A set of XSL files to convert the XML output of forester to LaTeX.

On linux, you can use xsltproc to execute these files. For example:

xsltproc -o main.tex forester-to-latex/book.xsl path/to/your/forest/output/index.xml

This will produce main.tex in the current directory. Do be warned that compiling this file with latex may produce a huge amount of noise in the current directory, as each latex figure in your tree gets a standalone file.

The original version of these files were made by Jon Sterling. This version contains some edits made by Eigil Rischel.

Most notably I have changed the behaviour of the forester \ref{} command. It now outputs \cite{} when the linked tree has the reference taxon - this is to facilitate writing like this: "See for example [5] for a survey of these results". This can now be produced by the forester code See for example \ref{lastname-survey-1999} for a survey of these results.

To make this work, currently, the tree lastname-survey-1999.tree needs to contain a bibliography metadata field giving its own id as lastname-survey-1999 - they are not harmonized automatically.

Currently I have not updated anything in beamer.xsl, as such it is probably broken given the changes that have happened to the forester xml format in the meantime.

article.xsl is a duplicate of book.xsl with \chapter replaced by \section and so forth. The massive amount of code duplication implied by this is unfortunate but I don't currently know how to fix it.

Notes for use

• As noted above, the \ref{...} command, when the referenced tree has the reference taxon, produces \cite{}. To make this work, make sure the reference has the \meta{bib}{...} field set, and that the included bibtex entry has the same id as the tree.
• To produce \begin{proof}, give your tree the proof taxon.
• book.xsl outputs a latex document with "Chapter" as the highest-level subdivision. article.xsl is an article version of this (with "Section" as the highest level). The article version is currently mostly untested.
• See book.xsl for the hardcoded list of semantically meaningful taxons (\taxon{theorem} produces \begin{theorem}, etc)
• If you experience a problem, make sure to delete all the latex, .aux, .bib, etc, files and try over.
• Running pdflatex produces a huge amount of noise in the current directory, be forewarned. In addition to the usual mess of .aux, .toc, .log, etc, it also creates a standalone .tex file for every figure included in the forest with the \tex{} directive (this matches the behavior of forester itself more closely). I recommend placing the .tex file in the build/ directory and running pdflatex in there for that reason.
• The handling of included figures (includng included tex figures) has been updated in a hacky and untested manner to work with the new xml format in Forester 4.3.1, be forewarned!