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I want to draw different kinds of graphs which I want to define using styles. One particular graph has labelled nodes, and I want to be able to attach these labels using a custom key (cn).

The following document demonstrates this, the problem is, that the node labels specified using cn do not show up.

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}

\tikzstyle{RegionGraph}=[
  every node/.style={fill=blue!20},
  every edge/.style={draw,latex-},
  cn/.style={label={#1}}
]    

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[RegionGraph]
  \draw (0,0)   node[cn=1] (lr1) {$X_1$}
        ++(2,0) node[cn=0] (lr2) {$X_2$} edge (lr1);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Where as, when I add the definition of the cn-style directly to the picture, like in the following code, the labels do show.

\begin{tikzpicture}[RegionGraph,cn/.style={label={#1}}]
    ...

What am I doing wrong and how can it be fixed?

2 Answers 2

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When you nest the style definitions you need to double the number of # characters as when they get expanded they halve the numbers. So if you nest it in three levels it needs ####1 with four levels eight times etc. That's why labels don't appear because #1 holds the argument for RegionGraph but you meant cn's own argument at the time when it is defined.

\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}

\tikzset{RegionGraph/.style={
  every node/.style={fill=blue!20},
  every edge/.style={draw,latex-},
  cn/.style={label={##1}}
}}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[RegionGraph]
  \draw (0,0)   node[cn=1] (lr1) {$X_1$}
        ++(2,0) node[cn=0] (lr2) {$X_2$} edge (lr1);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
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  • This works, and also explains the problem. Thank you.
    – ziggystar
    Jan 29, 2015 at 13:47
  • @ziggystar My pleasure
    – percusse
    Jan 29, 2015 at 13:48
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Use tikzset instead of tikzstyle:

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}

\tikzset{
  every node/.style={fill=blue!20},
  every edge/.style={draw,latex-},
  cn/.style={label={#1}}}


\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
  \draw (0,0)   node[cn=1] (lr1) {$X_1$}
        ++(2,0) node[cn=0] (lr2) {$X_2$} edge (lr1);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

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  • But now every picture has these styles applied. I want the style to be only valid in pictures with style RegionGraph.
    – ziggystar
    Jan 29, 2015 at 11:05
  • Use tikzset definition in only desired tikzpicture.
    – user31034
    Jan 29, 2015 at 11:12
  • But then I have to define it each time anew. Basically I want that adding RegionGraph to a picture enables the use of cn on the nodes of the picture. But maybe I have to settle with enabling cn globally for all nodes.
    – ziggystar
    Jan 29, 2015 at 11:17

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