{tikz-styles} are predefined sets of options that organizes how graphics elements are drawn. It is thus possible to program specific styles and reuse the styles on different objects. The {tikz-styles} tag can be used in parallel with {tikz-pgf}.
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Nested styles in TikZ
I have:
\pgfkeys{/TransformerNetwork/.style={
transformer/.style 2 args={draw, cylinder, gray!80, rotate=90, minimum height=#1, minimum width=#2},
}}
And then:
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Off page connector using Tikz
I'm creating a flowchart using TikZ. You can see my code so far below.
But now I want to create an off page connector:
I don't have a clue how to implement this in my \tikzset.
Furthermore I ...
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How do you draw this prism in tikz/pstricks
The numbers are in Persian (side SB=6 and angle SBA=60 degrees).
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What's going on with this syntax “somename/.style={…}”
I'm finding the following preference loading syntax popping up a lot in the newer packages:
From tikz
\tikzset{help lines/.style=very thin}
From tcolorbox
\tcbset{noparskip/.style={before....}}
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When to use TikZ styles?
I planned to illustrate how a quadtree data structure I'm using is implemented, showing all internal pointers and arrays. The image will look something like this:
(Here, if a pointer points at the ...
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Custom sibling angle for child nodes
As I explored the TikZ manual and available examples; the position of child nodes are defined within the parent node. This means that all child nodes spread on the same radius from the parent with ...
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How to apply Tikz-styles in a /tabular{} definiton
I'm just starting out with Tikz, and find it amazing - but a bit overwhelming too. So here is an absolute beginners question:
I copied this form somebody:
% Draw inside tables:
% Some options ...
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How to share selected options between different nodes in TikZ?
(I didn't find a better title for the question. Suggestions are welcomed.)
I have created some new shapes in TikZ and I would like to put one of them below another one when a certain key is passed to ...
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Determining tikz drawing style, depending on the values of two nested loop iterators
So the question is a tikz one!
Assume that you are drawing things inside two nested foreach loops in tikz, and the iterator variables are \x and \y. What I'd like to obtain is to be able to specify a ...
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How to add new line character in the node
I wish to add the new line character in the node, however, I tried several ways, all cannot work.
\node[draw, minimum width = 2em, minimum height=1em] (a) {get \\ flight(gf)};
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How to make a full equation with tikz?
I am using this solution here to make long dashes within a matrix, and it is working well. The code is:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{matrix}
% possible to customize here ...
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Extract x, y coordinate of an arbitrary point on curve in TikZ
We have very nice
Extract x, y coordinate of an arbitrary point in TikZ
\documentclass{article}
%\url{http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/33703/86}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings}
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how to add dotted line and arc line?
I wish to add dotted line connecting two nodes and an arc line as described in the photo.
Here is my code:
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{
shapes.geometric,
positioning,
...
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why does latex report errors when using styles in a tikz pgf picture?
I get three errors when attempting to build the following example (with the tikzpicture taken from the tikz pgf manual). Why does this happen, and what am I doing wrong?
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
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Define a color in a tikz style
How do I do a definecolor in a /.style?
\pgfkeys{/IMMstyle/.style={
inputnode/.style={shape=ellipse,draw,inner sep=2pt,minimum size=5.0mm},
\definecolor{dpred}{rgb}{0.50,0.35,0}
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Tikz: Styling a node to display text on the right of a dot
I am trying to create a LaTeX document using the Tikz library, more particularly an E/R Diagram. I have downloaded the tikz-er2 additional library, but I am having an issue with the display of ...
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Styling tikz-timing signal lines
I'm using the tikz-timing package and would like to apply either snakes type of styling, or say the double for double lines to signal lines. Consider the example below:
\documentclass{article}
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Sudoku - Special styles for hints
In the following code, I would like to use one style so as to color background for each hint, and not all the hints, and I would also like to put each single hint in a rounded rectangle.
This is to ...
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Overlay LaTeX/TeX coding easily on PDF with 300 pages
I've been looking for a way to overlay TeX/LaTeX i.e maths language etc (everything LaTeX is designed for) onto a background document containing 310 pages combined together in a PDF file.
So far I ...
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Join point by using Tikz in Beamer document class
I know my question is trivial. By the way, I can not show points given by their coordinates with a Bezier curve using Tikz.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
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why my pic was changed by un-used tikzstyle
In a joint file, my picture was changed by some un-used global tikzstyle, which is added by other. Here is a minimal example. The output dots become bigger if I un-comment the commented line.
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How do I define tikz styles with a xkeyval command?
I would like to write a command which allows the user to change tikz styles. My code goes like this:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz,xkeyval}
\makeatletter
\def\DEFstyle{}
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Options passed to a path inside insert path style
Is there a way to give to the \path (inside mypath style) the options given to the \draw and \fill commands (ideally, the path should be drawn and red then filled and blue) ?
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anchor arrow start position
Attached below is the minimum working example. I would like the arrow to end at the
west anchor of the node "operation". I tried anchor and few other possibilities but they don't seem to affect the ...
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Problem about pattern and gradient
I draw a graph using the code below
.
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{
shapes.geometric,
positioning,
fit,
calc,
patterns
}
\usepackage{tikz}
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Using counter values as part of style name for plots
I figured I should be able to give a bunch of line styles and access them using counters. Sure enough, this works out fine; this document
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz,pgfplots}
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whitespace after heading when followed by \begin{tikzpicture}
The first chapter section of a book to use tikz ended up placing a great deal of whitespace after the section heading. I've tried \vspace adjustments, but it changes all the vspaces between \begin ...
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Command to set cycle list position?
Is there a command to (re)set the starting point of a cycle list?
What I am using now is the cycle list shift command but I end up doing some time consuming calculations and my code is oftenless ...
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TikZ edge thickness causing errors in foreach loop
I'm experiencing some weirdness in making a simple TikZ diagram (a comb-shaped graph with variable number of nodes). The weirdness comes from the style applied to the edge paths. Here's the ...
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How to adust the location of the inner component in the Outer component constructed by “fit”?
I use "fit" to make two small rectangles inside a bigger rectangle. And then add some words at the top of the bigger one, which causes a large blank space at the bottom of the bigger rectangle as ...
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How to modify just some nodes' styles in chemfig
In the following molecular drawing, I want to only circle the rightmost OH of the first molecule and the leftmost H of the second, to show that they are the ones that are involved in the formation of ...
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How can I set the node size for a TikZ image to be the same for all nodes?
I'm attempting to draw a Kripke structure in TikZ and while I'm successful for the most part, I'm not quite satisfied with the result. Here is my preamble:
\documentclass[10pt,letterpaper]{amsart}
% ...
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Styling the text placed on \path [line] using \tikzstyle.
I'm new to LaTeX and I'm trying to work out how I can configure TikZ to position the text ON the connecting lines (rather than beside it) in this flowchart and then give that text a filled white ...
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Commutative diagram using TeX Writer
I bought an ipad app TeX writer and I am wondering if I can draw a commutative diagram.
It includes the packages
amslatex
revtex4-1
IEEEtran
babel
cyrillic
graphicx
color
xcolr
geometry
algorithm2e
...
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Tikz-timing: using an arrow for a vertical line like G (glitch) symbol?
I just asked this question: Does the program counter always have to change (upon an instruction tick)? - Stack Overflow, where I used the following code:
% min-timing.tex
% pdflatex min-timing.tex ...
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Draw inside nodes to get BPMN gateway shapes
This question is a follow up to How to draw inside a TikZ node, using node style?
I am trying to get the AND and XOR gateway from BPMN as seen here ...
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Tikzstyle for 2:1 Mux
Could someone help me with a \tikzstyle for this trapezium block:
I tried but look how it looks like:
The main problem it is in how to set the text (0 1) in the right place.
The code I'm using ...
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TikZ: remove/override auto option (arrow label positioning) from a defined style
I have a defined style which I am applying to many arrows. Most of the time, I want them to have label nodes positioned using auto, but occasionally I do not. Currently, I simply add auto wherever ...
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TikZ - Changing the “z-index” of backgrounds
In the following code, I would like to place the backgrounds under the numbers and not the contrary as it is the case actually.
Screenshot
Code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
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Nested rectangles
I am trying to get this figure:
The figure is generated by the following code:
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{fit,shapes,backgrounds,arrows}
\begin{document}
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Arrow scaling problem. How can I zoom properly a very tiny part of a drawing?
Thanks to this solution, I can draw tangent line to a path. I'd like to zoom a very little part of my drawing.
Here it is the code:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
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Dependent node size in TikZ
I'm producing some control theory flow sheets in TikZ where I have specified the node box size. Since I'm making a lot of these flow sheets, I have set global styles for them, for instance the box ...
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pgfplots - axis xmode/ymode in user-defined style
I would like to specify xmode and ymode for the axis with \pgfplotsset (or any other way, so that the mode can be changed by an if statement) The error message which I get is:
! Package pgfplots ...
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How can I have smaller font than \tiny? [duplicate]
I'm using tikz for drawing, and the label are to big, I'm using the font=\tiny parameter, but it's still to big.
How can I reduce more the font size?
\draw [<->,line width=0.02cm] ...
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Arrow decoration in TIKZ [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
TikZ: How to draw an arrow in the middle of the line?
I'd like to use Tikz for drawing Feynman diagrams. I found an example in TeXample, but it looks inefficient.
One ...
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How can I make the path picture bigger? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How should I draw a singly/double linked list?
I am currently trying to create an image of a linked list like this one:
This is my current try:
What I miss is the ...
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change color of nodes in pgfplots bar plot [closed]
I have a bar plot which print the number next to the bar.
The text is however not very well readable due to the color applied to it.
Therefore I would like to know how to modify its style.
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! I can't find file `pgflibrarytikz*.code.tex' [closed]
I can compile the following LaTeX:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows,backgrounds,plotmarks}
\begin{document}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing ...
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the problem about putting one picture on the left and another on the right
I wish to put two graph together, one is on the left side, the other is one the right side.
I use "minipage". However, using the below code, the first graph is on the top of the second graph. May ...
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how to set the size of the star? [duplicate]
I wish to draw the picture described How to add the circle, star inside the diamond?
I tried the code:
\node[draw, fill, star, star points=6, minimum size=0.1mm,above=of aux, anchor=center]{};
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