Lattice timeline verticale

Question

Date le linee temporali verticali in " Come puoi creare una linea temporale verticale? " E in particolare questo , sarebbe possibile rendere la distanza tra i punti scala con la loro distanza numerica?
Ad esempio, i punti 2000, 2005 saranno distanti la metà rispetto a 2010,2020

from the second link:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{charter}
\usepackage{environ}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc,matrix}

% code by Andrew:
% http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/28452/13304
\makeatletter
\let\matamp=&
\catcode`\&=13
\makeatletter
\def&{\iftikz@is@matrix
  \pgfmatrixnextcell
  \else
  \matamp
  \fi}
\makeatother

\newcounter{lines}
\def\endlr{\stepcounter{lines}\\}

\newcounter{vtml}
\setcounter{vtml}{0}

\newif\ifvtimelinetitle
\newif\ifvtimebottomline
\tikzset{description/.style={
  column 2/.append style={#1}
 },
 timeline color/.store in=\vtmlcolor,
 timeline color=red!80!black,
 timeline color st/.style={fill=\vtmlcolor,draw=\vtmlcolor},
 use timeline header/.is if=vtimelinetitle,
 use timeline header=false,
 add bottom line/.is if=vtimebottomline,
 add bottom line=false,
 timeline title/.store in=\vtimelinetitle,
 timeline title={},
 line offset/.store in=\lineoffset,
 line offset=4pt,
}

\NewEnviron{vtimeline}[1][]{%
\setcounter{lines}{1}%
\stepcounter{vtml}%
\begin{tikzpicture}[column 1/.style={anchor=east},
 column 2/.style={anchor=west},
 text depth=0pt,text height=1ex,
 row sep=1ex,
 column sep=1em,
 #1
]
\matrix(vtimeline\thevtml)[matrix of nodes]{\BODY};
\pgfmathtruncatemacro\endmtx{\thelines-1}
\path[timeline color st] 
($(vtimeline\thevtml-1-1.north east)!0.5!(vtimeline\thevtml-1-2.north west)$)--
($(vtimeline\thevtml-\endmtx-1.south east)!0.5!(vtimeline\thevtml-\endmtx-2.south west)$);
\foreach \x in {1,...,\endmtx}{
 \node[circle,timeline color st, inner sep=0.15pt, draw=white, thick] 
 (vtimeline\thevtml-c-\x) at 
 ($(vtimeline\thevtml-\x-1.east)!0.5!(vtimeline\thevtml-\x-2.west)$){};
 \draw[timeline color st](vtimeline\thevtml-c-\x.west)--++(-3pt,0);
 }
 \ifvtimelinetitle%
  \draw[timeline color st]([yshift=\lineoffset]vtimeline\thevtml.north west)--
  ([yshift=\lineoffset]vtimeline\thevtml.north east);
  \node[anchor=west,yshift=16pt,font=\large]
   at (vtimeline\thevtml-1-1.north west) 
   {\textsc{Timeline \thevtml}: \textit{\vtimelinetitle}};
 \else%
  \relax%
 \fi%
 \ifvtimebottomline%
   \draw[timeline color st]([yshift=-\lineoffset]vtimeline\thevtml.south west)--
  ([yshift=-\lineoffset]vtimeline\thevtml.south east);
 \else%
   \relax%
 \fi%
\end{tikzpicture}
}

\begin{document}

\begin{vtimeline}[timeline color=cyan!80!blue, add bottom line, line offset=2pt]
1947 & AT and T Bell Labs develop the idea of cellular phones\endlr
1968 & Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre envisage the `Dynabook'\endlr
1971 & Busicom 'Handy-LE' Calculator\endlr
1973 & First mobile handset invented by Martin Cooper\endlr
1978 & Parker Bros. Merlin Computer Toy\endlr
1981 & Osborne 1 Portable Computer\endlr
1982 & Grid Compass 1100 Clamshell Laptop\endlr
1983 & TRS-80 Model 100 Portable PC\endlr
1984 & Psion Organiser Handheld Computer\endlr
1991 & Psion Series 3 Minicomputer\endlr
\end{vtimeline}

\end{document}

Answer 1

Questo approccio specifico utilizza a \matrixper disporre la sequenza temporale, quindi non è semplice regolare la spaziatura delle righe come desideri. Un approccio diverso sarebbe quello di utilizzare pgfplotse creare la sequenza temporale con una trama reale. Il testo può essere aggiunto con nodes near coords.

Non ho provato a racchiuderlo in una macro / ambiente come nel post a cui fai riferimento, ma posso provare a farlo domani, se vuoi.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{charter}
\usepackage{pgfplotstable}

\pgfplotstableread[col sep=semicolon]{
year ; label
1947 ; AT and T Bell Labs develop the idea of cellular phones 
1968 ; Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre envisage the `Dynabook'
1971 ; Busicom 'Handy-LE' Calculator 
1973 ; First mobile handset invented by Martin Cooper 
1978 ; Parker Bros. Merlin Computer Toy 
1981 ; Osborne 1 Portable Computer 
1982 ; Grid Compass 1100 Clamshell Laptop 
1983 ; TRS-80 Model 100 Portable PC 
1984 ; Psion Organiser Handheld Computer 
1991 ; Psion Series 3 Minicomputer
}\datatable


\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
  y dir=reverse,
  footnotesize,
  hide x axis,
  axis y line=left,
  axis line style={-, draw=none},
  ytick=data,
  xmin=0.99,
  clip=false,
  nodes near coords,
  nodes near coords align=right,
  point meta=explicit symbolic,
  yticklabel style={
    /pgf/number format/set thousands separator={},
    inner sep=1pt
    },
  scale only axis,
  width=1mm,
  height=15cm,
  tick align=outside,
  every tick/.append style={thin, cyan}
  ]
  
  \addplot [mark=*,cyan,mark size=2, shorten <=-2mm, shorten >=-2mm, thick] table[y index=0, x expr=1, meta=label] {\datatable};

\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}