我正在使用timelineArne Meier 的軟體包，我想控制時間軸連接器的高度，可在GitHub。可以使用自訂時間軸連接器顏色的選項。請考慮以下程式碼來排版所附圖片：
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{timeline}
\definecolor{Wyellow}{cmyk}{0.15,0.05,0.84,0}
\definecolor{WrandomI}{cmyk}{0.66,0.07,0.13,0.0}
\definecolor{WrandomII}{cmyk}{0.33,0.04,0.44,0.05}
\definecolor{WrandomIII}{cmyk}{0.55,0.15,0.54,0.0}
\definecolor{WrandomIV}{cmyk}{0.44,0.65,0.14,0.1}
\begin{document}
For changing the height of the timeline connectors by using the \verb|timeline| package.\\
\begin{timeline}[Wyellow][WrandomI][WrandomII][WrandomIII][WrandomIV] %where WrandomIV is the color of the timeline connectors.
\timebar[3]{|}{0}{2000}{2013}{1}{|}
\entry{2002}{entry}{no opacity}
\entryshift{2003}{entryshift}{no opacity}{4mm}
\flipentry{2004}{flipentry}{no opacity}
% \flipentry{2005}{Anotherflipentry}{no opacity}
% \flipentry{2005}{Anotherflipentry-I}{no opacity}
\flipentry{2005}{NoOverlapIsExpected}{no opacity}
\flipentryshift{2005}{flipentryshift}{no opacity}{4mm}
\entry[0.5]{2008}{entry}{opacity}
\entryshift[0.5]{2009}{entryshift}{opacity}{4mm}
\flipentry[0.5]{2010}{flipentry}{opacity}
\flipentryshift[0.2]{2011}{flipentryshift}{opacity}{4mm}
\end{timeline}
\end{document}
這會產生以下結果：
期望在於得到手寫圖片的時間軸：
如果可以控制時間軸連接器的高度，則可以避免重疊。這些點（在手寫圖片中作為連接線）不一定是點，因為連接線代表相同的想法。用於取得時間軸的樣式文件如下：
%This package is under the MIT License. Copyright (c) 2018 Arne Meier.
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%OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
%SOFTWARE.
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesPackage{timeline}[2018/04/03 timeline LaTeX package]
\RequirePackage{pgf}
\RequirePackage{tikz}
\RequirePackage{xparse}
\RequirePackage{ifthen}
\RequirePackage{calc} % for length maxof
\usetikzlibrary{arrows,shapes.misc,calc}
\definecolor{uniblue}{rgb}{0.29,0.45,0.72}
\colorlet{timeline-what}{orange!75!white}
\colorlet{timeline-what-fg}{black}
\colorlet{timeline-who}{uniblue!75!white}
\colorlet{timeline-who-fg}{white}
\colorlet{timeline-connector}{orange!75!white}
\newcommand{\timelineInnerBG}[1]{\colorlet{timeline-what}{#1}}
\newcommand{\timelineInnerFG}[1]{\colorlet{timeline-what-fg}{#1}}
\newcommand{\timelineOuterBG}[1]{\colorlet{timeline-who}{#1}}
\newcommand{\timelineOuterFG}[1]{\colorlet{timeline-who-fg}{#1}}
\newcommand{\timelineConnector}[1]{\colorlet{timeline-connector}{#1}}
\newlength\timelineEntryMinHeight
%\setlength\timelineEntryMinHeight{.4cm}
\pgfdeclarelayer{background}
\pgfdeclarelayer{foreground}
\pgfsetlayers{background,main,foreground}
\newlength\boxheightright
\newlength\boxheightleft
%%%% This part of the code (until the end marker) is licensed under cc by-sa 3.0, Paul Gaborit (https://tex.stackexchange.com/users/14500/paul-gaborit)
%%%% It appeared as an answer to my question (https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/424785/tikz-get-current-unit-length-of-x-coordinate) on TeX.StackExchange.
\def\getxlengthincm#1{
\path let \p{x}=(1,0), \n{xlencm}={scalar(veclen(\x{x},\y{x})/1cm)}
in \pgfextra{\xdef#1{\n{xlencm}}};
}
%%% End Marker
\NewDocumentEnvironment{timeline}{O {orange!75!white} O {black} O {uniblue!75!white} O {white} O {orange!75!white}}{%
\begin{tikzpicture}%
\timelineInnerBG{#1}%
\timelineInnerFG{#2}%
\timelineOuterBG{#3}%
\timelineOuterFG{#4}%
\IfNoValueTF{#5}{
\timelineConnector{#1}%
}{
\timelineConnector{#5}%
}
}{\end{tikzpicture}}
% \entrytemplate*type{year}{what}{where}{shift}
\NewDocumentCommand{\entrytemplate}{s m m m m o}{`
\pgfmathsetmacro{\yshiftval}{\IfBooleanTF{#1}{-0.4cm}{0.3cm}\IfValueT{#6}{-#6}}
\pgfmathsetmacro{\xshiftval}{\IfBooleanTF{#1}{-0.3cm}{0.2cm}\IfValueT{#6}{+#6}}
\setlength{\timelineEntryMinHeight}{\maxof{\heightof{#4}}{\heightof{#5}}+1.5mm}
% label
\begin{pgfonlayer}{main}
% back ground white
\node[anchor=\IfBooleanTF{#1}{east}{west},
rotate=45,
rounded rectangle,
rounded rectangle \IfBooleanTF{#1}{west}{east} arc=none,
font=\color{white}\footnotesize,
fill=white,
inner sep=.25mm,
yshift=\yshiftval,
xshift=\xshiftval,
minimum height=\timelineEntryMinHeight,
align=left] (#3-label) at (#3) {#4};
\node[anchor=\IfBooleanTF{#1}{east}{west},
rotate=45,
rounded rectangle,
rounded rectangle \IfBooleanTF{#1}{east}{west} arc=none,
fill=white,
inner sep=.25mm,
font=\color{white}\footnotesize,
minimum height=\timelineEntryMinHeight,
align=left] at (#3-label.\IfBooleanTF{#1}{west}{east}) {#5};
% first arg
\node[anchor=\IfBooleanTF{#1}{east}{west},
rotate=45,
rounded rectangle,
rounded rectangle \IfBooleanTF{#1}{west}{east} arc=none,
font=\color{timeline-what-fg}\footnotesize,
opacity = #2,
fill=timeline-what,
inner sep=.25mm,
yshift=\yshiftval,
xshift=\xshiftval,
minimum height=\timelineEntryMinHeight,
align=left] (#3-label) at (#3) {#4};
% second arg
\node[anchor=\IfBooleanTF{#1}{east}{west},
rotate=45,
rounded rectangle,
rounded rectangle \IfBooleanTF{#1}{east}{west} arc=none,
fill=timeline-who,
opacity = #2,
inner sep=.25mm,
font=\color{timeline-who-fg}\footnotesize,
minimum height=\timelineEntryMinHeight,
align=left] at (#3-label.\IfBooleanTF{#1}{west}{east}) {#5};
\end{pgfonlayer}
% connector
\begin{pgfonlayer}{background}
\node[circle,inner sep=0mm,minimum width=1mm,fill=timeline-connector, opacity = #2] at (#3) {};
\path let \p1 = (#3) in node (#3-goal) at (\x1,\IfBooleanTF{#1}{-1.15}{.85}) {};
\draw[ultra thick,timeline-connector, opacity = #2] (#3.center)
\IfNoValueTF{#6}%
{ -- (#3.center|-#3-label.\IfBooleanTF{#1}{south east}{north west})}%
{ |- ([xshift=1mm]#3-label.\IfBooleanTF{#1}{north east}{west})};
\end{pgfonlayer}
}
\newcommand{\entry}[4][1]{
\entrytemplate{#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}
}
\newcommand{\flipentry}[4][1]{
\entrytemplate*{#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}
}
\newcommand{\entryshift}[5][1]{
\entrytemplate{#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}[#5]
}
\newcommand{\flipentryshift}[5][1]{
\entrytemplate*{#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}[#5]
}
% \timeline{intervalyear}{startsymbol}{startX}{fromyear}{toyear}{intervallength}{endsymbol}
\newcommand{\timebar}[7][5]{
\pgfmathsetmacro{\timelineIntervalLength}{(#5-#4)+1} % length of interval with 1x at the end
\ifthenelse{\equal{#2}{|}}{\pgfmathsetmacro{\timelineOffset}{-.25}}{\pgfmathsetmacro{\timelineOffset}{0}}
\draw[#2-#7] (#3+\timelineOffset,0) -- (#3+#6*\timelineIntervalLength,0);
\foreach \l [count=\li] in {#4,...,#5}{
\pgfmathsetmacro{\timelineX}{#3+(\li-1)*#6} % counter \li starts at 1, thus '-1' required.
\pgfmathsetmacro{\timelineLengthY}{mod(\l,#1)==0?2:1} % if its divisible by 5
\draw (\timelineX,.\timelineLengthY) -- (\timelineX,-.\timelineLengthY) node[font=\footnotesize,yshift=-1.15mm] {\ifthenelse{\timelineLengthY=2}{\l}{}};
\node (\l) at (\timelineX,0) {};
}
\getxlengthincm{\myxlength}
\pgfmathsetmacro{\timebarunit}{#6/12}
\foreach \y in {#4,...,#5}{
\foreach \m in {1,...,12}{
\node[xshift=1cm*\myxlength*\timebarunit*(\m-1)] (\y-\m) at (\y) {};
}
}
}
% \timelinezigzag{start-x-coordinate}
\newcommand{\zigzag}[1]{
\draw[-] (#1,0) -- (#1+0.1,-.4) -- (#1+0.2,.4) -- (#1+0.3,0) -- (#1+0.4,0);
}
\endinput
已經考慮了標記時間軸兩側（上方和下方）的方面；然而，它並不存在於手寫圖片中。關於更改標籤的角度，必須對樣式檔案進行更改。
發布此問題的主要原因是獲得有關調整時間軸連接器高度以避免標籤重疊的建議（例如，透過使用此包，不能在同一年的同一位置建立兩個事件）。該軟體包還有一份可以編譯的手冊，該手冊顯示了一個似乎相關的命令；然而，使用這個指令來控制標籤的高度仍然沒有完成：
\maxof{\heightof{#3}}{\heightof{#4}}+1.5mm
timeline在的樣式檔案中進行了一些更改（例如使用「連接器」一詞的拼字） 。任何修改timeline.sty文件以獲得所需結果的建議將不勝感激。
乾杯!