Questions tagged [contour]
This tag is about the "contour" package which generates a colored contour around given text characters. For contour plots use {diagrams} or the specific package tag.
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how to see background image through contour outline
I am trying to make a book cover with the title a contour outline over an image, where you can see the image through the letters. Essentially, I would like the color of the fill (textcolor) to be &...
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Contour drawing in TikZ
I'm trying to draw the following image in LateX,
but some parts are missing. I'm not able to add arrows on the arc and I don't know how to add 1/4 at the center of the circle.
The code that ...
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How do I draw the integration path in the complex plane in the case with two branch cuts? [duplicate]
This is the picture of a graph I would like to plot. This is what I have tried to do, what is missing is how to align all of the points properly so that it looks nice.
\documentclass{article}
\...
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Letting drawings ignore a contour without drawing over the label
I used the contour package to label an edge. I wish for other edges, to not be interrupted by the contour around the label. This can be achieved by just drawing those edges after the labelled one. But ...
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Color flashcards with flashcards document class
I would like to specify the background (or border) color of a flashcard with the "flashcard" document class, how can I do that?
Here a minimal exemple:
\documentclass[testpage,grid]{...
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In Pgfplots, 'contour prepared' is not showing contour lines
I'm trying to plot a 2D contour using pfgplot. The way of contour lines executions is inappropriate. I need to plot black/white smooth contour for 10 levels with self-labeled.
Please help me with this ...
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How to underline text from a macro when using Alex Chan's implementation of 'a really nice underline'
Following David Carlisle's answer in How to underline text from a macro including a line break?, I am attempting to adapt David Carlisle's use of \expandafter to allow linebreaks (when underlining ...
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Adding contour outline to whole document?
My document has background pictures on every page. Thus, in some cases the text is quite hard or unpleasent to read due to similarity of font color and background color. I´d like to know if there is ...
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How to use contour in math mode for italic symbols?
I'm trying to make bold symbols bolder in math mode (\boldsymbol isn't bold enough for my liking), and so far the best solution I've found is using contour. However, when contour is used within math ...
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How to make bigger the contour integral symbol [closed]
Someone knows if the circle of the integral can be bigger?
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Problems using Contour Plot
I am new here in the forum and hope you can help me with a problem with Tikz. My goal is to create a map (see attached image for template).
Unfortunately, I am having trouble getting the colors to ...
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How to Outline a Feather (Psvectorian Image)
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\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{pstricks,psvectorian}
\RequirePackage[copies]{contour}%
\begin{document}
\contourlength{1pt}
\newcommand*{\outline}[1]{\color{white}\contour{black}{\...
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Cannot Produce Contour Outlining on Pgothic Text
I compile the following code with pdflatex:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{pgothic}
\usepackage{cabin}
\usepackage{pdfrender}
\usepackage[outline]{contour}
\contourlength{1....
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Draw contour on top of a discrerete heatmap
I have a discrete heatmap, and I would like to draw a contour plot to emphasize, for example, regions where z > 35. Do you have any suggestions on how to achieve this?
The code I have for the ...
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PGFPlots washed out contour plots in some PDF viewers (addplot3)
I figured out, that only using Adobe Acrobat Reader I get a proper result for the code below. In other viewers, the result looks washed out, the colorbar has a wrong colorcode and the value of samples ...
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Pgfplots contour / axis on top = false
In spite of axis on top = false option, the 0 contour line in the following MWE, which is the x=0 equation line, doesn't appear.
Any solution ?
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\...
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How to apply contour for all content in the document output?
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage[letter, total={5in, 10in}]{geometry}
\usepackage{amsfonts, amssymb, amsmath, amsthm}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[outline]{contour}
\usepackage{xcolor}
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Unwanted contour shift for coloured characters
When I'm adding a contour to my coloured maths I get a shifted halo when a \textcolor{} command is encountered. How can this be fixed?
\documentclass[border=2pt]{standalone}
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{...
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Clever Underlining
I'm using ulem package to perform clean underlining as advised here
https://alexwlchan.net/2017/10/latex-underlines/
It works like a charm, but the line stays at the same thickness whatever the font ...
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draw paraboloid and contour curve
I want to draw the following graph, especially the contour curve what is black line on the surface of the paraboloid
my MWE is as follows
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[xmin=0, xmax=3, ymin=0, ...
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How to use subfig, psfrag, and contour packages with LaTex
I'm trying to combine the aforementioned packages to produce a Figure in LaTex, but it isn't working correctly. The subfig and psfrag packages work correctly and the labels get replaced properly. ...
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How pdfrender package can have the same output like simple contour
I am trying to use simple contour for a text. Unfortunately, as the text is inside an element and multiline, I was forced to use alternatives (see here or here). Using pdfrender package almost works, ...
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Easy way to change character line thickness
I am using some characters as reference marks. The ©, ℗ and ® are just what I need. However I need to use a circled dot as well. The circled dot I found, is of a much thinner line. Everything else ...
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pgfplots contour lua with data in external file
i am working on a lot of measured data stored in a file, which i want to visualize with a contour plot. There I have coordinates x and y and a value z as function of x and y, which should be used to ...
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problem with contour,sty with XeLaTeX
My codes are follow:
\documentclass[]{book}
\RequirePackage[cmyk]{xcolor}%
\RequirePackage[outline]{contour}%
\begin{document}
\newcommand*{\outline}[1]{\color{white}\contour{black}{\Huge#1}}%
\...
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Contour Plot for least squares problem with discrete topology
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There are many helpful examples on creating contour plots in LaTeX using tikz and pgfplot. Yet all the examples so far cover contour plots in the continuum. How would one make a contour plot ...
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How can I make math symbols one color and have a different color outline?
When I use something like \[\textcolor{White}{\contour{green}{\alpha}}\] the alpha comes out in green, not white, and has no outline whatsoever. How can I fix this? I want it to be in white with a ...
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Multiple contour plots with different colormaps using pgfplots
Using the beautiful pgfplots system, I would like to create a diagram that contains three contour plots for the same pair of axes, with each plot using a different colormap. The following code works:
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pgfplots does not render the plot properly --- strange line pattern appearing
When I run the following code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.8}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[colorbar,
colorbar style={
ytick={-1,...
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problems with pgfplots contour gnuplot
I tried to plot the contour of a xyz matrix using pgfplots contour gnuplot, but got the error message from the .log data (My data is in the test pic.tex file)
Package pgfplots notification 'compat/...
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Include “contour” package into matlplotlib and set title using it
I transfer the initial post from stackoverflow since one said it is rather a question for Tex exchange (I am going do delete the initial one). Here is this post :
In a matplotlib script, I try to ...
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Pgfplots polar contour plot from file table with shading
I want to generate a polar plot with a colorbar quite similar to this one:
from this question: Rotating polar contour plot messes with alignment of plot and axis
I want to use this file with the ...
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Define an underline with white contour that allows breaklines and hyphenation
I define an underline (based on the following site: https://alexwlchan.net/2017/10/latex-underlines/).
This was my initial code:
\usepackage{ulem}
\renewcommand{\ULdepth}{1.8pt}
\contourlength{0.8pt}
\...
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Contour integral plot
As of now I have the code below (thanks to @AndréC), but I was hoping to also include an additional semi-circle, seen in the hand-drawn image. I am sorry, I am not so good with tikz, yet. Thank you!
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How to deform contour in tikz
I am trying to figure out how I can connect the curve along A to K with the top-right-most point. In other words, I want to still have a little more of the circle left on the right piece of the plot; ...
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TikZ: Modify a contour of complex analysis
I would like to modify the black curve in order to include the red dashed line that now is left outside. The arc around the origin should instead be around the red point in the lower-half of the ...
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Equating Feynman blob diagrams with Tikz-Feynman
I am trying to use tikz-feynman (on overleaf) to generate some Feynman diagrams. I wish to equate blob diagrams in particular, and I managed to get something working, but it doesn't look presentable ...
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How can I draw gradient arrows on iso-contour
Using pgfplots I draw the isocontour of a function f(x,y): lines such as f(x,y)=C with C a chosen number.
See below example with:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=...
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PDF version <1.7>, but at most version <1.5> allowed
I used a C++ function my teacher gave us to create some ppm files, which I then converted to the eps format using an online resource for use in my report. However, these images are causing problems. ...
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Rotating polar contour plot messes with alignment of plot and axis
I am generating polar contour plots. In my industry, it is convention to put 0 degrees on the bottom rather than the right. My initial attempt was to use rotate=-90 within the polaraxis environment, ...
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Filled contour with Matlab data, pgfplots
I'm using contour prepared format=matlab to plot a contour, as sugested in pgfplots manual, but I'm not able to combine it with the contour filled option. I've modified the C data from [C,h]=contourf ...
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Counterclockwise arc integral Latex Symbol [duplicate]
Looking for the code for a Latex integral symbol with a half circle, concave cave down, and an arrow pointing in the clockwise direction. Does such a symbol exist?
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How do I create a "flashcards" document with a crosshatch background pattern to reduce transverse legibility?
I've been using flashcards a lot, via the "flashcards" package of Alexander Budge. Usually I print them on card stock but sometimes this can be inconvenient, for example most home-office duplex ...
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Projecting contour on the floor in a 3d plot
The contour is drawn on the top surface, I'm trying to plot the contour on the floor (A-B).
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{width=10cm, compat=1.9}
\begin{document}
\...
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TikZ: Define a style of node that puts halo/contour around text [duplicate]
How put halo around text using the contour package as suggested in this answer in many nodes by defining a style?
MWE:
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\usepackage[outline]{contour} %halo around ...
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plot a data file as a contour plot in a specific region
I have a set of data and want to be plotted in a specific region. I draw the region using tikz and when I want to add the data as a contour plot in the region, I don't get the results. How can I Plot ...
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Filled contour plot from data set
I want to create a filled contour plot in pgfplot from a dataset mydata.dat
I get a ugly picture like this:
The code that I use is
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\...
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Problem with contour plots
Im trying to run the following code
\documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{width = 7cm, compat = 1.8}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[domain = -2:...
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Unwanted shifts of contours of characters
In this answer and this answer, an nice method of clipping TikZ stuff against the contours of some characters have been proposed: use the character for tikzfadingfrompicture and then use that fading ...
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Contour text in xelatex
I have this MWE which work fine with pdflatex
\documentclass[border=3mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[outline]{contour}
\contourlength{1.2pt}
\pagecolor{blue!30}
\begin{document}
\...
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