[Tex/LaTex] problem with chronology package

chronologytimeline

I want to do a horizontal time line. I find this script:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{chronology}
\begin{document}
\begin{chronology}[5]{1983}{2010}{3ex}{\textwidth}
\event{1984}{one}
\event[1985]{1986}{two}
\event{\decimaldate{25}{12}{2001}}{three}
\end{chronology}
\end{document}

It should produces a horizontal time line. I get errors.

timeline-text.tex(4): Error: Missing number, treated as zero.
timeline-text.tex(4): Error: Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted).

Can you help? Also, some of the replies in the post where I got the code from: HERE says that the package does not accept more than one time line in the document? is this true?

Best Answer

The last argument is optional, not mandatory and so should use brackets. It is not quite clear what is its purpose but it seems to allow scaling: the timeline is created in the size of arg #5 and then scaled to arg #4 (this also means that arg #4 shouldn't be too small.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{chronology}
\begin{document}

\begin{chronology}[5]{1983}{2010}{\textwidth}
\event{1984}{oneD}
\event[1985]{1986}{two}
\event{\decimaldate{25}{12}{2001}}{three}
\end{chronology}

abc

\begin{chronology}[5]{1983}{2010}{10cm}[\textwidth]
\event{1984}{oneD}
\event[1985]{1986}{two}
\event{\decimaldate{25}{12}{2001}}{three}
\end{chronology}

abc

abc

\begin{chronology}[5]{1983}{2010}{10cm}[0.2\textwidth]
\event{1984}{oneD}
\event[1985]{1986}{two}
\event{\decimaldate{25}{12}{2001}}{three}
\end{chronology}

abc

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] How to use chronology package to draw this timeline

The original chronology environment doesn't allow this. Below I defined a markschronology environment which behaves in a similar fashion to chronology (it has the same arguments and it was defined following the original definition) and allows you to specify a number of intermediate ticks; the number of intermediate ticks is controlled by \Marks with default value 0 (i.e., no intermediate ticks):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{chronology}

\def\Marks{0}

\makeatletter
\def\@marks{}
\newenvironment{markschronology}
  {%
    \@ifstar{\chronology@startrue\markschronology@i*}  {\chronology@starfalse\markschronology@i*}%
  }
  {%
    \end{tikzpicture}%
    \end{lrbox}%
    \raisebox{2ex}{%
      \resizebox{\timelinewidth}{!}{\usebox{\timelinebox}}%
    }%
  }

\def\markschronology@i*{%
    \@ifnextchar[{\markschronology@ii*}{\markschronology@ii*[{5}]}%
}

\def\markschronology@ii*[#1]#2#3#4{%
    \@ifnextchar[{\markschronology@iii*[{#1}]{#2}{#3}{#4}}{\markschronology@iii*[{#1}]{#2}{#3}{#4}[{#4}]}%
}

\def\markschronology@iii*[#1]#2#3#4[#5]{%
  \newif\ifflipped%
  \ifchronology@star%
    \flippedtrue%
  \else%
    \flippedfalse%
  \fi%
  \setcounter{step}{#1}%
  \setcounter{yearstart}{#2}\setcounter{yearstop}{#3}%
  \setcounter{deltayears}{\theyearstop-\theyearstart}%
  \setlength{\unit}{#5/\thedeltayears}%
  \setlength{\timelinewidth}{#4}%
  \pgfmathsetcounter{stepstart}{\theyearstart+\thestep-mod(\theyearstart,\thestep)}%
  \pgfmathsetcounter{stepstop}{\theyearstop-mod(\theyearstop,\thestep)}%
  \addtocounter{step}{\thestepstart}%
  \begin{lrbox}{\timelinebox}%
  \begin{tikzpicture}[baseline={(current bounding box.north)}]%
    \draw [|->] (0,0) -- (\thedeltayears*\unit+\unit, 0);%
    \foreach \x in {1,...,\thedeltayears}
    {
      \draw[xshift=\x*\unit] (0,-0.1\unit) -- (0,0.1\unit);%
    }
    \pgfmathsetmacro{\@marks}{1+(1/(\Marks+1))}
    \foreach \x in {1,\@marks,...,\thedeltayears}
    {
      \draw[xshift=\x*\unit] (0,-0.05\unit) -- (0,0.05\unit);%
    }
    \addtocounter{deltayears}{1}%
    \foreach \x in {\thestepstart,\thestep,...,\thestepstop}
    {%
      \pgfmathsetlength\xstop{(\x-\theyearstart)*\unit}%
      \ifflipped%
        \node at (\xstop,0) [above=.2\unit] {\x};%
      \else%
        \node at (\xstop,0) [below=.2\unit] {\x};%
      \fi%
    }%
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\noindent\begin{markschronology}[1]{2010}{2016}{\textwidth}
\end{markschronology}\par\bigskip

\def\Marks{3}
\noindent\begin{markschronology}[1]{2010}{2016}{\textwidth}
\end{markschronology}\par\bigskip

\def\Marks{5}
\noindent\begin{markschronology}[1]{2010}{2016}{\textwidth}
\end{markschronology}

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Events overlap on chronology with chronosys

Try this

\documentclass[article]
\usepackage{chronosys}
\begin{document}
\startchronology
\chronoevent[markdepth=60pt]{1525}{Texte B}%order - furthest out first
\chronoevent{1500}{Texte A}
\stopchronology
\end{document}

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