Bdtyktl

In this question, Alan Munn provided an example of how to draw a stack in LaTeX:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{tikz}

usetikzlibrary{shapes.multipart}

begin{document}

begin{tikzpicture}[stack/.style={rectangle split, rectangle split parts=#1,draw, anchor=center}]

node[stack=5]  {

nodepart{two}a

nodepart{three}b

nodepart{four}c

nodepart{five}d

};

end{tikzpicture}



end{document}

However, I would like to display 4 stacks side-by-side. How can this be done?

To place additional stacks just portion the new nodes appropriately:

Code:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{tikz}

usetikzlibrary{shapes.multipart}



begin{document}

begin{tikzpicture}[

    stack/.style={rectangle split, rectangle split parts=#1,draw, anchor=center}

]



node[stack=5] (A) {

    nodepart{two}a

    nodepart{three}b

    nodepart{four}c

    nodepart{five}d

};

node[stack=5, right of=A] (B) {

    nodepart{two}a

    nodepart{three}b

    nodepart{four}c

    nodepart{five}d

};

node[stack=5, right of=B] (C) {

    nodepart{two}a

    nodepart{three}b

    nodepart{four}c

    nodepart{five}d

};

node[stack=5, right of=C] (D) {

    nodepart{two}a

    nodepart{three}b

    nodepart{four}c

    nodepart{five}d

};



end{tikzpicture}%

end{document}

with library matrix:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{tikz}

usetikzlibrary{matrix, positioning}





begin{document}

    begin{tikzpicture}[node distance=1cm]

matrix (m) [matrix of nodes,

             nodes={draw, minimum width=1.5em, minimum height=2ex, outer sep=0pt},

             row sep    = -pgflinewidth,

             column sep = -pgflinewidth % <--- as matrix

             ]

{   a   &   a   &   a   &   a   \

    b   &   b   &   b   &   b   \

    c   &   c   &   c   &   c   \

    d   &   d   &   d   &   d   \

};

matrix (n) [right=of m,

             matrix of nodes,

             nodes={draw, minimum width=1.5em, minimum height=2ex, outer sep=0pt},

             row sep    = -pgflinewidth,

             column sep = 2em  % <--- as separate stacks

             ]

{   a   &   a   &   a   &   a   \

    b   &   b   &   b   &   b   \

    c   &   c   &   c   &   c   \

    d   &   d   &   d   &   d   \

};

    end{tikzpicture}

end{document}

Really just 4 fun (and to answer a TikZ question with a non-TikZ answer, usually I am doing the opposite ;-).

documentclass{article}

usepackage{youngtab}

begin{document}

young(~,a,b,c,~)quadyoung(~,a,b,c,~)quadyoung(~,a,b,c,~)quadyoung(~,a,b,c,~)

end{document}

Here I use stackengine instead of tikz. I create the macro wstack with a comma separated list to stack. The term wboxstrut defines the minimum vertical footprint of the stacked items, initially set to the footprint of w and later changed to strut, which will have the effect of aligning all box edges.

Automatically adjusts to content width.

It uses fboxrule and fboxsep to define the box rule and offset.

documentclass{article}

usepackage{stackengine,listofitems}

defwboxwidth{.7em}

defwboxstrut{vphantom{w}}

newcommandwbox[1]{fbox{makebox[wboxwidth]{#1wboxstrut}}}

newcommandwstack[1]{%

  setsepchar{,}%

  setstackEOL{,}%

  savestacktmp{Shortstack{#1}}%

  defwboxwidth{wdtmpcontent}%

  readlistboxitems{#1}%

  savestackboxbuild{wbox{boxitems[-1]}}%

  foreachitemxinboxitems{%

    ifnumxcnt=1relaxelse%

      savestackboxbuild{stackon[-fboxrule]{boxbuild}{wbox{boxitems[-xcnt]}}}%

    fi%

  }%

  boxbuild%

}

begin{document}

wstack{,a,b,c,d}

wstack{,a,b,c}

wstack{b,c,d}

wstack{,aaa,b,c,d}qquad

defwboxstrut{strut}

wstack{,a,b,c,d}

wstack{,a,b,c}

wstack{b,c,d}

wstack{,aaa,b,c,d}

end{document}