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Subject: More trees
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I thought it might be neat to provide a different tree generation
function -- one that grows downwards with thread depth instead of
sideways.  Here's the original function:

{***}-(***)-[odd]-[Gun]
     |     \[Jan]
     |     \[odd]-[Eri]
     |     \(***)-[Eri]
     |           \[odd]-[Paa]
     \[Bjo]
     \[Gun]
     \[Gun]-[Jor]

And here's the new one:

{***}
  |--------------------------\-----\-----\
(***)                         [Bjo] [Gun] [Gun]
  |--\-----\-----\                          |
[odd] [Jan] [odd] (***)                   [Jor]
  |           |     |--\
[Gun]       [Eri] [Eri] [odd]
                          |
                        [Paa]

Uhm.  I thought the new function would produce taller outputs than the
old one...

As a comparison, here's the output from the summary buffer for the
same thread:

R  [  17: Gunnar Horrigmo     ] Re: Oslonetts sex-trauma
R      <  26: Gunnar Horrigmo     > 
R          [  19: Jorn Ommund Topnes  ] 
R      <  14: Bjorn Remseth       > 
Q      <   0:                     > 
R          [  40: oddms               ] 
R              [  13: Gunnar Horrigmo     ] 
R          [  12: Jan Ingvoldstad     ] 
R          [  10: oddms               ] 
R              [  21: Erik Naggum         ] 
Q          [   0:                     ] 
R              [  33: Erik Naggum         ] 
R              [  28: oddms               ] 
R                  [  14: Paal Thingbo        ] 

Well, the tree displays are more compact than the summary display --
but that's not really surprising since there's less information in the
tree displays...

-- 
   Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen * larsi@ifi.uio.no
      (a red leaf that falls from the purple tree)