LaTeX forum ⇒ Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Label Alignment in ER Diagram Topic is solved

[c_d_hofer]

Hi community!

I want to make an ER diagram using TikZ with its er library. Unfortunately I have a problem with the alignment of the node labels.

The label seems to use a different alignment than the node, i.e. the label is some units right of the place it supposed to be, and even not in the node. Here is my code:

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{er}
 
\begin{document}
   \tikzstyle{every entity} = [draw=blue, fill=blue!20]
   \begin{tikzpicture}
     \node[entity] (person) {Person};
   \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

I have already completely reinstalled LaTeX but it didn't work out. Thank you so far and I hope you can help me with this task.

[Johannes_B]

Good minimal example, but i am not sure what you are trying to achieve. Please click on "Open in writeLaTeX" just above the code you posted to see the output.

Is your TeX distribution (TeX Live oder MiKTeX) up to date?

[c_d_hofer]

Thank you for the quick response!

Okay, that's weird. The "Open in writeLaTeX" compiles the code just fine and shows exactly what I want to have. When I compile it on my machine, the label is moved to the right for some units. But this holds only for the DVI file. When I convert the DVI to PDF the output is just fine again.

Since I will work with the PDF it seems that I have no actual problem at all, although I never have experienced that the DVI is different to the converted PDF.

By the way, I have installed "texlive-full" from the Ubuntu repository.

[Johannes_B]

The DVI format isn't actually meant to be viewed. Convert to PDF using dvips and ps2pdf or dvipdfmx, or use pdflatex in the first place.

[c_d_hofer]

Thanks for the tip. From now on I will use pdfLaTeX. So far I have only done a lot of mathematical stuff and obviously have misused the DVI format as preview since it is the output format of the "latex" command. Until now I never had problems with this approach. Allright, so I learned something new (for the price of shooting down twice my work environment )