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tkz-orm is a LaTeX package to draw Object-Role Model (ORM) diagrams. It uses the ORM2 syntax as proposed by Halpin (2005) with minor additions and modifications.

The example directory is inspired by the TikZ and PGF examples at texample.net Their source
code is also available at Google Code

TODO

Bug reports and feature requests can be added as Github Issue . Some unordered thoughts are listed here:

• add objectification
• add role brackets
• better support of prefered uniqueness constraints
• alternative syntaxes for binary relations
• automatically replace < and > by arrowheads if at start or end of a string
• automatically add role name brackets
• subtyping in constraint color?
• additional ring constraints
• more examples
• better document ring constraints

References

• T. Halpin (2005): ORM2 Graphical Notation (PDF)
• tkz-orm package at CTAN