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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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 ...
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Replace the zigzag decoration by wave decoration in tcolorbox
First of all, I would like to thank CarLateX for her answer in this post.
My request is to replace the zigzag decoration with a wave decoration in this code
\tcolorboxenvironment{defin}{
blanker,
...
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Increase letter spacing in TiKZ text decorations
I've been trying to increase the spacing between letters in the diagram below:
\documentclass[12pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Brill}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations....
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TikZ: How to get decorations on each grid-middlepoint?
What is the right setting to get a decoration at every center of every box?
\documentclass[margin=5mm, tikz]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings}
\begin{document}
\...
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Curved brace decoration
As far as I know the brace decoration is only available for straight lines, as in the following example :
\documentclass[tikz,border=3.14mm]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathreplacing}
\...
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A decorations packages of LaTeX
I'm looking for decorations packages of LaTeX. So far, what I know is the:
Adforn
Pgfornament
Psvectorian (I don't see differences between this and pgfornament...)
So, can you tell me please ...
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Problem with TikZ path label orientation
I'm a newbie to LaTeX. I wanted to group and name the rectangles like the image below so I tried this.
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes,arrows,fit,calc,...
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Misplaced path using -| or |- with decoration (e.g. snake)
If I draw a path with the -|(horizontal-first-then-vertical) or |- (vertical-first-then-horizontal) commands and decorate the path with the snake-morphing operation, the latter half of the path is ...
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TikZ-decoration: control decoration amplitude along curve
Working with path decorations based on this solution provided by marmot I am searching for a possibility to change the decorations amplitude along the graph.
Having this plot
applying the mentioned ...
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Dimension too large in pgfplots when using decoration
I have a set of points that are not evenly distributed. I found this post that's supposed to do exactly what I want, but when I try to use it for my problem I get a Dimension too large error and I don'...
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Second mark coordinate in decoration in postaction not recognized
In decoration, second mark coordinate is not recognized:
\draw[thick,red,zigzag,postaction={
decoration={
markings,
mark=at position 0.7 with \coordinate (x);
mark=at ...
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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
in
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 ...
