# Creating triangle commutative diagram with tikz-cd

I've just started using TikZ and need to create a simple triangle commutative diagram like this one.

The closest I've been able to get is this.

How do I get the h arrow to go from A2 to A3? Everything I've tried just causes errors.

Here's my current code:

\begin{tikzcd}[column sep=small]
A \arrow{r}{i}  \arrow{rd}{g}
& A3 \arrow{d}{h} \\
& A2
\end{tikzcd}


The basic idea for triangular diagrams is to consider more columns, in this case three; you may want to play with column sep or row sep in order to get better distances, as shown.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz-cd}
\begin{document}
$\begin{tikzcd} & A \arrow{dr}{g} \\ B \arrow{ur}{f} \arrow{rr}{h} && C \end{tikzcd}$
$\begin{tikzcd}[row sep=2.5em] & A \arrow{dr}{g} \\ B \arrow{ur}{f} \arrow{rr}{h} && C \end{tikzcd}$
$\begin{tikzcd}[column sep=1.5em] & A \arrow{dr}{g} \\ B \arrow{ur}{f} \arrow{rr}{h} && C \end{tikzcd}$
\end{document}


If you want to try this with QTikZ, you need a suitable template; create the text file tikz-cd-template.pgs with

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz-cd}
\begin{document}
<>
\end{document}


Choose the template and then paste the part of the above code which is between \begin{document} and \end{document} in the input window for QTikZ. Here's a picture of the result.

If you have an old version of tikz-cd (which might be the case on Ubuntu or other GNU/Linux boxes) it may be necessary to start the diagram with {}:

$\begin{tikzcd} {} & A \arrow{dr}{g} \\ B \arrow{ur}{f} \arrow{rr}{h} && C \end{tikzcd}$


• For some reason, your code doesn't work on my system (TeXLive running on Ubuntu 14.04 and using QTikZ for graphics editing and preview). Here's the error I'm getting: Missing character: There is no A in font nullfont! [LaTeX] Line 2: Package pgfbasematrix Error: Single ampersand used with wrong catcode. [LaTeX] Line 2: See the pgfbasematrix package documentation for explanation. ... l.-5 &A \arrow{dr}{g} \\ [LaTeX] Line 2: ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF f – jaia Jul 14 '14 at 20:51
• @jaia Hmm, are you using that inside the argument to a command? What TeX distribution are you using? – egreg Jul 14 '14 at 20:54
• I'm using the latest version of TeX Live. Not sure what you mean by "inside the argument to a command". (I'm mostly a LyX user and rarely deal with straight LaTeX.) I just pasted everything between the \begin{tikzcd} and \end{tikz} tags between those same tags in QTikZ. – jaia Jul 14 '14 at 21:02
• Also, could you please point me to a good explanation of the column thing and how that works? – jaia Jul 14 '14 at 21:04
• @jaia I don't know what to say; what latest version of TeX Live are you running? If you're on Ubuntu, it's not the latest version, I'm afraid. Anyway, try with {} before the first & – egreg Jul 14 '14 at 21:30