Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ macro for stair?

[odhage]

It would be nice with some kind of macro to easy make a stair (like for example Maslows). It comes in handy when you want to illustrate for example a process with succeding steps depending on the one before. I imagine it could for example be similar to a table in the way you write your stair:

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\begin{stair}{<horisontal direction>}
\up
first step & inside the stair \\
second &\\
third&\\
\down (maybe you need: &\\ ?)
second level again on the other side & inside \\
first again &\\
\end{stair}

There could be default measures that you could change with \setlength or something.
Or it could be a tikz macro?
Can someone please tell me if something like this already exist, or is someone willing to make such a macro?

Kindly
Mikael

[cgnieder]

Hi. What is Maslows? Could you describe what you'd like the output of your code to look like?

Regards

[odhage]

Thank you for your involvment!
A macro or a package or something, I don't know the best solution.
Maslow is famous for his idea of putting our needs in a hierarchy that is sometimes displayed as a pyramid sometimes as a stair.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_ ... y_of_needs
An other example is the aging stair, like this .
The output I want is simple, just a line as the steps. Maybe some of the parameters can be the same as in a real stair, se attached pdf. With possibility to have text on the steps and inside. Maybe a rail for binding concepts and platforms to show plateau in a development or progress. I want all possible directions.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

I got a first quick idea to make a staircase diagram using a TikZ matrix.
You can see the steps in the matrix. The draw commands goes through matrix
node coordinates. It could be simplified using a \foreach loop, but
I think it already shows what is meant. And, in such a matrix, you could
go upwards and downwards too.

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\documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{matrix}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
  \matrix (m) [ matrix of nodes, row sep = 3em, column sep = 0em,
                nodes={minimum width = 7em, outer sep = 0em}] {
         &      &        &             & Best \\
         &      &        & Much better &      \\
         &      & better &             &      \\
         & good &        &             &      \\
     bad &      &        &             &      \\
  };
  \draw (m-5-1.south west) -- (m-5-1.south east)
     -- (m-4-2.south west) -- (m-4-2.south east)
     -- (m-3-3.south west) -- (m-3-3.south east)
     -- (m-2-4.south west) -- (m-2-4.south east)
     -- (m-1-5.south west) -- (m-1-5.south east)
  ;
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

staircase-diagram.png (4.5 KiB) Viewed 6219 times

Stefan

[odhage]

Thank you Stefan!
I think that will do the job. I would have loved something with less work with syntax, but it looks good anyway.
/Mikael