Line breaks in TikZ nodes

Question

I have this code that outputs a small family tree

    \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{tikz}
    \usetikzlibrary{trees}
    \begin{document}
    \begin{tikzpicture}[
      man/.style={rectangle,draw,fill=blue!20},
      woman/.style={rectangle,draw,fill=red!20,rounded corners=.8ex},
      grandchild/.style={grow=down,xshift=1em,anchor=west,
        edge from parent path={(\tikzparentnode.south) |- (\tikzchildnode.west)}},
      first/.style={level distance=6ex},
      second/.style={level distance=12ex},
      third/.style={level distance=18ex},
      level 1/.style={sibling distance=5em}]
        % Parents
        \coordinate
          child[grow=left] {node[man,anchor=east]{Jim}}
          child[grow=right] {node[woman,anchor=west]{Jane}}
          child[grow=down,level distance=0ex]
        [edge from parent fork down]
        % Children and grandchildren
        child{node[man] {Alfred}}
        child{node[woman] {Berta}}
        child {node[man] {Charles}}
        child {node[woman]{Doris}};        
    \end{tikzpicture}
    \end{document}

and what I want to do, is to write 2 lines of text in each box (e.g. Jim and underneath his DOB). How do I break a line in order to do that? \\ doesn't work.

Here is a printscreen of the output:

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score 39 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 10 '20 at 12:32

Add align=center to the style if you want to use \\:

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Code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{trees}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[
  man/.style={rectangle,draw,fill=blue!20, align=center},
  woman/.style={rectangle,draw,fill=red!20,rounded corners=.8ex, align=center},
  grandchild/.style={grow=down,xshift=1em,anchor=west,
    edge from parent path={(\tikzparentnode.south) |- (\tikzchildnode.west)}},
  first/.style={level distance=6ex},
  second/.style={level distance=12ex},
  third/.style={level distance=18ex},
  level 1/.style={sibling distance=5em}]
    % Parents
    \coordinate
      child[grow=left] {node[man,anchor=east]{Jim}}
      child[grow=right] {node[woman,anchor=west]{Jane}}
      child[grow=down,level distance=0ex]
    [edge from parent fork down]
    % Children and grandchildren
    child{node[man] {Alfred \\ 05-04-83}}
    child{node[woman] {Berta \\ 05-04-99}}
    child {node[man] {Charles \\ 05-04-77}}
    child {node[woman]{Doris \\ 05-04-80}};        
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

@DanielNovais: You may apply align=center to all nodes via every node/.style={align=center}. — Tobi, Apr 05 '12 at 18:18

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 18 '17 at 09:21

3

You could try to use a table (two rows) (tabular env) in the content; though, I have no the required package to check if it would work or that is not allowed. E.g.

  \begin{tabular}{c}
     Jim \\
     DOB \\
  \end{tabular}

If \\ does not work since it was changed someway by the package, then you could try \cr, but I suppose it could not work and if it works, it is bad LaTeX (too much TeXish).

edited Jul 18 '17 at 09:21

David Carlisle

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answered Apr 05 '12 at 17:09

ShinTakezou

338

Thanks, it worked just fine. Yes it is kind of a bummer but it works! – Apr 05 '12 at 17:27

Line breaks in TikZ nodes

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