Hi all,
Does anyone have a good solution to generate timelines?
Features that are required:
- Allows marking of both specific events ("point in time") and
periods ("range in time")
Features that are highly desired:
- Properly functional unicode support (right to left support not
required at this stage, but otherwise font switching for arbitrary
languages)
Features that would be a bonus:
- Handles the case of 'so many elements you'd be lucky to get them to
fit on a page' elegantly (eg: by scaling layout down to a minimum
threshold size for legibility, then page-splitting)
- Accepts input as a simply delimited text file (ala graphviz .dot
files or mscgen .msc files)
Any recommendations would be appreciated.
I have seen a few non-LyX specific solutions already but they all seem
to lack what I want. Having said that, if all else fails I suppose I
could try to write one (with only required features), maybe call it
'escgen' (event sequent chart generator) in deference to its high
quality predecessor. However, it seems like a good example in raw TeX
would be enough for me to get some macros going and a more elegant
solution (ie: no need to re-implement unicode font support, no need to
step out to an external generation/update process). Could anyone point
one out?
Cheers
- Walter
