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creating double sided arrow with tikz [duplicate]

Ho can I make a figure like the following with tikz package?
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Adding a large brace next to a body of text

I'm writing a short document listing some chronological events. I want to pick out a period with a big brace. Here's a quick mockup: What's the best way to do this? Can I set the size declaratively - ...
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What are the new features in TikZ/pgf 3.0?

Since the December 20, 2013, we have new major release of the wonderful TikZ/pgf package: version 3.0.0! 1 Unfortunately, I was not able to find a nice human readable list of changes, that goes to ...
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The belt for chain of gears

I want to draw like this Gears I created based on rpapa's codes. \documentclass{article} \usepackage[dvipsnames,svgnames]{xcolor} \usepackage{tikz} \newcommand{\gear}[3]{% \def\modu{#1} \def\Zb{#...
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How to solve the 10.09999 rounding problem with pgfmath?

I'm trying to create a technical drawing of a magnetic write head with dimensions on it. I'm using some macros which help a lot from here: Dimensioning a technical drawing. \documentclass{beamer} \...
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How to omit printing the decimal part in pgfmath macros

In Dimensioning of a technical drawing in TikZ a very nice solution to mark lengths on a drawing has been given that uses pgfmath's capability. How do I omit having the decimal part of the number ...
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How can I draw engineer dimensioning diagrams?

How can I draw engineer dimensioning diagrams in LaTeX? For instance, What I currently do is drawing the diagram in MS Visio, save as a pdf file and then embed it into LaTeX. (It is not easy to type ...
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How to define at tikz style option to draw a dimension line between to specific points

I want to create a LaTeX package called for example dimension to provided a tikz style option named for example dimstyle. Then given two points A and B we can use this style to draw a dimension line ...
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Optimizing code for dimension arrows (CAD) in TikZ

In Engineering it is customary to denote small dimensions with arrows as shown below (in binding correction and trim top): Variants exist such as Currently they are all hardcoded as for example: ...
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Drawing a diagram with arc and angle

I am new to LaTeX. I need to draw the following in TikZ or PSTricks. But TikZ is preferable.
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Tikz - move/reposition arrow decorations (arrowhead length/size)

I'm trying to build a 'dimension line' macro for Tikz: \documentclass{article} % note: with \documentclass{minimal}, this example fails with: % ! Undefined control sequence. % \pgf@lib@dec@computed@...
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Adding dimensions to TikZ pictures

How do you add dimension labels to TikZ pictures? Ideally, it would look something like this: |<----- dimension ----->| I would like to do this to show the measurement of both straight lines (...
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How to Put Tikz label of Length

I am very new to Tikz. Now I want to get this done... THere must be a simple way to do so... Thanks.
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new command, pfgkeys within pfgplots axis environment

I am trying to setup an command to create technical drawing dimensions (inspiration from Dimensioning of a technical drawing in TikZ). I would like to use pgfkeys for that, in order to pass multiple ...
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How to add backgorund zeros on a cover page of a documents like in the screen of Matrix movie?

I want to first make a black (or other colour) cover photo and then want to use zeros, Feynman Diagram etc. distributed randomly on the page with green colour fonts. The font must be light so that I ...
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