);

end{tikzpicture}

end{document}