Questions tagged [decorations]
part of the tikz/pgf bundle: the decoration libraries define a number of (more or less useful) decorations that can be applied to paths.
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Recreate this image in Latex [closed]
Can anyone please guide me in how I can recreate this image in Latex ?
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Decorate a multi-segment path without changing segment endpoints
I'd like to draw multi-segment "wavy" paths, so I tried both the standard snake decoration, and the very promising complete sines one as well, but in both cases, the segment endpoints are ...
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Drawing a smooth, tapered path ending in an arrow
I'm looking for a convenient way to draw a smooth, tapered path (i.e. a path of variable line width) ending in an arrowhead using TikZ — something like this (drawn in Inkscape):
One approach would be ...
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tikz-cd `shorten` in combination with `squiggly`
I want to draw a shortened squiggly arrow, like the following:
However, when I use shorten in combination with squiggly, I get a strange effect, where the shortened segment is drawn both as squiggly ...
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How to draw text along the path defined by a function?
I'm still dabbling in the use of pgfplots but I'm trying to draw arrows on this plot to show an inverse correlation between the variation in the arc length along the curve and the changes in x.
Given ...
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Text along path decoration with white background
I want to have some text appear along a line but not be obstructed by the line itself. I tried the following:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=newest}
\...
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Adjusting distance of two decorative ornamentals at the top of the page
I'm trying to reproduce the preface page ornament design of the Westlake's How to write letters book. This is a capture of that page with the decoration:
In doing so, I've used the pgfornament package,...
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Improving TikZ curved arrow with decorated path text
I have two questions working with this example: Circular Arrows and Text on Path 1. Is it possible to position the \arcarrow relative to some node? 2. Is it possible to have the text in the arrows 0, ...
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Venn diagram: how split the set in two parts
With this code
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{patterns}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[pattern=north east lines,pattern color=yellow] (4.5,2) ellipse[x radius = ...
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Drawing a set of elliptical shape partitions using tikz
I would like to draw a region of elliptical shape with 3 partitions. Each partition should be shaded and labeled differently (e.g., green, yellow and orange partition).
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Node contents when placing a node on path
In TikZ one can specify a node by a command like
\path (0,0) node[node contents=A];
This is very useful if one wishes to apply a command to the text in the node, say, to avoid writing
\node at (0,0) {...
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Why are lines appearing away from TikZ graph?
I'm trying to connect the ends of child nodes in TikZ. The lines form the correct shape (it should look like a triangle), but they are appearing weirdly displaced. I want the lines to connect the ...
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Decorating an edge of a cycle in tikz
I would like to decorate the top edge of this shaded square with rounded corners by a little circle. (Hopefully, I would use the decor defined below. My trials and errors got me errors only.)
\...
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Decorations behave strange with tcolorbox frames
I'm trying to change how the frame of a tccolorbox looks like. The decoration works fine with a normal tikzpicture, but looks really odd when used as the decoration for a tcolorbox.
Code:
\...
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How to decorate 2 paths in the same graph?
There is a graph made of two addplot commands
But the arrows must be in the same direction (the way of the top one), and the axis are gone (or made transparent).
The two sections are two separate ...
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Decorate a centred title with pgfornament
Would you kindly give me a help to decorate a title with pgfornment package.
I have the following code
\newcounter{exo}[subsection]
\newenvironment{exo}[1][]
{\edef\@exer{#1}%
\ifx\@exer\empty{}...
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Decoration for self crossing lines/curves
Is it possible to define a decoration/postaction, for drawing a double line so that a self intersecting line will draw on top of itself?
To show what I mean see these spirals:
\documentclass[tikz, ...
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Insert empty space between decoRule and figure
I wanted to insert a little space between the figure and the line of \decoRule. Instead \vspace{} is adding a space between the line and the caption. Does anyone know a why it does that?
Thanks.
EDIT:
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Wrong position of some ornamentations in the book's margins
I'm trying to setup some corners ornamentations with the pgfornament package. It works, but the horizontal position of some of the ornamentations is wrong and I don't know how to push them properly. ...
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How to add some fancy old style decoration in four corners of margins?
I would like to add some fancy-looking, old style decorations in the four corners of each page of the main part of a document, while keeping a small gap from the paper's edge to allow printing.
Here's ...
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TikZ: Filled area with curvy end line
How can I have a filled area like this:
With a curvy line.
In the sense of: it continues here
\documentclass[margin=5pt, tikz]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[]
\...
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How to add finishing to a zig-zag line in tikzpicture
Consider the following MWE
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathmorphing}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[thick] (3,-...
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Center a plot relatively to the middle of a vertical segment
NEW POST
Thanks to the code of Black Mild I have almost what I need.
Here is what it remains to do.
How to center the plot vertically relatively to the middle of the segment [T21 T22] where T21 and ...
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Frame all the content
I am looking for the way of creating one border frame around everything I have.
Something like standalone class, but an outline insted of cropping. I would also like to manage margins, line thickness ...
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How to make a glowing text?
I'd like to achieve such a result, like when you apply a glowing effect to a text in an image editor.
As I am already using tikz package in my document, it would be prefferable to use tikz's library.
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Plot decorated arrows in pgf?
Problematic
I'd like to display a simple continuous graph and a set of vertical arrows whose height follow the shape of a function.
The following diagram of flows in TikZ has this decoration \...
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Not able to draw arrows parallel to line
I am trying to draw a region. I am not able to draw arrows parallel to line connecting inner region to outer region. This is what I have
and this is what I want
The code I have so far is below. ...
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Arrow is not aligned
I am tryinf to make a multi-connected region in tikz. The arrow on the circle inside is weirdly tilted or angled somehow. as can be seen in the zoomed picture. I coloured them so that it can be seen ...
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Unexpected behavior of arrow decorations on knots: Multiple arrows and gaps appear
I'm using the knots tikzlibrary to draw some knots, and wanted to orient my knots, i.e. add an arrow. I use a decoration style which I've called "arrowat", which inserts an arrow at the desired spot (...
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Add tiers of brackets under TikZ Forest nodes
I want to annotate some subparts of a language family tree by adding a bracket below them. Taking inspiration from another question, I currently get as far as
\begin{forest}
for tree={s sep=2mm, ...
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Book Chapter Decoration
How can I produce the following decoration, meant to be used in the chapters of a book?
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How do I position horizontally and vertically repeated brackets where text not lined up with centre
I am trying to replicate a diagram in a paywalled article and I'm having problems. It's using repeated curly brackets to demonstrate a hierarchy. But, because the ideas at each level in the hierarchy ...
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TikZ: text along path as node (again)
I would like to ask again the following question:
TikZ: text along path as node
That question was answered with a solution which was good enough for OP at the time. I would, however like to have an ...
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Decorating path with math symbols causes pdflatex to hang?
I need to decorate a path with some text that includes math symbols. I followed this example, which works fine as long as I only include text. Here is the MWE (minor changes compared to example to ...
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TikZ: decorate stroke thickness throws 'Dimenson too large' but looks fine (ditto marks)
I've working on some florishes on my ditto mark macro (see Tikz: use latex length for length of path (ditto marks)). Namely, using variable thickness for the strokes. Below it is implemented as the ...
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Mark at multiple positions
I'm drawing a symbolic image of a DNA with tikz:
I did this using decorations.markings:
\documentclass[margin = 12mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings}
\begin{...
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Plot the difference between two bezier curves
I have the following code to plot two parabola-like "functions":
\begin{tikzpicture}[
remember picture,
overlay
]
\tikzmath{
\w = 4;
\yVs0 = 2;
\yVsl = 1;
\yVsf = 3;
\...
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TikZ: How to draw a pattern at the border of a not closed tikz path
"Based on the solution provided at TikZ: How to draw a pattern at the border of a tikz path I was able to do all the graphics in my thesis, except for one shape. As you can see in the graphic" ( ;-) ...
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TikZ: \foreach within Bracketed Arguments
I am trying to efficiently draw two concentric ellipses with four equally spaced dots at the cardinal directions using TikZ. Currently, I have the following code which generates the following image.
\...
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Decorated arrow - New math symbols
I would like to add new arrows to the list of arrows below. This arrows will be used as math symbols.
The first problem I met is that the first arrow has a bigger head than to two others.
I would ...
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How to set different headers for different slides in beamer [closed]
I designed a few slides for a quiz show that I hosted. This question is about editing the headers differently in each slide. For reference, please find my output pdf here.
In the first slide, the ...
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Decorate minted listing inside a tcolorobox [Merly done…]
I would like to decorate some listings just for pedagogical reasons.
Here is a starting code where I can draw a line but I still fail to produce a frame. How can I do that ?
\documentclass[12pt,...
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How to typeset maths above the curve of a function with TikZ, with the curve masked (or locally opacified) to improve readibility?
I want to label a family of curves representing a simple family of mathematical functions : x -> x²+c where c will take various values between, say, -6 and 6.
I want to superpose the label directly ...
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How to typeset text along the curve of a mathematical function with TikZ
I want to label a family of curves representing mathematical functions by writing at some place of the curve the formula directly on the trace. More specifically, my family of curves is the very ...
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PGF decorations not working
I am trying to use the following custom pgfdecoration to draw bonds with varying length of the double bond while using chemfig. The code was obtained from the following link: How to alter the bond ...
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How and where to change chapter decoration?
I downloaded a Latex template here. On every chapter (\chapter{}) the following decoration is displayed:
How can I change it to an individual one?
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Random Double Arc Endpoint Angles
I am trying to add some randomness to a double arc using random steps. The top and bottom endpoints of the arc are not at the same angles as the same arc drawn normally.
\documentclass{article}
\...
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TikZ: Draw interrupted line with text and arrows
Refer to this question I try to draw an interrupted line, but with text below / above and arrows at both ends.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations}
\usetikzlibrary{...
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Linebreak in text which decorates a path using decorations.text
Is it possible to use a linebreak in a text which decorates a path? Consider the following MWE:
% Circular arrows with text
% Author: Tom Bombadil
\documentclass[tikz,border=10pt]{standalone}
\...
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Rotate circular text
I am trying to approximate the following logo.
This is necessary because we might do some corrections to the text, and especially the colors, so it is not desirable to keep going back into an image ...
