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Thank you Stefan for both of your clear explanations. I knew there was a much better way to achieve a grid structure; a matrix is perfect!

I am using the command node distance . When I generate help lines the spacing between the nodes is not what I expected. I have many ideas as to why this is occurring, but I'm not sure which questions to ask to get the answer I actually need.

Also, in node distance why is the vertical, or y-axis ...

*Groan* I hate how glaringly obvious some errors are in hindsight. Thank you Stefan. Worked like a charm

I'm wondering why I'm getting the error message TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000]. \node [fill, right=of t] in the following code:


\begin{tikzpicture}
[inner sep=0.5mm,
nofill/.style={circle,draw=cyan, xshift=-5.5ex},
fill/.style={circle, fill=cyan, xshift=-5.5ex}]

\node ...

Thank you Stefan for showing me \tabularx and an alternative solution. Using variables at this point is too much for me ;) I need to get a better grip on the syntax before I dive into that.

That's great Rainer! Something simple and to the point. Thanks for coming back to the anchor idea. Works ...

Thank you Stefan. I look forward to your reply!
Somewhere in my mind are good java programming skills; I just haven't used them for a while. The logic of coding is therefore not foreign to me And the code you see above wasn't written in 5 minutes

Preamble:
I am trying to create a vertical timeline. After looking around I decided using tikz to draw a line and use the nodes and their labels was my best option. Now I'm thinking \tabular would be better... either way, I'd like to know the answer to the following problem. I am a beginner to ...