Add new line in chronoevent with chronosys

Question

I'm creating a timeline using chronosys package but I have some issue adding a new line inside a chronoevent.

Example:

%!TEX TS-program = xelatex
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{chronosys}

\begin{document}

\section{Timeline}
\startchronology[startyear=2005, stopyear=2023, height=1ex, color=blue, arrowcolor=blue, dates=false]
\chronoevent[markdepth=150pt, datesstyle=\footnotesize, textstyle=\it \footnotesize, barre=false, datesseparation=/, conversionmonth=false]{07/2005}{test1\\test2}
\chronoevent[markdepth=180pt, datesstyle=\footnotesize, textstyle=\it \footnotesize, barre=false, datesseparation=/, conversionmonth=false]{12/2009}{test3\\test4}
\stopchronology

\end{document}

The keyword \\ is not working and I'm not able to create a new line. I tried with \newline as well with no success. Any suggestion?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You might, if you are feeling intrepid, try chronos. This is an experimental package and not currently on CTAN. It is based on my answers on TeX SE and some other code I used for timelines.

Caveat emptor ...

Looking just-like-chronosys-but-tweaked isn't chronos's default, but it is quite configurable.

The following example reproduces the MWE from the question and then illustrates a version using chronos rather than chronosys. The code uses showframe to mark the page layout. Note that the original timeline extends into the margin.

The example demonstrates one way to get multiline texts with chronos, using explicit \\ s. An alternative would be to specify text width and let the content be automatically split accordingly.

Note that two-letter font commands are seriously obsolete in LaTeX and ought not be used. Depending on your class, they may even give errors.

\documentclass{article}
% ateb: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/701756/ i gwestiwn neoben: https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/699595/
% https://codeberg.org/cfr/chronos
\usepackage{chronos}
\usepackage{chronosys}
\usepackage[showframe]{geometry}

\begin{document}
\texttt{chronosys}

\startchronology[startyear=2005, stopyear=2023, height=1ex, color=blue, arrowcolor=blue, dates=false]
\chronoevent[markdepth=150pt, datesstyle=\footnotesize, textstyle=\it \footnotesize, barre=false, datesseparation=/, conversionmonth=false]{07/2005}{test1\\test2}
\chronoevent[markdepth=180pt, datesstyle=\footnotesize, textstyle=\it \footnotesize, barre=false, datesseparation=/, conversionmonth=false]{12/2009}{test3\\test4}
\stopchronology


\centering

\begin{chronos}
  [
    off line simple,
    timeline={%
      dates=2005:2023,
      timeline width=\linewidth,
      timeline height=1ex,
      timeline years=none,
      timeline foreground=blue,
    },
    every event below,
    event={%
      date format={!m/!Y},
      text tag+={%
        font=\normalsize\rmfamily\itshape,
      },
      date font=\footnotesize\upshape,  
    },
  ]
  \chronosevent{date=2005-07,name=t1,name content={test1\\test2},yshift=-150pt}
  \chronosevent{date=2009-12,name=t2,name content={test3\\test4},yshift=-180pt}
  \chronosmaintitle{name=\texttt{chronos}, at=chronos end, yshift=-10mm, anchor=north east}
\end{chronos}

\end{document}