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How to draw a line of dots in tikz?

Instead of drawing a dashed line as follows: \draw [dashed] (10,1) -- (10,11); I would like to draw a list of dots from (10,1) to (10,11), like ........., but vertically. Could anyone tell me what ...
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Using "◌" in Latex - "Unicode char \u8:Γùî not set up for use with LaTeX"

How can I use the character ◌ (25CC): http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/25cc/index.htm ? I am using MikTex (pdflatex) under Window; I am importing the following packages: \usepackage[T1]{...
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Draw Nuclear Reactor with moving flows

I want to draw a nuclear reactor. In texamples.net there is a template which is pretty much what I would like to do. The code is % Pressurized Water Reactor % Author: Gloria Faccanoni <http://www....
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how can I fix my tikz circle to do what I want

Below is the minimal example of my code. I would like the dotted line to stay within the circle rather than overshooting it like it currently is but I am not able to figure out how this can be done. ...
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Matrices upper triangular alignment

I was writing an upper triangular matrix but due to large entry was unable to get in a good view. \documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{amsmath,mathtools} \...
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A dotted circle: control size of dots and distance between them

My MWE is: \documentclass{minimal} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{calc} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \draw[red,dotted] (0,0) circle (2); \draw[black,thick] (5,0) circle (2); \end{...
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How to make a figure with moving arrows?

How could I make the following figure? My code so far is: \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage[english,greek]{babel} \usepackage{ucs} \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} \usepackage[usenames,...
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pgfplots - dotted line style - why square dots?

When using dotted line style in a pgfplot, I realised that the dots are really square dots. Usually most people associate dot with a filled circle(or is it just me?). And I know that there are ...
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How to draw general functions and tangent lines

I wanted to draw following graphs of two general functions of Geometric interpretation of the Euler method. Thanks in advance
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How to draw a dotted hydrogen bond with Chemfig?

I would like to draw a compound with a hydrogen bond with the chemfig package. Usually, this is drawn with a dotted line. However, this seems not to be a standard bond for this package (i.e. it is not ...
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How to label a TiKz shape for referencing its legend in the caption

How can I label a TiKz line style for further referencing in figure caption. For \addplot the label just follows it. However, I don't know how to do it for \draw. MWE: \documentclass{book} \...
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How to make an edges dotted

I have the following, picture and I want to make the edges between 1 and 3 and 1 and dotted. Also if I want to put names on the edges in the pictures how do I do that? \documentclass{article} \...
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Draw dotted line with circled dots and automatic spacing

I'm trying to create dotted lines with tikz where every dot has a defined size and a circle around it, with also a defined size. First I applied this answer to create a dash pattern: \tikzset{ ...
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Draw Tikzpicture

I would like to draw the following picture using tikzpicture. Could you please help me? Thanks in advance. Regards, MSA
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Custom dot pattern in fitted node

It is fairly easy to draw a dotted line from the north to the south coordinate of a fitted node: \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{matrix} \usetikzlibrary{fit,shapes....
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