Questions tagged [tikz-pgf]
TikZ is a higher-level drawing language built on top of the PGF graphics framework. For questions specifically about the PGF layer use {pgf-core} instead. Both tags are possible on the same question. The tag {diagrams} is also compatible with this tag.
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Drawing on an image with TikZ
Recently I have learned how to draw simple stuff with TikZ. I really like it. Now I wonder if it is possible to draw with TikZ on a image. Instead of pasting a image in Illustrator and adding some ...
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Should \tikzset or \tikzstyle be used to define TikZ styles?
The PGF/TikZ manual states in section 12.4 Using Graphic Options, page 120 (v2.10), that TikZ styles can be set using:
\tikzset{my style/.style={<tikz options>},...}
However, in several places ...
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Difference between "right of=" and "right=of" in PGF/TikZ
In the PGF/TikZ manual, sometimes I see the option right of=somenode instead of right=of somenode. They look very similar, but the effects are different. The distance between nodes positioned with ...
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How can I invert a 'clip' selection within TikZ?
I wish to draw an arc for a reflex angle on the outside of a triangle with coordinates (A), (B) and (C).
If I wanted to draw the arc inside the triangle I could use something like
\begin{scope}
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Manual/automatic line breaks and text alignment in TikZ nodes
How can I insert a line break in a TikZ node? Simply putting \\ where I want the break doesn't work (see MWE).
Is there a way to make lines break automatically at some specified width?
And can I ...
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Cool Text Highlighting in LaTeX
LaTeX has soul. ConTeXt, of course, has beautifully marked up "sharpie" highlighting, where you can put sweet hightligher under your text for free!
In the pictured example, you can see highlights ...
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Materials for learning TikZ
I feel intimidated in learning TikZ. I was wondering if there are some nice materials (or just your replies) at different level:
for providing big picture, which is
important to beginners to not lose
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Good way to make \textcircled numbers?
This question led to a new package:
circledsteps
I'm trying to make some good-looking numbers in a circle, using the simple command:
\textcircled{1}
However, the circle is misaligned vertically ...
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Mindmap tikzpicture in beamer (reveal step by step)
I want to include a tikzpicture (mindmap) in beamer and I want the children to appear one after the other.
So I use \visible but it don't works -- also not with \pause command. I get errors regarding ...
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TikZ: How to draw an arrow in the middle of the line?
Like this:
.------<------.
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v ^
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'------>------'
I am currently using
\begin{scope}[very thick,->]
\draw (-4,1)--(-4,0)--(0.1,0);
\draw (0,0)--...
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Proper nesting of tikzpicture environments: Reset all PGF values to their defaults
Sometimes, nesting tikzpicture environments seems inevitable, e.g., if you want a node to contain a TikZ picture on its own. (Is it?) However, nesting tikzpicture environments is problematic, also ...
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Is it possible to change the size of an arrowhead in TikZ/PGF?
I'm trying to draw an arrow with a bigger head than normal. Is it possible without changing the style of the line itself?
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Vertical and horizontal lines in pgf-tikz
It is easy to produce a path between two nodes consisting of a single horizontal and a single vertical line (from the manual):
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw (0,0) node(a) [draw] {A} (1,1) node(b) [...
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Using a pgfplots-style legend in a plain-old tikzpicture
I am using a plain-old tikzpicture to produce a pie-chart-like plot. Now, all other plots in my paper are handled using pgfplots (which doesn't do pie charts) and have their legend typeset by pgfplots....
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Axis break in pgfplots
Is there an easy way to 'break' the axis in a pgfplots environment? What I'm talking about is something like this
Any minimal plot will do as an example...for example
\documentclass{minimal}
\...
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Extract x, y coordinate of an arbitrary point in TikZ
I need a macro to extract the x and y coordinates from an arbitrary point, like (3,4), or like (A), or like ([xshift=-2pt] A.north west), where A is the name of a node.
I've seen the solution
\...
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Drawing Axis Grid in 3D with Custom Unit Vectors
I am trying to adjust the unit vectors for each of the axis, and draw a coordinate grid. I can get it to work without specifying the unit vectors, of specifying it as:
x={(1.0cm,0.0cm)}, y={(0.0cm,1....
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How to make beamer overlays with Tikz node
I have a diagram of 4 nodes in my beamer slide.
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{centering}
\begin{tikzpicture}[system/.style={draw,rectangle,rounded corners=3,minimum width=2cm,text width=1.8cm,text ...
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How to draw tangent line of an arbitrary point on a path in TikZ
Suppose I specify some node as occurring at some point on a path. Say for example the node (P) defined on the following path.
\path[draw] (0,9) to[out=-90,in=180] (9,0) node[pos=0.7,circle] (P) {};
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Simulating hand-drawn lines
I am working on a project that will have some vector graphics, perhaps using TikZ (or a similar package). All of the graphics consists of lines, in shades of gray. However, the lines from TikZ appear ...
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Tikz: Arrowheads in the center
For arrows I have gone through options like ->, ->>, <-, <<- but havent found one for making the arrowhead appear in the center of the line of the curve (something like ->-) How do I do it in ...
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Design a custom Beamer theme from scratch
No matter how hard I search, I cannot find any information on creating a Beamer theme from scratch, as opposed to LEGOing it together from the built-in inner, outer and color themes, maybe modifying ...
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How to install a current version of TikZ?
TikZ is undergoing lots of development with new features being added, but the versions distributed with standard TeX releases are often a little old. How do I get the latest version? If I want to be ...
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Bounding box is larger than expected when drawing a curved path
I have been working on logo for my department and I have the following code. The problem is that whenever I compile the diagram seems to be larger than the actual logo. I do not know what is the ...
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Easy curves in TikZ
I find myself needing to draw lots of elegantly curved paths in TikZ. Ideally, I'd just specify a series of points, and TikZ would calculate the extra data itself to draw a nice series of curves ...
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"Z-level" in TikZ
This is an idle question, but neverthless, I think it's interesting.
Does TikZ have a simple way to implement a "z-level" specification. By this, I don't mean 3D drawing, I mean specifying which ...
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How to draw Venn diagrams (especially: complements) in LaTeX
What I am up to is to write some exercises dealing with logical formulas for my students, like:
And the students should draw these formulas on Venn diagrams. At the end of the lesson, I really would ...
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How to draw arrows between parts of an equation to show the Math Distributive Property (Multiplication)?
There is a part of my paper where I use the distributive property and it might not be clear to the reader to see the operation result (I'm using in proposional logic for a proof). The logic equation (...
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How to scale a tikzpicture to \textwidth
I would like to scale my tikzpicture to exactly (or a proportion of) the \textwidth
Of course I could play with the [scale=0.5] option until I found the right value, but I assume there must be an ...
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Draw arc in tikz when center of circle is specified
It would be convenient sometimes to be able to draw an arc in tikz by specifying
the center of the corresponding circle
its radius
the initial/final angle
i.e., the "natural" way an arc is defined, ...
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"Single ampersand used with wrong catcode" error using tikz matrix in beamer
I am having trouble getting a basic example of a matrix of notes to show up in my beamer presentation. I am using the code copied from the pgf manual. Here is a complete working example. The error I ...
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3D bodies in TikZ
Is there like a library that has default geometric figures like the ones shown below. Am not acquainted yet with 3D diagrams in TikZ.
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Drawing simple 3D cylinders in TikZ
I'm trying to draw some simple 3D objects in TikZ. I can do spheres and cuboids okay, but I'm struggling with circular cylinders: When rotating the scene (I use tikz-3dplot for this), the end faces ...
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Custom and built in TikZ fill patterns
I can't find much information about creating TikZ fill patterns or even using the custom built-in patterns. Look to do all the common fills like lines, hatches, dots, stars, etc... I need to be able ...
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How can I draw an arc from point A -> B on a 3D sphere in TikZ?
I'm basing myself on http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/spherical-and-cartesian-grids/ and now I need to add a arc from point P to Q. What I was able to get so far:
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=1,...
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Drawing heatmaps using TikZ
Introduction
I want to create a heatmap using TikZ.
You can see the basic idea in the picture below:
I basically have a table of values and each value is assigned a color.
The picture is the result ...
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How to draw a torus
Is there an easy way to draw a contour image of torus below with tikz? Or for that matter with any other graphics package.
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Problem with babel and tikz using \draw
I'm trying the next code:
\documentclass[pdftex,spanish]{article}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
Simple arrow:
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[->] (-1.5,0) -- (1.5,0);
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Is there a TikZ equivalent to the PSTricks \ncbar command?
Although I now use TikZ, every so often I find myself looking for very useful PSTricks commands which don't seem to exist in TikZ. The pst-node package has an \ncbar command which allows one to ...
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Correctly scaling a tikzpicture
I was wondering which is the correct way to scale a tikzpicture.
I tried with
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.50]
but what I obtain is that distances between elements are scaled but not their sizes or ...
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What is the easiest way to draw a 3D cube with TikZ?
I'm trying to find the easiest way to draw a 3D cube (it's for my UML diagram) with TikZ. Could you please give an example?
Like this:
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How to draw a decorated rectangle with rounded corners?
As the title says, I was trying to draw a rectangle with rounded corners, and then decided it needed decorating. Well, the result looks awesome, but isn't really what I had in mind.
a) What happened?
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Draw an aircraft with Tikz
I want to draw a plane using the Tikz tool.
You will find, attached, a screenshot.
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How to create magnified subfigures and corresponding boxes for portions of a large image
Updated Below
I hope the title gets at what I'm trying to do. I have a large image for a thesis on an image processing topic, and I want show the large image, with zoomed in boxes (typically with the ...
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Problem with defining shortcuts for TikZ matrices
For answering a question yesterday I wanted to define a shortcut for creating a matrix inside a tikzpicture. As a minimal example, consider
\newcommand\mymatrix[1]{
\begin{tikzpicture}
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What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG) for PGF/TikZ?
Are there any WYSIWYG editors for PGF/TikZ? Perhaps something similar to LyX but for PGF/TikZ?
If there is no WYSIWYG editor for this tandem, is there one perhaps that allows the user to easily ...
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Positioning relative to page in TikZ
Consider the following:
Let's say I have a dot. I would like to be able to position this dot anywhere on the page: at the corner, in the middle, anywhere.
So far, despite poring over manuals and ...
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Stroke with variable thickness
Can you create lines with variable thickness (line width) in Tikz?
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TikZ: Line with large dots
Is there a simple way to draw a line like with \draw[dotted] (0,0) -- (1,0); but with larger (radius about 1mm) and more distant (about 4mm) dots?
I've looked in the TikZ & PGF manual, section "...
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Problem with overlay when a tikzpicture is inside another tikzpicture
update i discovered lately this question where Nickolay Kolev uses \tikz inside a tikzpicture environment. A lot of users think that is a wrong practice and I agree that is very strange but sometimes ...
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