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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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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Understanding what contour package does

In contour package, the macro \con@put is defined as: \newcommand*\con@put[3]{% \rlap{\hskip#1\raisebox{#2}[0pt]{#3}}% } But if one changes that \rlap to \llap, then you no longer get contour. For ...
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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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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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My line won't break because of package contour

I would really appreciate if someone could help me with this. I don't know how to prevent the second phrase from not breaking at the end of the line. Surely, I can break the phrase on my own (third ...
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Why can't contour text along curve path?

I want to use a font with a white contour but doesn't seems to work. \usepackage{color} \usepackage[outline]{contour} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{decorations.text} \begin{document} \begin{...
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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 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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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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