TreePlot EdgeLabeling Style

Question

Bug introduced in 8.0 or earlier and persisting through 11.3 or later. Fixed in 13.1.0 or earlier.

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I am trying to control the style for edge labels in treeplot and have run into a problem.

Consider these two graphs:

edges1 = {{1 -> 2,"Test"}, 2 -> 3}
edges2 = {{1 -> 2,"Test"}, 2 -> 3, 1 -> 4}

If I plot the first then the labeled edge displays correctly:

TreePlot[edges1, BaseStyle-> 20]

But if I plot the second it slants the text:

TreePlot[edges2, BaseStyle-> 20]

Anyone have any insight how to stop the second behavior?

Edit

Here is a more complicated example showing how it slants the text in both directions and in different amounts (Note that in actuality my edges have different labels)

edges = {{1 -> 2, "Test"}, {1 -> 3, "Test"}, {2 -> 14, 
"Test"}, {3 -> 4, "Test"}, {4 -> 99, "Test"}, {3 -> 6, 
"Test"}, {6 -> 7, "Test"}, {6 -> 8, "Test"}, {7 -> 9, 
"Test"}, {8 -> 10, "Test"}, {8 -> 11, "Test"}, {10 -> 12, 
"Test"}, {11 -> 13, "Test"}};
edges[[All, 2]] = Map[Panel@Style[#, 12] &, edges[[All, 2]]];
TreePlot[edges, Top, 1, AspectRatio -> 1/3]

**Edit 2 ** Combining M.R.'s solution and LayerSizeFunction I can somewhat still control the aspect ratio, but Mr. Wizard's solution is much better

M.R. + LayerSizeFunction:

DeleteCases[TreePlot[edges, Top, 1, LayerSizeFunction -> (1/4 # &)], AspectRatio -> _]

Mr. Wizard:

edges3 = {{1 -> 2, "Test"}, {1 -> 3, "Test"}, {2 -> 14, 
"Test"}, {3 -> 4, "Test"}, {4 -> 99, "Test"}, {3 -> 6, 
"Test"}, {6 -> 7, "Test"}, {6 -> 8, "Test"}, {7 -> 9, 
"Test"}, {8 -> 10, "Test"}, {8 -> 11, "Test"}, {10 -> 12, 
"Test"}, {11 -> 13, "Test"}};
TreePlot[edges3, Top, 1, AspectRatio -> 1/3, EdgeRenderingFunction -> ({Line[#1], 
 If[#3 === None, {}, Text[Panel@Style[#3, 16], Mean@#1]]} &)]

Answer 1

The labels are implemented in terms of Arrowheads and Inset in a rather strange way. One fix is to render the labels manually with a custom EdgeRenderingFunction:

TreePlot[edges2, BaseStyle -> 20,
 EdgeRenderingFunction ->
  ({Line[#1], If[#3 === None, {}, Text[Panel@#3, Mean@#1]]} &)
]

Regarding the default rendering, an arrowhead normally points in the direction of the arrow and therefore the labels, implemented as Arrowheads, would also point in the direction of the line. The fifth argument of Inset is used to compensate for this but the implementation is flawed. You can see the default alignment with:

TreePlot[edges2, BaseStyle -> 20] /. 
 Inset[a_, b_, c_, d_, DIR_, opts__] :> Inset[a, b, c, d, opts]

Solution

We can correct the fifth argument from None to {None, None} like this:

edges = {{1 -> 2, "Test"}, {1 -> 3, "Test"}, {2 -> 14, 
    "Test"}, {3 -> 4, "Test"}, {4 -> 99, "Test"}, {3 -> 6, 
    "Test"}, {6 -> 7, "Test"}, {6 -> 8, "Test"}, {7 -> 9, 
    "Test"}, {8 -> 10, "Test"}, {8 -> 11, "Test"}, {10 -> 12, 
    "Test"}, {11 -> 13, "Test"}};

edges[[All, 2]] = Map[Panel[Style[#, 12], FrameMargins -> 2] &, edges[[All, 2]]];

TreePlot[edges, Top, 1, AspectRatio -> 1/3] /. 
  Inset[a__, None, opts___] :> Inset[a, {None, None}, opts]

Answer 2

This seems to me to be a bug with AspectRatio in the graphic boxes

TreePlot[edges2, AspectRatio -> 2]

works for this example, so try for your more complicated example (which you should post the code for) try

DeleteCases[TreePlot[edges3, EdgeLabeling -> True], AspectRatio -> _]

Answer 3

The situation appears to have been resolved - see below