milestonetimeline - Horizontal Milestone Timeline Package

Description

The milestonetimeline package provides a flexible way to create horizontal milestone timelines in LaTeX documents with support for date-based positioning, label rotation, and per-milestone customization.

Author

Bret Watson <bret@ticm.com>

License

GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0)

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Dependencies

• tikz
• xifthen
• xparse
• kvoptions

Features

• Date-based positioning (ISO format: YYYY-MM-DD)
• Automatic spacing (when no dates provided)
• Customizable label rotation (0°, 45°, 90°)
• Per-milestone height control
• Highlighted milestones (different color/shape)
• Compact and vertical presets
• Date markers on timeline

Installation

Option 1: CTAN (Recommended)

# Once published on CTAN, install via your TeX distribution
tlmgr install milestonetimeline # TeX Live
# or use MiKTeX Console for MiKTeX

## Usage

latex documentclass{article} usepackage{milestonetimeline}

begin{document} begin{timeline}width=14,startdate=2025-01-01,enddate=2025-12-31 milestoneabove{2025-01-15}{Kickoff} milestonebelow{2025-06-30}{Midpoint} highlightmilestoneabove{2025-12-31}{Complete} end{timeline} end{document}

Documentation

Run latex dottimeline.dtx to generate documentation.

Version

1.0 (2026-02-25)

Bug Reports

Please report issues at: https://github.com/baradhili/latex-linear-milestone-timeline