Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Ring Composition with parallels and captions

[GabbeLatex]

Dear folks!

I'd like to recreate with some good LaTeX code, a picture like this:



I'm not interested in recreating the green boxes on the right. The oval or round shape is mandatory as the parallels lines and all the captions in the positions you see. Oh, even the vertical line that divides in two halves the oval shape must be created.

Thanks for your help and sorry for my strange English

Bye!

[Bartman]

You can draw it with the help of the tikz package. The file size of its manual is almost 10 MB.

A suggestion how that could be done:

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\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes.geometric}

\begin{document}
  \begin{tikzpicture}[
    font=\sffamily\strut,% <- added
    every label/.style={align=center}
  ]
  \node [
    draw, 
    ellipse, 
    minimum height=10cm,
    minimum width=\pgfkeysvalueof{/pgf/minimum height}*3/4,
    label=above:\enquote{Text},
    label=260:First line\\Second line,
    label=280:First line\\Second line,
  ] (ellipse) {};
  
  \draw [gray] (ellipse.north) -- (ellipse.south);
  
  \begin{scope}[inner ysep=0pt]% reduces the vertical spacing in the text nodes
  % variable: distance from northern anchor (90 degree)
  \foreach \distanceFromNA in {30,42,...,90}{
    \draw [draw=gray]
      (ellipse.90+\distanceFromNA) node [above left] {Text} 
        -- node [above] {Text}
      (ellipse.90-\distanceFromNA) node [above right] {Text}
    ;
  }
  
  \foreach \distanceFromNA [
    remember=\distanceFromNA as \lastDistanceFromNA (initially 90)
  ] in {102,114,...,150}{
    \draw [draw=gray]
      (ellipse.90+\distanceFromNA) -- node [above] {Text}
      (ellipse.90-\distanceFromNA) 
    ;
    \node [above left] 
      at (ellipse.90+\lastDistanceFromNA|-ellipse.90+\distanceFromNA) {Text}
    ;
    \node [above right] 
      at (ellipse.90-\lastDistanceFromNA|-ellipse.90-\distanceFromNA) {Text}
    ;
  }
  \end{scope}
  \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You can draw it with the help of the tikz package.

Very good suggestion!

The file size of its manual is almost 10 MB.

@GabbeLatex Don't worry, that's because TikZ is very capable and the manual is excellent. You may have a quick view at examples at TeXample.net or TikZ.net.

A suggestion how that could be done

Excellent code!

By the way, as in general nodes are not aligned at the baseline of the text, the alignment may not look perfect if the text has different heights, such as when some letters would have descenders. A quick adjustment can be adding \strut to the font setting, in line 8: font=\sffamily\strut.

Stefan

[Bartman]

@Stefan Kottwitz Thanks for the hint to the adjustment of the text.

[GabbeLatex]

OMG - Thank You So Much!

You all gave me great suggestions... and I'm really grateful!

Now I have all that I need to start plotting a Ring Composition Structure and, who knows, maybe in a recent future I'll be able to put some other labels on the oval like lines which touch the external border with a panel attached ... (I know I'm not explaining in a decent way )

Thank you guys God bless you!

Greetings From Italy

Gabbe