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Different xstep and ystep in TikZ with to[path] (precisely to[grid with coordinates])

As it's my first question, I want to say hello first! I am using [grid with coordinates] code from Andrew Stacey answer (link) for How can I show coordinates by grid in TikZ automatically?. I ...
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Is fine-grained grid control possible?

I want to make a variety of checklists which are essentially based on a grid layout. I care about having fine-grained control over the exact placement of labels and boxes. I do not care about ...
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Fill a grid with TikZ

How do I fill a grid in TikZ? I want to do something like: \draw[draw,fill=red!20] (0,0) grid (2,2); instead of manually drawing 4 rectangles.
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Loop Over Grid File

I have a grid file with data such as: 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 2 1 0 3 0 0 3 1 where 5 is the width of the grid, 4 is the height, and each number in the grid corresponds to an elevation. I can ...
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Off Grid Circuitikz Symbols

Shouldn't circuits line up on the grids? Otherwise, drawing code get messy -- really quick. I have found pins-to-grid alignment to be common practice in most the Schematic/Diagram programs I have ...
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Tikz and pgf: Grid of Dots with Text and Circles

I wish to have a grid of points or dots along with the labels, and combine them into a single figure like the one below. I tried the closest graph I can for the first grid in the top left, and ...
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Change the appearance of grids in pgfplots

I am asking if there is a command in the pgfplots package that changes the appearance of the grid in terms of kind of the lines. What I mean is how to change the kind of lines. I have read the ...
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Small grid with no labels

How do I remove all labeling from a small grid to be used for a math test? I have created the grid with \graphpaper but get coordinate labels that I don't want.
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Missing horizontal or vertical lines when drawing backwards TikZ grids

Look at next code, when I want to draw a grid from right to left or top to bottom, vertical or horizontal lines are not drawn, even with xstep=-1 or ystep=-1 (as it's suggested in Jake's answer in ...
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How to draw triangular grid in TikZ?

Is there an easy way to draw a triangular grid in TikZ, like this?
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How to only draw grid lines for ticks with labels in pgfplots?

I'm using the dynamic dict from mail-archive.com It generates automatically the data for the x axis. I want only every second (or every third, ...) tick and grid line. I've already managed to omit ...
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how to draw a hexagonal grid with numbers in the cells

The problem of drawing hexagonal grids has been discussed here: Drawing Hexagons I want the shape of the grid to be hexagonal and furthermore, I want to be able to add numbers in the hexagonal cells. ...
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Drawing hexagons

I have a case where I need to draw a hexagonal grid in LaTeX. I am considering just reading the grid from an eps file. Is there an alternative way to do it completely within LaTeX?
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Is there any way to remove mesh lines completely in a pgfplots faceted 3d plot?

I can not seem to find the way to remove the lines in the surface mesh in a 3d faceted plot. I need a solution that does not use the "shader=interp" (i.e. gradient filling) so that the faces are ...
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Creating a grid which fills available text area on a page in ConTeXt?

I have some pages containing only a small paragraph at the top and a large empty area where readers can add notes or draw, e.g.: _______________ | | | This is some | | text in a pa- | ...
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TikZ Grid Without Edges

I have a TikZ grid \draw[step=0.5cm,color=gray] (0,0) grid (3.5,3.5); But I'd like to draw the grid without edges, or with half of the edges cells missing, so that it appears to be a small section ...
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Grid missing horizontal lines

The following code: \begin{figure}[!t] \centering% \begin{tikzpicture}[xscale=1,yscale=1,auto, inner sep=0pt,remember picture] \node[anchor=north west,inner sep=0] (image) at (0,0) ...
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Changing grid size in tikz-timing package

The grind in the figure contain a grid of 2x8 squeezers (2 rows and 8 columns) and I use 4 elements. How could I tell tikz-timing to use a grid of 1x4 squeezers? Below is an example of my code: ...
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Background baseline grid with output routine

I am trying to get a baseline grid in the background of every page. I am using the plain format with XeTeX. This is what I have tried: \baselineskip=13pt \topskip=0pt \parskip=0pt \newbox\gridbox ...
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Best way to create a photo directory?

I'm trying to use LaTeX to create a photo directory. On a given page, I want it to have a grid of photos (which are of varying aspect ratios) with the information for that person above/below the photo ...
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Tikz Polar Grid

I'm working on a Smith Chart using TikZ. Currently I'm writing it with everything scaled to a unit circle (centered on 0,0 with a radius of 1) without units. Then scaling so it's a reasonably sized ...
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Grid customized

I would like to build a grid such as the figure shown below where each grid point is surrounded by some of the two curves that describe below. First curve: an outline around the point forming a ...
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Canvas transformation of grid to curvilinear grid

I would like to draw a curvilinear grid/mesh like this (sorry for freehand drawing) I thought the easiest (and most elegant) solution would be to apply a canvas transformation to a regular grid in ...
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How can I show coordinates by grid in TikZ automatically?

I have the following TikZ code which draws a grid and shows the coordinates. To display the coordinates I am using the loop foreach. \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} ...
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How can I create an angled grid in a 2D PGFPlots plot?

Is it possible to make PGFPlots display 45° height lines in an axis? Basically, what I am looking for is a grid defined by y=-x + k*1000, k being a natural number. My numbers are rather large, e.g. y ...
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Drawing a tree of grids

I need to draw a game tree that is similar to the image below. Is there any way to do this using the Tikz package so that the grids can simply be added as nodes?
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Missing TikZ grid borders

As in here, the code \draw[step=0.5cm,color=gray] (-1,-1) grid (1,1); gives me a nice finite 4x4 grid. But when I choose a different starting point, like \draw[step=0.5cm,color=gray] (2,2) grid ...
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Grid to facilitate positioning of objects with \put in beamer

In presentations with the beamerpackage I use \put a lot to place graphic objects like this: \newcommand{\putat}[3]{\begin{picture}(0,0)(0,0)\put(#1,#2){#3}\end{picture}} % just a shorthand ...