A LaTeX package for drawing timelines.

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README.md

Id: README.md 11096 2025-07-19 13:13:42Z cfrees

chronos

TikZ-based package for drawing customisable timelines with pgfkeys-based configuration and support for colour schemes, styles and memoization.

Licence

This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c of this license or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this license is in https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2008-05-04 or later.

This work has the LPPL maintenance status `maintained'.

The Current Maintainer of this work is Clea F. Rees.

This file may only be distributed together with a copy of the package chronos. You may however distribute the package chronos without such generated files.

This work consists of all files listed in manifest.txt.

Features

The package supports drawing timelines and aims to be highly customisable. Extensive configuration options are offered via a standard key-value interface based on pgfkeys. Custom colour schemes and styles are supported, and the package includes documented examples of each. Memoization works out-of-the-box if the memoize package is loaded. The code was developed as a result of questions concerning difficulties in customising the output of existing packages for drawing timelines, which sometimes eschew pgfkeys and are often challenging to configure, even when based on PGF/TikZ.

chronos is based on TikZ, but uses some functions from expl3.

Code Repositories

Code for the package is hosted at https://codeberg.org/cfr/chronos For convenience, the repository is mirrored at https://github.com/cfr42/chronos

Contact Details

Bug reports, feature requests etc. should be filed at https://codeberg.org/cfr/chronos/issues

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