LaTeX – Gantt Chart

Today, I found an interesting (LaTeX) package, pgfgantt. This package provides a ganttchart environment and, as its name indicates, can produce Gantt charts.

The framework of using the package can be illustrated as

usepackage{pgfgantt}
...
begin{ganttchart}[OPTIONS]{STARTING}{ENDING}
  TITLE
  CHARTELEMENT
end{ganttchart}

where

• OPTIONS can be
  • time slot format with candidates: simple / isodate / isodate-yearmonth / isodate-year / little-endian / middle-endian / big-endian.
  • newline shortcut can turn \ into a new line break, equivalent to ganttnewline.
  • vgrid / hgrid specifies the presence and appearance of the vertical/horizontal grids.
  • today can indidate the current day/month/year by a vertical rule at the provided time.
  • today label can specify the label for today.
  • inline can put the labels inside the corresponding bars.
  • x unit / y unit
  • x unit title / y unit title
  • x unit chart / y unit chart
  • expand chart can automatically expand the chart horizontally, e.g., textwidth.
• STARTING is the starting date of the chart.
• ENDING is the ending date of the chart.
• TITLE can be
  • gantttitle[OPTIONS]{LABEL}{NUMBEROFTIMESLOTS}
  • gantttitlelist[OPTIONS]{LABELLIST}{LENGTHOFEACHELEMENT} defines a series of gantttitle in a batch way.
  • gantttitlecalendar[OPTIONS]{CALENDARLINES} with CALENDARLINES a comma-separated list of lines, e.g., decade, year, month=name/shortname, day, week, weekday=name/shortname, etc.
  • gantttitlecalendar*[OPTIONS]{STARTING}{ENDING}{CALENDARLINES} is similar to gantttitlecalendar[OPTIONS]{CALENDARLINES} but constrained to a range defined by STARTING and ENDING.
• CHARTELEMENT is predefined chart elements as follows.
  • ganttgroup[OPTIONS]{LABEL}{STARTING}{ENDING} combines several subtasks (bars) into a single task.
  • ganttbar[OPTIONS]{LABEL}{STARTING}{ENDING} indicates the duration of a task/subtask.
  • ganttmilestone[OPTIONS]{LABEL}{TIME} signifies a milestone, e.g., the completion of a task.
  • ganttlinkedgroup[OPTIONS]{LABEL}{STARTING}{ENDING} is similar to ganttgroup[OPTIONS]{LABEL}{STARTING}{ENDING} but additionally draws a link from the previous element.
  • ganttlinkedbar[OPTIONS]{LABEL}{STARTING}{ENDING} is similar to ganttbar[OPTIONS]{LABEL}{STARTING}{ENDING} but additionally draws a link from the previous element.
  • ganttlinkedmilestone[OPTIONS]{LABEL}{TIME} is similar to ganttmilestone[OPTIONS]{LABEL}{TIME} but additionally draws a link from the previous element.
• CHARTELEMENT has an interesting option progress, whose value can be none / today / PERCENTILE.