Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Tikz | Arrangement of nodes

[phponline]

Hi all,
I would like to arrange nodes in an area as an jusitified continuous text.
In my MWE you can see an jusitified continuous text and below the text some justified nodes. I would like to arrange the nodes without a minipage environment.
Is there a possibility to do that with a tikzpicture environment?


Additional it would be nice to arrange the nodes in the shape of a circle, too.
For example I would like to draw a bag and fill it with numbered nodes (like a bag of lottery balls).

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\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes}

\begin{document}
\blindtext \\
\begin{minipage}[t]{\textwidth}
   \tikz[baseline=(n.base)]{\node [draw, ultra thick, fill=blue!20,ellipse] (n)	{H};}
   \tikz[baseline=(n.base)]{\node [draw, ultra thick, fill=blue!20,ellipse] (n)	{He};}
   \tikz[baseline=(n.base)]{\node [draw, ultra thick, fill=blue!20,ellipse] (n)	{Hel};}
   \tikz[baseline=(n.base)]{\node [draw, ultra thick, fill=blue!20,ellipse] (n)	{Hell};}
   \tikz[baseline=(n.base)]{\node [draw, ultra thick, fill=blue!20,ellipse] (n)	{Hello};}
   \tikz[baseline=(n.base)]{\node [draw, ultra thick, fill=blue!20,ellipse] (n)	{Hello };}
   \tikz[baseline=(n.base)]{\node [draw, ultra thick, fill=blue!20,ellipse] (n)	{Hello W};}
   \tikz[baseline=(n.base)]{\node [draw, ultra thick, fill=blue!20,ellipse] (n)	{Hello Wo};}
   \tikz[baseline=(n.base)]{\node [draw, ultra thick, fill=blue!20,ellipse] (n)	{Hello Wor};}
   \tikz[baseline=(n.base)]{\node [draw, ultra thick, fill=blue!20,ellipse] (n)	{Hello Worl};}
   \tikz[baseline=(n.base)]{\node [draw, ultra thick, fill=blue!20,ellipse] (n)	{Hello World};}
   \tikz[baseline=(n.base)]{\node [draw, ultra thick, fill=blue!20,ellipse] (n)	{Hello World!};}
   \tikz[baseline=(n.base)]{\node [draw, ultra thick, fill=blue!20,ellipse] (n)	{Hello World! Hello World!};}
   \tikz[baseline=(n.base)]{\node [draw, ultra thick, fill=blue!20,ellipse] (n)	{Hello World! Hello World! Hello World!};}
   \tikz[baseline=(n.base)]{\node [draw, ultra thick, fill=blue!20,ellipse] (n)	{Hello World! Hello World! Hello World! Hello World!};}
\end{minipage}
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the board!

The minipage is already a nice solution I think. Other solutions would also include some code.

Regarding node arrangements in circles, you could use polar coordinates for drawing. Have a look at this TikZ cycle example by Jerome Tremblay:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}

\def \n {5}
\def \radius {3cm}
\def \margin {8} % margin in angles, depends on the radius

\foreach \s in {1,...,\n}
{
  \node[draw, circle] at ({360/\n * (\s - 1)}:\radius) {$\s$};
  \draw[->, >=latex] ({360/\n * (\s - 1)+\margin}:\radius) 
    arc ({360/\n * (\s - 1)+\margin}:{360/\n * (\s)-\margin}:\radius);
}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

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Stefan

[phponline]

Thank you for your quick reply.

But "Additional it would be nice to arrange the nodes in the shape of a circle, too." meant that I would like to arrange the nodes 1-9 in the inner of a shape of a circle as you can see in the following MWE.
The space between shape and first node and between last node and shape should be equal and that for each row.

In the second row of nodes in the MWE you can see that space is needed in this row for this condition.
It would be really nice if I can give a macro the nodes and the shape and the macro does what I have done manually in the MWE.

Code of the MWE:

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning, calc}

\begin{document}


\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[thick] (0cm,0cm) circle(4.5);
\tikzstyle{every node} = [draw, thick, circle, anchor=west];
\node[anchor=center] (n1) at (-1.95,3.5) {1};
\node (n2)  at (n1.east)  {2};
\node (n3)  at (n2.east)  {3};
\node (n4)  at (n3.east)  {4};
\node (n5)  at (n4.east)  {5};
\node (n6)  at (n5.east)  {6};
\node (n7)  at (n6.east)  {7};
\node[xshift=-9, yshift=-6, anchor=north east] (n8)  at (n1.south west) {8};
\node[xshift=1] (n9)  at (n8.east)  {9};
\node[xshift=1] (n10) at (n9.east)  {0};
\node[xshift=1] (n11) at (n10.east) {1};
\node[xshift=1] (n12)  at (n11.east) {2};
\node[xshift=1] (n13)  at (n12.east) {3};
\node[xshift=1] (n14)  at (n13.east) {4};
\node[xshift=1] (n15)  at (n14.east) {5};
\node[xshift=1] (n16)  at (n15.east) {6};
\node[xshift=-2, yshift=-6, anchor=north east] (n17)  at (n8.south west) {7};
\node (n18)  at (n17.east)  {8};
\node (n19) at (n18.east)  {9};
\node (n20) at (n19.east) {0};
\node (n21)  at (n20.east) {1};
\node (n22)  at (n21.east) {2};
\node (n23)  at (n22.east) {3};
\node (n24)  at (n23.east) {4};
\node (n25)  at (n24.east) {5};
\node (n26)  at (n25.east) {6};
\node (n27)  at (n26.east) {7};

\end{tikzpicture}


\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You could make a (double) \foreach loop, running over x any y coordinates with (diameter) step, which would place nodes in a quadratic grid. Set the node only if the condition is met that the distance to the circle center is less than the radius (minus the small radius).

Stefan