Directory graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/huffman
huffman
This METAPOST package allows to draw general $q$-ary Huffman trees from two arrays : a string one, and a value one. It is based on METAOBJ package which provides many tools to build trees in general.
This package is in beta version, do not hesitate to report bugs, as well as requests for improvement.
GUTenberg Gitlab
https://gitlab.gutenberg-asso.fr.com/mchupin/huffman
Installation
huffman is on the ctan and can be installed via the package manager of your distribution https://www.ctan.org/pkg/mpchess.
With TeX live under Linux or MacOS
To install huffman with TeX live, you will have to create the directory texmf directory in your home.
user $> mkdir ~/texmf
Then, you will have to place the .mp files in the ~/texmf/tex/metapost/huffman/.
Once this is done, huffman will be loaded with the classic
input huffman
With MikTEX and Windows
These two systems are unknown to the author of MPchess, so we refer to their documentation to add local packages: http://docs.miktex.org/manual/localadditions.html
Dependencies
huffman depends on the packages METAPOST: metaobj and, if huffman is not used with LuaLaTeX and luamplib, latexmp.
Documentation
Contact
Maxime Chupin, maxime.chupin@tuta.com
Licenses
This projet is under LATEX Project Public License 1.3c.
Download the contents of this package in one zip archive (143.3k).
huffman – Drawing binary Huffman trees with METAPOST and METAOBJ
This METAPOST package allows to draw general q-ary Huffman trees from two arrays : an array of strings, and an array of weights (numeric). It is based on the METAOBJ package which provides many tools to build trees in general.
| Package | huffman |
| Bug tracker | |
| Repository | |
| Version | 0.2 2026-06-04 |
| Licenses | The LaTeX Project Public License 1.3c |
| Maintainer | Maxime Chupin |
| Contained in | TeX Live as huffman MiKTeX as huffman |
| Topics | Graphics METAPOST Tree |
