Cfrgtkky

I would like the two lines of text to the right of the diagonal lines to be left aligned. Is there any way to do this?

begin{tikzpicture}



node[text] at (2,4) {/p/};



draw (2.5,4) -- (5,5);

draw (2.5,4) -- (5,3);



node[text,align=left] at (7.2,5) {textipa{[b]} / [+voice] __ [+voice]};

node[text,align=left] at (6.5,3) {[p] / elsewhere};



end{tikzpicture}

You could use anchor=west to specify the location of the box via its leftmost point, or just right.

documentclass{article}

usepackage{tikz}

usepackage{tipa}

begin{document}

begin{tikzpicture}

 node at (2,4) {/p/};

 draw (2.5,4) -- (5,5) node[right,align=left] {textipa{[b]} / [+voice] __ [+voice]};

 draw (2.5,4) -- (5,3) node[right,align=left] {[p] / elsewhere};

end{tikzpicture}



begin{tikzpicture}

 node at (2,4) {/p/};

 draw (2.5,4) -- (5,5) node[anchor=west,align=left] {textipa{[b]} / [+voice] __ [+voice]};

 draw (2.5,4) -- (5,3) node[anchor=west,align=left] {[p] / elsewhere};

end{tikzpicture}

end{document}

There are many ways to do that, besides of marmot's methods. Here are three of them (I will add more if I find one in the future).

Method 1

documentclass[tikz,margin=3mm]{standalone}

begin{document}

begin{tikzpicture}

draw (0,0) node[right] {Something} -- (-2,-1) node[left] {Dummy text} -- (0,-2) node[right] {Hello World};

end{tikzpicture}

end{document}

You can use polar coordinates instead of Cartesian coordinates. Also, this way is quite natural (I prefer this way) and doesn't require any TikZ libraries. However, this is not quite a standard way (draw is not supposed to do this stuff, as far as I know).

Method 2

documentclass[tikz,margin=3mm]{standalone}

usetikzlibrary{positioning}

begin{document}

begin{tikzpicture}

node (x) {Something};

node[below left=1cm and 2cm of x.south west] (o) {Dummy text};

node[below right=1cm and 2cm of o.south east] (y) {Hello World};

draw (x.west)--(o.east)--(y.west);

end{tikzpicture}

end{document}

This way use the standard command for inserting strings to TikZ pictures: node. However, aligning the texts and controlling the positions are not really easy IMHO. You need positioning library.

Method 3

documentclass[tikz,margin=3mm]{standalone}

usetikzlibrary{positioning}

begin{document}

begin{tikzpicture}

coordinate[label=right: Something] (x);

coordinate[label=right: Hello World,below=2cm of x] (y);

coordinate[label=left: Dummy text,below left=1cm and 2cm of x] (o);

draw (x)--(o)--(y);

end{tikzpicture}

end{document}

This way uses coordinate command with label option.