decision_tree git repository. Setup a graphviz (http://graphviz.org/) decision tree for a science team to visual the flow of decisions. In Ubuntu linux flavors install graphviz with: sudo apt-get install graphviz base.dot is the template, a possible implimentation is each countdown item has a .dot file, which is converted to a .tex page and which are all compiled together to form a handbook (last is yet to be implimented). ideally uses the dot2tex python module, easily installed with: pip install dot2tex Convert to tex: $ dot2tex -ftikz -s base.dot >test.tex --docpreamble="\usepackage[landscape]{geometry}" convert to pdf: $ pdflatex \\nonstopmode\\input test.tex