---
name: "unrooted"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "njplot"
version: "2.4-9+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/unrooted"
---

# unrooted(1)

A phylogenetic tree drawing program for biologists

## NAME

unrooted - A phylogenetic tree drawing program for biologists

## SYNOPSIS

**unrooted** \[*options*\] *tree\_file*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **unrooted** command. This manual page was rewritten for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**unrooted** is part of the **njplot** tree drawing software package.

## OPTIONS

There are only the following options which only work in an x-terminal-emulator, but not in console mode:

- **-h**

  Prints out brief help.

- **-psonly**

  No window interface, just write the PostScript tree file.

- **-us**

  Postscript tree file prepared for US Letter paper size.

- **-size n**

  Font size n used for taxon names.

## SEE ALSO

[**njplot**(1)](/njplot/1.md).\

## Word-Wide-Web:

http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/software/njplot.html

## AUTHOR:

*Manolo Gouy*\
 e-mail: mgouy@biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr

This manual page was written by Dr. Guenter Bechly \<gbechly@debian.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).