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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Reproducing a figure in tikz with text and arrows flowing round in a circle
I want to reproduce the following figure with tikz (because there is a typo in the text in this figure).
My tikz code is (borrowed from here)
\documentclass[tikz,border=10pt]{standalone}
\...
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Using some symbol other than braces for path decoration
In tikz, we can do path replacing decoration with braces.
Is it possible to do this with some other symbol instead? (eg: square bracket). In the manuals, there is no direct method for this is given. ...
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Filling rule and for pattern at border
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
the ...
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Remove part of decoration drawn with “celtic” package
I have this decoration created with celtic package.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{celtic}
\parindent=0pt
\begin{document}
\definecolor{amber}{rgb}{1.0,0.49,0.0}
\...
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How to change the code from snakes to decorations.pathmorphing
I have the following curve in an instance of Tikz:
\draw[->,snake=snake, segment amplitude=.2mm,
segment length=1.5mm,
line after snake=0.5mm] (2.8,0.9) -- (2.4,0.9);
Since Tikz's library ...
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Finding an intersection with respect to the decoration
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Naming nodes in a decoration and draw lines from node to node
I asked a question, which was answered. The most help was the following.
\documentclass[tikz,border=3.14mm]{standalone}
\...
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Decoration of tikz-3dplot function: Error without effect
I created a 3D plot with tikz-3dplot and tried to add text along a path created by the function tdplotdrawarc by using a text decoration.
The appended MWE works as intented, but displays the error ...
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Tikz: ugly decorations on closed objects at merge point
When I use a decoration on objects that are closed, the merge point is usually ugly. The same problems also appears with arrows, even with the pre option: sometimes the zigzag stops "close" to the ...
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Tikz; decoration with rounded corners
I don't know why, but I can't use decoration with rounded corners. The following MWE fails with ERROR: Dimension too large.:
\documentclass[beamer,tikz,preview]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{...
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Tikz: draw path starting at an anchor and just going a specific distance in some angle
I would like to draw a decoreted path starting at the anchor of one node and going in a specific direction for a specific distance.
I Found something like this:
\draw(node.north) -- (50:2cm);
This ...
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How to replace segment object length with decorations?
In the following TikZ example I would like to replace the usage of snakes with decorations. How can I adjust the segment object length with decorations?
\documentclass[tikz, preview=true]{standalone}
...
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Challenge: Add descriptions around the arrows in a Tikz flow chart?
I attempt to make a flow chart looks like this:
My question is that, is there some way that I can add some text descriptions below and above the line/body of the arrows that linked between the ...
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Decoration with raise option on a cycle path engenders bad result
I am currently trying to do some decoration on a path built from a list of coordinates and cycle. I observe a weird result at the closing point of the cycle. I am looking for a solution to remove it.
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tikz exact text position along 3 intersecting circles
i'am not able to correctly place a text string along the perimeter of 3 circles that I've produced using tikz together with the decorations.text library.
This is what i've got till now
Clearly, the ...
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How to recover intersection times?
When we use intersections library we can get all intersection positions by naming them. But how can we recover the corresponding intersection times on the "sort by" path ?
I know that the ...
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Adding vertical shift to a decoration (follow up on Q18617)
I am studying the answer of @Caramdir to TikZ: draw only a certain central length of a given path
I would like the segment to be shifted orthogonally relative to the path.
I am trying to insert raise ...
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Superposition of random smooth waves to user defined smooth path
I need to complete a simple task of adding some random smooth perturbations to a generally specified smooth path in Tikz, as specified by the plot together with some user defined coordinates as shown ...
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How to shift parallel lines, drawn into a matrix with TikZ
I am initiating a 4x4-matrix and want to connect several entries with lines using TikZ. Now the problem is, that some parallel lines might overlap, as seen in the following example:
\documentclass{...
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Ho to write the condition of a set in several lines?
I would like to initiate a set, divided into the left section for the contained elements, and the right section for description of the necessarily fulfilled condition, where the right part might ...
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remove text decorations in header
I could remove text decorations like highlighting or todos from the TOC but not from the header line. I did this without putting the plain text into the optional parameter of \chapter[]{} because ...
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How to shift overlaying lines that are created with pstricks?
I am using pstricks to connect entries of 4x4-matrices with lines, more precisely, I use \ncline{}{}to connect two elements of a given matrix, that I initiated with \Rnode{}{}.
I iniated a 4x4-...
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How to connect entries of a matrix with lines?
I am looking for a way, to draw lines in a given matrix, that connect two chosen entries. So, for example I would like to use
\begin{pmatrix} 1 & 2 \\ 3 & 4\end{pmatrix}
to initiate the 2x2-...
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How to double, or triple an angle mark's decoration with TikZ?
I would like to decorate an angle's mark in a similar way as in this picture (taken from this question):
From this answer I could build this:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
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tikz: Right to left text within text along path
I have this example to write text along path using decorations.text library, and I want to insert arabic text starting from right to left
\documentclass[border=5mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\...
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Decoration in the Chapter Title
I am trying to use a decoration in the chapter title using the psvectorian package. The problem is that it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?
MWE
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[raggedright]{...
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How can I create this ornament section?
or
I would like to create a pattern for each section to display a line in the line of the question number, and below the right aligned, score of the question.
How can I create this ornament in \...
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How to have a text decorated circumference automatically equal to the length of the text?
I would like to have some text decorated circles with their circumference automatically equal to the length of the text.
That is something like my MWE but without calculating the radius manually by ...
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Wavy Arcs in Tikz
I have the following simple code:
\documentclass[notitlepage]{report}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{snakes}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[line width=2pt] (0,0) to (0,4) node[above]{\text{D1}};
...
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Marking intersection of two lines with a semicircle with no fill
I am trying to create a process flow diagram of my rig using LaTex but I am stuck at trying to figure out how to create a semicircular jump at the intersection of two independent lines in the drawing. ...
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TikZ path with rounded corners and decorations.markings not working as expected (pos=0.0 at wrong location)
I want to put small round markings at fixed distances on a six-pointed star.
There are two problems though: pos=0.0 is not at the expected location, but slightly shifted possibly due to the rounded ...
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Bounding box and umlaut issue in text decoration
In the above TikZ picture, how can I
extend the bounding box to include the text decoration without manual tinkering (the only solution I was able to find is fiddle with the border or margin class ...
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Decoration markings don't extend bounding box
How come decoration markings don't extend a TikZ picture's bounding box and how can I change this? Consider this example where the arrow markings are partially cropped.
\documentclass[tikz]{...
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TikZ style with two arguments running through a list
How can I define a style, in which two arguments take pairwise values in a list? In my case, the style is
\tikzset{
loop/.style 2 args={decoration={markings,
mark=at position {#1} with {\...
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Scale a decoration in TikZ
Let's suppose a drawing that uses a simple decoration (for illustration, let's say a simple spring):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc,patterns,decorations.pathmorphing,...
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“End-of-story mark”
I try to get in the last line of all my document a black square to mark the end of article.
So, this is my MWE:
\documentclass{article}
%\usepackage[french]{babel}
%\useppackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{...
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TikZ: Brace around nodes
So I want to put a horizontal brace around a part of the tikzpicture.
Alternate approaches I found but don't seem to apply too well here:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/1568/139666 (braces around
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Letterspacing in TiKZ text decorations
I have a drawing of a circle with some text following the curve, as below:
\documentclass[border=2mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.text}
\...
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Creating a new decoration
Consider the following LaTeX manuscript featuring a new PDF decoration declaration followed by its use on a simple line. The code is modeled after the examples on p. 999 of the TikZ & PGF manual ...
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Strikethrough lines on a phonological tree
I am wondering how I can add some strikethrough lines on a phonological tree. Here is my code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{tikz-qtree}
\usepackage{tipa}
\begin{document}
\...
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How to italicize and underline a particular part of circular text?
I have drawn two concentric circles and divided them into three sectors containing some text. How do I decorate the text?
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.text}
\begin{...
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Strange behavior of a tikz-cd arrow with description
While I was answering to another question, I've found a strange behavior of a tikz-cd decoration.
If you observe the image below, you can see that all the triangles are with their tips towards the ...
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Inverse clipping and decorated paths
I tried to implement the suggestions of this answer (Paul Gaborit's invclip) to make a "spotlight" effect (to be used with beamer). It works perfectly with simple shapes, but things get tricky when ...
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How to fully customize arrow heads in PGFPlots?
I loathe the predefined arrow styles in tikzor pgfplots and managed to apply customized arrows in tikz by using a decoration. Now I tried to apply the same decoration code inside a pgfplots axis and ...
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Scaling tikz brace
A tikz brace seems to be drawn in three stages (not necessarily in this order):
The "curls" at either end.
The "point" in the middle.
And a straight line connecting the "point" to either "curl" ...
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How to decorate a page border with text?
I would like to decorate a page border with text, using a specified font. Here, I am using Augie. This answer How to write a text along a circle? provides some guidance. I set up a path which is a ...
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Decorate contour with arrows in different directions
In this post it is thoroughly explained how to decorate a contour with arrows. How can I do the same, but so that one contour has arrows in one direction, and the other contour has arrows in the ...
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Text decoration in TikZ when the text is longer that the path
I have a couple of questions about text decoration in tikz when the text is longer than the path to decorate:
Why doesn't the decoration begin at the beginning of the line (whereas it is correctly ...
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Adjusting arrow head to swallow a path
I'm making a network diagram with shaped arrows that go the whole length of the path, rather than just being a line with an arrow on the end.
Because the bend option is so easy to use, I chose to do ...
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Using path options to set color for a custom shading
I'm using a custom shading to make cylindrical bars.
The shading uses a color that is defined in the color list.
I can change the color by using a \colorlet expression. But I'd like to be able to ...
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Setting order of decorations on a path
I'm trying to make paths that are shaded to as to appear as cylinders with spherical ends.
I've found a way to do this with decorations.
I use vertical shading on rectangles for the path segments, ...
