TikZ is a higher-level drawing language built on top of the PGF graphics framework. For questions specifically about the PGF layer use {pgf-core} instead. Both tags are possible on the same question.
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Get the head, the tail, and the last element of a comma-separated list
I have a comma-separated list, stored in a macro. It is non-empty, and it has commas between the elements but not at the start or end. How can I get:
the first element (a.k.a. the "head")?
the last ...
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Aligning tikz nodes to tabular cells?
I would like to make a Zwicky Box by using tabular combined with an overlaying tikzpicture. How can I (semi-)automatically align nodes to the vertical and horizontal center of their corresponding ...
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Crossing paths in TikZ without intersection
Once again, I'm preparing a new logic puzzle; Resuko to be precise.
For the race track, I would like to have a symbolized bridge/underbridge -|-. I searched this site, but only found this question: ...
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Error when creating a surf plot with matlab2tikz
I'm using matlab2tikz to generate the tikz code for my figures. When compiling the document with the figure code as below, i get an error:
Package pgfplots Error: No such element: ...
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Pattern in \addplot inherits dashed option from previous \draw
I want to fill the area between two curves with a pattern, let's say horizontal line.
Since I want some other dashed lines below these curves, I use \draw[dashed] and then \addplot[pattern=horizontal ...
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Connecting nodes with brace in TikZ
How would be possible to put a brace instead of a "line" connecting nodes and add some text above it with TikZ?
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error while converting surf error to tikz [duplicate]
I have used matlab2tikz to convert a figure from matlab to tikz, but while compiling it gives following errors
main.tex:170 Package pgfplots Error: No such element:
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Irregular Polygon with Angle Labels
I am looking to create the 15-sided irregular polygon figure below, without having to declare coordinates for each point.
Is there an easier way to do this? Tikz? PGF?
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Draw a cylindrical spiral with TikZ
I want to make a tikzpicture to illustrate the construction of a spiral capacitor.
These are made of spiral coiled films. So imagine a rectangular paper that you tail around one side. Thats basically ...
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Minipage: trouble getting figures at top of page
I'm trying to fit these to flowcharts in one page. This is what I got so far, not so nicely done I think. Any suggestions how I can get the flowcharts at the top of the page, nicely next to each other ...
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How to adjust the sign of implication sign
I want to get the following implication arrows:
But according to percusse's suggestion not implies, not Leftarrow, description in the middle of an arrow in TikZ-cd I would get this:
As you can ...
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pgfplots: How to move bar labels [duplicate]
2 questions:
1) How do I move my data labels to the center of my bars?
2) How do I make the labels be purely data labels, and not cumulative values? eg I want the red bar labels to be the value of ...
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PGFPlot/Tikz Legend Error
I wish to add a legend to my two plots - red and black, but the legend seems to have some scaling issues. I think it may be due to the changes made in shifting and domains, but I am not sure!
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not implies, not Leftarrow, description in the middle of an arrow in TikZ-cd
Is there a way to put $\nLeftarrow$ instead of some arrows in TikZ? Specifically, how do I change it to "B does not imply A" in the following code.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz-cd}
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How to draw the right ascension and declination of a vector in a rotated coordinate frame in TikZ?
During my research I came across the illustration of two reference frames. In my opinion this illustration is lacking, because the coordinate systems are not drawn. This makes it hard to understand, ...
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Append two lists for TikZ foreach loop
How can I make a TikZ foreach loop iterate over two lists consecutively? I had hoped that in my code below, the expression \firstlist,\secondlist would evaluate to 2,3,5,7,1,4,6, but it doesn't work. ...
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PGFPlots append text to all contour labels
Is it possible to append a text suffix (in my case a unit) to all labels in a PGFPlots contour plot?
For example, consider the following plot:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
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Conflict between TikZ and *.cls file
I am attempting to convert a document from one class to another. In the original class, I am able to use TikZ and PGFPlots for my graphics. However, in the new class, I receive the following error:
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How to draw and insert a symbol in TikZ
I want to make a symbol as shown below in TikZ.
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[thick] (0,0) rectangle (3,1);
\draw[thick] (0.5,0) -- ...
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Nodes near coords gives Undefined Control Sequence
I have the following example of a graph. I want to place the items in the table "Restart" next to the nodes. Everything works until I add "nodes near coords", I get a bunch of errors saying "Undefined ...
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Semantics for parametric plots with pgfplots
I wasn't able to find in the pgfplots manual the exact semantics for pairwise mathematical expressions. Could you clarify the following variations?
% Assume x(t) is parametrized by t in [0,1] and ...
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Tikz: avoid two arcs in a graph being merged into one two-sided arrow [duplicate]
I'd like to paint a directed graph G(V,A) with directed arcs. The problem is that if I paint 2 arcs, one from a to b and one from b to a, the two arcs get merged into one two-sided arrow (not sure if ...
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Possible to combine “…” and “x/y” in TikZ's foreach?
I'll start with a simple, minimal non-working example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\foreach \x/\y in {1/20,2/18,...,10/2}
\node at (\x,0) {\y};
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Boxed text between pages
I've made boxed text into a manuscript using tikz by following the example in texamples, it works like a charm as long as the box is short enough to fit into a page.
\documentclass{article}
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pgfplots scale legend position when below xlabel
When using matlab2tikz to generate a .tikz from Matlab where the legend location is set to 'SouthOutside' (below the ylabel of figure), the position of the legend will cover the ylabel unless the ...
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How to rotate a TikZ label
I need to place information below and to the right of a grid. I was not able to rotate the label text of a node. I ended up using \rotatebox, but is there a pure TikZ solution?
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How to reuse the plotmark styles from PGFPlots outside the tikzpicture environment?
In a figure caption or in the main text I want to reuse the style of the plotmarks or the combination of line and symbol as in the figure legend. As I did not find a command to reuse the legend image ...
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How to add PGF plot marker separately to document? [duplicate]
Say I have some PGF plot, which uses some custom plot markers, for instance:
\newcommand{\scaleofcirc}{0.85}
\pgfdeclareplotmark{manualcirc}
{
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New line in pgfplots/tikz not displaying in TeX
I have a multiple-line legend entry to preserve the width of my figure. I can use
\newline in Matlab and the legend entry is split between two lines. When I produce a .tikz of the figure however, I ...
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Access loop variable outside loop
Here's what I have created, but how could I access the loop variable \n outside the foreach loop so that I could write sth like this:
\n = \n + 1 % this is definitely not right, and it seems I ...
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How to align parent nodes to the left/top in a tree
I am drawing trees in LATEX. The qtree library seems to be what I need but the parent is always placed in the center of its children like this:
parent
/ \
child_1 child_2
(I'm a new ...
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Rounding a coordinate in TikZ
I'm trying to combine animate's \multiframe command with a TikZ \fill command so that in every fourth frame, the top of my rectangle is moved by one unit:
\multiframe{20}{rya=10+-0.25}{
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Add labels to y ticks in bar chart [duplicate]
I'm just starting to mess with pgfplots and just had a quick question in formatting bar charts. Specifically, I was trying to add labels to each of my y ticks and i couldn't figure it out.
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Help with installing gnuplot in MacTex and using it with LaTeX
I have to draw a lot of PDF and CDF graphs in my document/presentation and in order to do that I installed gnuplot. In order to install gnuplot I took the following steps:
1- Download the sources ...
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Commonly used arrows with TikZ
In a previous question Gonzalo Medina and Peter Grill gave a solution to replace the \to arrow by an arrow generated by TikZ.
For some people using TikZ in commutative diagrams, it would be perhaps ...
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Gaussian ellipsoids using tikz
I'm trying to draw illustrations of Gaussian ellipsoids using shaded ellipses.
In simple terms what I'm after is a way to have a light shade throughout the outer edge of the ellipse and a darker shade ...
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How do I encircle a partial table in tikz?
I am trying to create a diagram that looks roughly like this picture:
Except that I want it to have rounded corners. It seems that the obvious way to do this would be to use tikz, so I have made ...
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Strange error when combining Beamer, Animate, Tikz and Listings
I'm working on some slides where I show how code is actually executed in Java. Therefore I'm working with the animate package to generate animations.
Without going into details, I've written a macro ...
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Modulo calculation in PGFplots tick label
I am printing a diagram and want to use a_[0...3] as tick labels on the x-axis. Right now I have a[0...7] as labels and look for a way to print a[\tick mod 4] (i.e. a_0, a_1, a_2, a_3, a_0, a_1, a_2, ...
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Drawing a root-less graph of nodes with shared children
My aim is to produce a graph as illustrated by the code below: ( I am not yet allowed to post pictures)
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[node distance=4cm]
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english documentation of tkz-euclid [closed]
I just can't find the english documentation of tkz-euclid.
ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/tex/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/tkz/tkz-euclide/README
says
http://altermundus.fr (en français) or ...
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tikzpicture within figure caption [duplicate]
Has anyone an idea how to use tikzpicture WITHIN a figure caption? What I want is, plot a blue circle withing a figure caption, like:
\begin{figure}[ht]
%...
\caption{CaptionText \begin{tikzpicture} ...
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MATLAB like command box
hello i am trying to set up style for script box.
so far i got
\begin{script*} >> help \end{script*}
working and displaying
i want final version to look some what similar to this picture
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Decimal number in axis tick using: “x tick=data” [duplicate]
I have found the following problem during the building of an histogram:
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{/pgf/number format/use comma,compat=newest}
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Modifying `*` and `o` style tikz arrows so that they are centered at the end of line
I would like to use tikz * and o arrows to indicate included/excluded
endpoints in plots of piecewise functions, like for example the following one:
However, it seems that tikz always aligns the ...
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pgfplots, toks, position of pin edge
I want to use pins to comment specific points in a diagramm. When I use a edge like -> it works fine. But if I use *- for example then the center of the dot is not at the position it should be. ...
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Syntax Highlight in Winedt
I am using Winedt 7.1 and learning TikZ and I am thinking about to add the commands to the keyword.ini, in the help they mentioned, adding to many keywords may affect the performance. Is there a ...
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Define tikz node based on pagenodes
I want to define a tikz node called current grid area based on the nodes defined by the tikzpagenodes package. This node is a rectangle that contains the 4 nodes defined in the package; current page ...
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How to define the default vertical distance between nodes?
Use positioning can control the individual vertical position of nodes. But is there any way to control the default vertical spacing?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
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Using remember picture with pgfplots
The two rectangles in the example plot, by my reckoning, should overlap exactly. I would be most grateful if somebody could explain why they don't! My presumption is that this is a bug in my TikZ ...
