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 ...