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Can DrawGram draw a scale beside the tree? Print the branch lengths as numbers?

April 26, 2017branch draw lengths Numbers print scale tree

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Can DrawGram draw a scale beside the tree? Print the branch lengths as numbers?

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It can’t do either of these. Doing so would make the program more complex, and it is not obvious how to fit the branch length numbers into a tree that has many very short internal branches. If you want these scales or numbers, choose an output plot file format (such as PICT or PCX) that can be read by a drawing program such as Freehand, Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, or MacDraw. Then you can add the scales and branch length numbers yourself by hand. Note the menu option in DrawTree and DrawGram that specifies the tree size to be a given number of centimeters per unit branch length.