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How to draw the following picture in LaTeX,

enter image description here

I tried to use the following code but it doesn't work.

\begin{figure}[H]
\centering
\begin{tikzpicture}
  \matrix[matrix of nodes,row sep=2em] (m)
  {
    $N$: & 1      & 2      & 3      & 4  &\ldots          &n-1   &n     \\
    $N'$:& 2       & 3      & 4      & 5  &\ldots          &n     & n+1 \\
  };
  \foreach \y in {1,2,3,4,n-1,n} {
    \foreach \x in {2,3,4,5,n,n+1} {
      \draw[<->] (m-\y-\x) -- (m-2-\x);
    }
  }
\end{tikzpicture}
\captionsetup{labelformat=empty}
\caption{\label{fig:f4}Figure 1.4}
\end{figure}
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    Tip for the future: you could expand a little on "it doesn't work" to give answerers a hint as to what they might expect to see when they try your code. "It doesn't work" could mean anything from "the arrows go to the wrong places" to "my computer overheated and I had to call the fire brigade". – Andrew Stacey Apr 11 '16 at 13:57
  • I was going to try to learn LaTeX (downloaded it and everything), but my brain hurts just from reading this, so I'm guessing it takes a lot more smarts than I have handy. How disappointing. But good to know before I jump into it. – Shalryn Apr 11 '16 at 17:59
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    @Shalryn well, I'd hope it would be clear that reading this question is not a good way to learn LaTeX! It's a complicated system but there are a number of good manuals out there. See this question for some pointers. – David Z Apr 12 '16 at 06:04
  • Am I mistaken or the \label should go after the \caption command, and not inside it? – Bakuriu Apr 12 '16 at 11:06

3 Answers3

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TikZ doesn't name your nodes by their contents so you can't refer to the nodes as 1,2,3,4,5,n,n+1. Rather you have to refer to them by their position, so you want the 2nd, 3rd, 4th (etc) nodes across. You also only need to iterate over the columns since you're doing one thing to each column and not doing anything on a per-row basis.

\documentclass{article}
%\url{http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/303682/86}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{matrix}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}
  \matrix[matrix of math nodes,row sep=1cm,column sep=.5cm] (m)
  {
    N: & 1      & 2      & 3      & 4  &\ldots          &n-1   &n     \\
    N':& 2       & 3      & 4      & 5  &\ldots          &n     & n+1 \\
  };
  \foreach \x in {2,3,4,5,7,8} {
    \draw[<->] (m-1-\x) -- (m-2-\x);
  }
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

As all your nodes are actually maths, you can use matrix of math nodes. I also spaced out the columns a little.

nodes along

(I lied a little. You can get TikZ to name the nodes whatever you like. However, in this case I think that using the positions is as simple a naming scheme as any.)

Andrew Stacey
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the cells of the table should be numbered with the number of line and column, here is a solution

Please note, your source can not be compiled, the next time, proposes a minimum compilable source

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations, positioning, intersections, calc,matrix}%
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\usepackage{bodegraph}

%\usepackage{align}

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{tikzpicture}
  \matrix[matrix of nodes,row sep=2em] (m)
  {
    $N$: & 1      & 2      & 3      & 4  &\ldots          &n-1   &n     \\
    $N'$:& 2       & 3      & 4      & 5  &\ldots          &n     & n+1 \\
  };
  \foreach \y in {2,3,4,...,8} {
      \draw[<->] (m-1-\y) -- (m-2-\y);
  }
\end{tikzpicture}
\caption{\label{fig:f4}Figure 1.4}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

enter image description here

rpapa
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You may also use the external program ipe to draw your image as a pdf, to be included into the LaTeX file. The ipe manual is sufficient, and the software itself is pretty much self-explanatory.

I attached the output provided by ipe.

ipe drawing

Victor
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