Writing descriptive diagrams

A descriptive diagram typically represents terms and explanations and connects or aligns them for illustration.

You know the standard LaTeX description environment. Let’s create a diagram in a similar layout to make it visually stunning.

First, we choose the fonts, a very large font for the items and a small font for each description, all in sans-serif font:

\smartdiagramset{description title font=\sffamily\LARGE,
  description font=\sffamily\footnotesize}

Now, we use the descriptive diagram type of smartdiagram and give a list of pairs of titles and descriptions, each pair in braces. Remember, since the comma is used to separate list items, we have to use additional braces if a description contains a comma itself. Also, end the list with a comma, since smartdiagram uses it to properly parse all items. We can come up with a code to describe PGF and TikZ:

\smartdiagram[descriptive diagram]{
  {PGF, {Portable Graphics...