How to create a timeline with LaTeX?

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Mnementh picture Mnementh · Oct 20, 2008 · Viewed 102.5k times · Source

In history-books you often have timeline, where events and periods are marked on a line in the correct relative distance to each other. How is it possible to create something similar in LaTeX?

Answer

nibot picture nibot · Dec 10, 2010

There is a new chronology.sty by Levi Wiseman. The documentation (pdf) says:

Most timeline packages and solutions for LATEX are used to convey a lot of information and are therefore designed vertically. If you are just attempting to assign labels to dates, a more traditional timeline might be more appropriate. That's what chronology is for.

Here is some example code:

\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}

Which produces this output:

example output from chronology.sty

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