15 questions linked to/from How can I force TikZ pin angle?
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### Strange behaviour of pin angles with PGFPlots [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I force TikZ pin angle? TikZ node pin angle in 2D plot I need to have some marks in a diagram pointing at characteristic points of the plot. To not have the text ...
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### TikZ set node label position more precisely

This seems like it should be really easy but I can't seem to find it anywhere... I'd like to be able to fine-tune the positioning of a node label. I'm aware of the \node[label=above/below/etc:{label}...
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### Combining |- and !.5! in TikZ

How do I combine the !.5! operator with the -| operator? I want a node that has x-coordinate equal to the average of x coordinates of nodes A and B, and a y-coordinate equal to the average the y ...
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### How can I set the TikZ label anchor explicitly?

I want to add a label to a node, but "inside" the node. Something like this: The manual seems to indicate it might be possible, although no actual key is named. The ... anchor point for the label ...
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### How do I debug pgfkeys?

I'm sure if you're reading this question you are already familiar with my love for pgfkeys. However, it is absolutely impossible to debug: \tracingmacros is a total mess, with every key expanding to ...
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### TikZ parallel Edges between Nodes

I'm looking for a simple way to draw the following picture using TikZ. Namely, I would like to only specify the coordinates of the cities and then to connect them by edges using a \foreach loop. This ...
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I was looking for a possibility to adjust the anchor of the text of a pin. Tikz does not allow this out of the box. This question was already asked on the mailing list pgf-users@lists.sourceforge....
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### TikZ node pin angle in 2D plot

I would like to rotate the pin corresponding to the point -3.09% to the left, but when I increase the angle past 87, it snaps to 90 and the minus sign gets in the ticks and even at 87, it doesn't look ...
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### How to anchor labels in tikz for baseline alignment

LaTeX handles subscripts and superscripts nicely, automatically correcting for various sizing and placement issues. I am trying to build a function that works like subscripts and superscripts, but ...
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### Unable to set the text and its pin in correct orientation in Tikz pie chart

I am modifying the pie chart, which is available here. In case of small slices, text inside the pie chart overlaps to each other. So I am trying to write the text and value outside the chart. Below is ...
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### Positioning text at node

This should be a simple question about positioning text with nodes using pgfplots. To make a skew node line with text I'd use \documentclass{article} \usepackage{pgfplots} \pgfplotsset{compat = ...
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### How can I force the pin angle in a TikZ data visualization?

Please note that I am not using the pin option of a node as in How can I force TikZ pin angle? and TikZ node pin angle in 2D plot, but am instead using the pin in data option in a TikZ data ...
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### Labels at an angle: an unexpected gap

I am trying to put some labels at some angles: \documentclass[14pt]{extarticle} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}[label distance=0.5cm] \node[draw,circle, minimum size=10cm, ...