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How do I pass two parameters to a tikz style? I would like to do something like this:

\begin{tikzpicture}[
    transformer/.style={draw, cylinder, gray!80, rotate=90, minimum height=#1, minimum width=#2},

And then, I want to use this style in a node:

\node [transformer{2.3cm}{1cm}] () at (0,0.6) {};
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    Use style 2 args, see page 493 of the manual (sorry, I'm currently to lazy to write and test a complete answer).
    – Caramdir
    Jun 22, 2011 at 19:02
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    @Caramdir: Thanks for the link. Much appreciated — absolutely no need to apologize.
    – Neil G
    Jun 22, 2011 at 19:04
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    I think you have to use something like [transformer={2.3cm}{1cm}]
    – Peter Grill
    Jun 22, 2011 at 19:04

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz} 
\usetikzlibrary{shapes}  
\begin{document}
 \thispagestyle{empty} 

 \begin{tikzpicture}[
    transformer/.style 2 args={draw, cylinder, gray!80, rotate=90, minimum height=#1, minimum width=#2}]

\node [transformer={2.3cm}{1cm}] () at (0,0.6) {};
\end{tikzpicture}  
\end{document}
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    Indeed, there is also .style n args={<number of args>}{<style>} for more arguments and .style args={<parameter text>}{<style>} which allows to define the arguments using a parameter text like \def does.
    – Martin Scharrer
    Jun 22, 2011 at 21:04
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    how can I achieve this with using \tikzstyle ?
    – bonanza
    Feb 25, 2016 at 16:59
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    You can't, I think
    – Yossi Gil
    Aug 15, 2016 at 19:30
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    Where is this documented? I tried 1 args and 1 arg and arg and it doesn't seem to work.
    – Jason S
    Aug 20, 2021 at 22:14
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    @JasonS one argument is implicit, use regular t/.style={color=#1} and \node [t=blue] {};
    – derptank
    Mar 24 at 21:38

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