Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Drawing a lattice/grid

[niles]

Hi guys

I wish to visualize a lattice in my document (i.e. a grid). What I am searching for is something like the attached picture.

I've been toying a little with Tikz, but I did not get a useful result. Mainly because I think the text inside the circles is too big. I have tried using [font=\small], but it' still a little too big.

Do you have any suggestion on how I should create this?

Sincerely,
Niles.

[localghost]

What you want is a matrix. For this special purpose with math expressions you have to use the »matrix« library. See Section 31 (Matrix Library, p. 278ff) of the pgf/tikZ manual and the code below.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{matrix}

\begin{document}
  \begin{tikzpicture}
    \matrix [
      matrix of math nodes,
      nodes={circle,draw},
      minimum size=1.2cm,
      inner sep=1mm,
      column sep=5mm,
      row sep=5mm
    ]
      {
        1 & 2 & \vphantom{1}\ldots & N_x \\
        N_{x+1} & N_{x+2} & \vphantom{1}\ldots & \vphantom{1}\ldots \\
        \phantom{1} & \vphantom{1}\ldots & \vphantom{1}\ldots & \phantom{1} \\
      };
  \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Please give final feedback to provided solutions. Until now you haven't done that to none of your requests.


Best regards
Thorsten

[niles]

Thanks. That is exactly what I am looking for.

Have a nice day.

[localghost]

[...] Have a nice day.

There's not much left of the day. It's 11:25pm here.

[niles]

[...] Have a nice day.

There's not much left of the day. It's 11:25pm here.

Well, in that case have a nice evening