I am wanting to create a template to use for a personal action plan. I googled around and found a format I like. I started to re-create this using TikZ, but I am not that familiar with the package. I want to create a template that looks like the image below (minus the text, I'll enter my own obviously), but I like the boxes and flow. Can anyone help me get started or give me some ideas on how to replicate this layout? Thanks so much!]1
[Tex/LaTex] Replicate Action Plan with Tikz
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I'm happy to report that the answer is yes, at least to some extent. I have created a style for forest
which achieves code compatibility: the documents containing qtree
trees can be used as they are, changing only \usepackage{qtree}
to \usepackage{forest-qtree}
. (Note an exception to this statement: any commas in the node labels must be enclosed in braces; explanation below.) (For the style to work, forest v1.03
is needed. Since I have just published it today --- yes, I have found some bugs while working on the emulator :-) --- it might not yet be available at CTAN; if so, please download it from GitHub: dtx, ins.)
I have managed to process the qtree
manual ("forestified" tex, pdf) with the emulator, omitting only the trees exemplifying qtree
's low-level interface. In detail, the emulation covers the [.label child ... [.subtree ...] child ... child ].label
syntax, \qroof
s, invocation via \Tree
, label-less nodes, sub- and superscripts and primes, hooks, escapes, subtree framing, and centering (on the fly and the package options). Essentially, only the length parameters and spacing adjustments are not emulated; and as far as the latter are concerned, I believe that forest
(due to its positioning algorithm) does not really need them. ;-)
There is also a dark side to the story, though.
First, the emulation does not produce a visually identical result. The structure of the resulting trees is the same, but the typesetting details are not. This could be improved upon, but I have refrained from doing so, since I believe that the best choice of formatting parameters producing the desired effect(s) will differ from document to document.
Second, the emulation might ease the transition, but it certainly wouldn't be practical to use it in new code. Let me explain.
Assume we have a node containing two leaves. forest
representation: [node [child1] [child2]]
(spaces between nodes are irrelevant); qtree
representation: [.node child1 child2 ]
(spaces relevant!). Verdict: qtree
's version is easier to write. However ...
... assume we want to put the first child in a frame. In forest
, this is achieved by specifying draw
on the node (this draw
is simply forwarded to tikz
's \node
), like this: [node [child1,draw] [child2]]
. An attempt to do the same in the qtree
emulation will fail: [.node child1,draw child2 ]
fails with a "unknown key draw child2
" error (child1 is typeset, but not framed). This is so because forest
uses pgfkeys
to parse node-specifications and in pgfkeys
, keys are separated by commas. There is no way around this: one must write [.node {child1,draw} child2 ]
, which obviously eliminates the original advantage of qtree
-like syntax; the only thing achieved is that one must change braces to brackets if he decides to give child1 children of its own ...
Btw, emulation obviously also carries a performance penalty, and furthermore, since it is implemented by changing the geometry of the tree on the fly (yes, forest
can do that!), this can easily lead to interferences in trees formatted using complex styles.
[The following does not include the parshape stuff (I guess you can copy the code from the links you provided)]
Why do you want to make the effort to position frametitle etc with tikz? I think your design can be done with classic beamer tools:
\documentclass[aspectratio=1610,t]{beamer}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[babel=true,kerning=true]{microtype}
\usepackage{roboto}
\title{The title}
\subtitle{Here comes the subtitle\\that can be pretty long}
\date[Short date]{Long date\\ Where the talk is given}
\author[email]{John Doe}
\institute{Institute}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\usetikzlibrary{intersections}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%
% footline
%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
\setbeamercolor{author in head/foot}{fg=gray, bg=black}
\setbeamerfont{author in head/foot}{size=\large}
\setbeamertemplate{footline}{%
\leavevmode%
\hbox{\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=\paperwidth,ht=4ex,dp=1.125ex,leftskip=.3cm,rightskip=.3cm]{author in head/foot}%
\usebeamerfont{author in head/foot}
\insertslidenavigationsymbol
\insertframenavigationsymbol
\insertsubsectionnavigationsymbol
\insertsectionnavigationsymbol
\insertdocnavigationsymbol
\insertbackfindforwardnavigationsymbol
\hfill
\insertframenumber
\end{beamercolorbox}}%
\vskip0pt%
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%
% background
%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\setbeamertemplate{background canvas}{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[overlay, remember picture]
\fill [color=orange] (current page.north east) -- (current page.south east) -- ($(current page.south east)+(-5, 0)$) -- ($(current page.north east)+(-3, 0)$);
\end{tikzpicture}
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%
% frametitle
%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\setbeamercolor{frametitle}{fg=black}
\setbeamerfont{frametitle}{size=\LARGE}
\setbeamerfont{framesubtitle}{size=\large}
\makeatletter
\setbeamertemplate{frametitle}{%
\vbox{}\vskip-0.5em%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.7\paperwidth]{frametitle}
\usebeamerfont{frametitle}%
\strut\insertframetitle\strut\par%
\end{beamercolorbox}
\ifx\insertframesubtitle\@empty%
\else%
\vskip-0.3em
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.68\paperwidth]{frametitle}
\usebeamerfont{framesubtitle}%
\strut\insertframesubtitle\strut\par%
\end{beamercolorbox}
\fi
}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}%
\frametitle{There Is No Largest Prime Number}
\framesubtitle{The proof uses \textit{reductio ad absurdum}.}
some text
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}%
\frametitle{There Is No Largest Prime Number}
some text
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}%
\frametitle{There Is No Largest Prime NumberThere Is No Largest Prime Number}
\framesubtitle{The proof uses \textit{reductio ad absurdum}.}
some text
\end{frame}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Torbjørn T. already showed you how to draw the signal nodes. Other than that you can use a matrix. (Why
append after command
below does not work as expected, I do not know, but at least it creates the space needed to extend the arrows.) And please forgive me for not punching in the texts from your screenshot.