I have seen How to allow labels' anchors in TikZ to be affected by rotations without rotating the text itself?; but that question doesn't seem to answer my problem, so here it goes.
With the MWE below, I get this as the node diagram that I want:
If I uncomment rotate=180 and anchor=center, I get this below - it is good the text in labels is not rotated, as I want it, but the composition is otherwise a mess:
Finally, if I also enable/uncomment the transform shape - the composition is better for some elements, worse for others, but now also text in labels is rotated, which I don't want:
So the question is - is there a way to rotate the whole composition correctly, AND not have the text in nodes rotated? My desired output, faked in GIMP:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
\usetikzlibrary{fit}
\makeatletter
% https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/47709/2595
\tikzset{
fitting node/.style={
inner sep=0pt,
fill=none,
draw=none,
reset transform,
fit={(\pgf@pathminx,\pgf@pathminy) (\pgf@pathmaxx,\pgf@pathmaxy)}
},
reset transform/.code={\pgftransformreset},
}
\makeatother
\begin{tikzpicture}
\tikzstyle{drc} = [draw, rectangle, line width=1pt, align=center]
\tikzstyle{arr_edge} = [>=latex,->, line width=1pt]
\node[] (tdrag3) at (27.5,1.5) {};
\begin{scope}[shift={(tdrag3)},
%rotate=180,
%anchor=center,
%transform shape,
]
\node[drc,anchor=south west] (nd01) at (0,0) {Some \\ Words};
\node[drc,anchor=south] (nd02) at (3.5,2) {Some Terms};
\node[drc] (nd03) [above=0pt of nd02] {Something};
\node[drc] (nd04) [above=0pt of nd03] {Some Notions \\ Emulation \\ (Next)};
\draw[drc] (5.5,1.5) rectangle (12,5.5) node[fitting node] (nd05) {};
\node[drc,anchor=south,minimum width=6cm,minimum height=0.8cm] (nd06) [above=5pt of nd05.south] {Generic Definition Terms};
\node[drc] (nd07) [above=5pt of nd06.north east,anchor=south east] {Tests \\ (Conversion, Exchange, etc.)};
\draw[drc] let \p1=(nd06.north west), \p2=(nd07.south west), \p3=($(nd07.north west)+(-5pt,5pt)$), \p4=($(nd07.north east)+(0,5pt)$) in (\x1,\y2) -| (\x3,\y3) to node[above left=2pt and -2em]{Plain access} (\x4,\y4) -- ++(0,0.8cm) -| (\x1,\y2);
\node[align=center] (nd05titl) [below=2pt of nd05.north,anchor=north] {Generic Definition};
\draw[drc] (-0.5,6) rectangle (7.5,9) node[fitting node] (nd08) {};
\node[drc] (nd09) [above right=0pt of nd08.south east, anchor=south east] {Generic List Terms\\Word\ Number\ Variable\ Constant} ;
\draw let \p1=(nd01.center), \p2=(nd09.north) in node[drc] (nd10) at (\x1,\y2) [below=0pt,anchor=north] {Some Terms};
\node[drc] (nd11) [above=0pt of nd10.north,anchor=south] {More Than\\Interesting};
\node[drc] (nd12) [above=0pt of nd09.north,anchor=south] {Generic\\List One};
\node[align=center] (nd13) [below=2pt of nd08.north,anchor=north] {Another List};
\draw[arr_edge] (nd01) -- (nd10);
\draw[arr_edge] (nd11) -- (nd12);
\draw[arr_edge] (nd09) -| (nd05);
% wrap in calc $$ for tikzedt
\draw[arr_edge] (nd04) |- ($(nd05.north west)-(10pt,10pt)$) -- ($(nd05.south west)-(10pt,7.5pt)$) -| ($(nd06.south west)+(10pt,0)$);
\end{scope}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
{Node label}with{\rotatebox{180}{Node label}}and then rotate the whole document. However, since some labels span more than one line, you would then have to reverse the order of those lines, and apply\rotateboxto each line. It's such a case-specific solution I don't think it's a solution at all, but I'm pretty sure it will work. – Jānis Lazovskis Mar 27 '14 at 03:49