Hi Thomas, I've logged your suggestions as feature requests. One of our engineers noted that:
- there is no internal vector-based representation in phyloGif - the output format was officially changed to png (obviously a few names need to be changed) - providing a ps/pdf output would be nice, but adding the functionality is not a trivial matter If you have any additional questions, please reply to: [email protected] - Greg Roe UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group On 12/3/11 3:06 PM, thomas pringle wrote: > Hi Brooke, > > just continuing on with some questions on how to provide some simple effects > to the tree utility: > > An alternative to color striping is the ability to color subtrees. i am not > sure how this is accomplished, perhaps some special markup symbol at the > start and end of a section of tree to be colored. > > It might be easier/better to color the text rather than the tree. i don't > know how difficult this would be. this would be incredibly useful . as in > html<span style="color:#FF0000;">homSap</span> or<FONT > COLOR=red>homSap</FONT> to make that text red. > > As it stands, the tree utility does not accept this, giving error message > "Parser syntax error: illegal char '<' in phyloString" > > I suppose if the tree utility produced editable text in its pdf, color could > be added after the tool returns its output. Maybe if the tree part and the > text part were treated like adjacent html frames, it could work. the problem > there is keeping the tree lines in register with mid-text lines. the attached > jpeg shows a snippet of two large trees where i hacked a screenshot graphic > to match text lines, and then a tree from a recent Science where they colored > the subclades. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
