Questions tagged [tikzducks]
This tag should be used for questions about the tikzducks package.
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Conversation w/ tikzducks with chat bubble placing tikzpicture inside beamer column
UPDATE:
I want to get these ducks in a conversation with each other, but I don't know how to scale the chat bubble or the actual duck. I'd ideally like them one alternating on each side and facing ...
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How to include `tikzpicture` in forest node?
How to include tizpicture, for example defined in ducks package, to a forest node?
Edit:
Simplified MWE with comparison result using duck in tikzpicture and in forest.
\documentclass[border=3.141592]{...
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Aligning ducks and their labels in a tree
I'm building a tree of labelled tikzducks.
An MWE would be
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{ducks}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture} [level distance=4cm, sibling ...
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There is a TikZ-impostor Among us
There is a TikZ-impostor Among us.
Background
After learning about some amazing TikZ packages such as tikzducks, tikzpeople and tikzsymbols, which I let some examples below, I harvested some ...
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How to use tikzducks on Plain TeX / ConTeXt?
Is it possible to use/port tikzducks in Plain TeX or ConTeXt? As far as I know, tikzducks.sty has some LaTeX-isms as \begin .. \end environments, so it doesn't work outside LaTeX.
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Tagging an equation with a tikz duck
I would like to label and equation with a tikz duck from the tikzducks package and refer back to it later, like so:
The obvious solution:
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{tikzducks}
\usepackage{amsmath}...
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Catching Pokemon with TikZ ... and why ducks matter
A very creative professor once draw this picture while teaching about horizontal throw
which source is this video.
Once I saw it I tried to reproduce the draw as can be seen on my own, not very ...
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A sad duck with TikZ (or TikZducks?)
I am working on my homework, which includes a little website.
I like the tikzducks package very much, so I decided to add some illustrations there using the svg files generated from \duck command.
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How to display a duck or marmot swallowed by a darkhole
Following this question about representation of a darkhole, how could one represent a tikzduck or a tikzmarmot being swallowed by it.
No animal nor being should be harmed in the process.
I think ...
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Welcoming 2019 Pi day: How to draw the letter π?
First of all: don't forget that exactly 140 years ago, Albert Einstein was born; but exactly one year ago, Stephen William Hawking passed away. What a special day for science!
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How to draw ...
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tikzducks page numbering
How can I have duck-based page numbers, as in the tikzducks manual itself? They are adorable, and I would like to have random ducks holding my page numbers.
The manual tells us how to make a signpost ...
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Scientific applications of the tikzducks
Are the tikzducks used to explain any scientific stuff?
I'm currently compiling a list of such applications for an upcoming talk, so even if you are not able to share your image, it would be helpful ...
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Getting ducks in example images
This question led to a new package:
duckuments
There are lots of cool example pictures in LaTeX. As far as I'm aware there aren't any good example duck images ;-(
Having ducks in the example ...
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Tikz externalize error when using tikzducks
I am using tikzducks for my footers, simply because I think they are brilliant. Because my document contains lots of other tikzpictures, I want to make use of \tikzexternalize. This works perfectly ...
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Problems drawing a sleeping duck
I'm trying to draw a sleeping duck, using the extremely cool tikzducks.sty. And I encounter two problems. To explain them, let me present the MWE first.
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{...
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Little problem with xscale and tikzducks
I would like to mirror an image of tikzducks which has the book option.
Using xscale=1 works, but the title of the book is not well mirrored.
Does it exist a way to adjust it without doing it ...
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How to keep a boolean value through the frames?
My boolean variable managing works with article class or within a single frame, but it doesn't work from a frame to another, why?
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{tikzducks}
\usepackage{ifthen}
\...
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"The duck pond": showcase of TikZ-drawn animals/ducks
We have tons of nice TikZ-drawn pictures on this site. Among them some great pictures of animals like cfr's cat code. But they are distributed all over the site.
As we definitely miss a place to ...
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\selectcolormodel{gray} doesn't always work with tikzducks
\selectcolormodel{gray} doesn't work for the duck hair, but it works for the other parts of the ducks, why?
\documentclass{ltugboat}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{ifthen}...
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Check if default value for tikz key is used
Background story: I am currently implementing the suggestions of https://codereview.stackexchange.com/a/171841/145641
How to change the line
\ifdefined\duck@hair\let\duck@eyebrow=\duck@hair\fi
so ...
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How can we draw a duck (in order to create a tikzducks package and store it in CTAN)?
This question led to a new package:
tikzducks
We have a scsnowman package but we don't have a ducks package, that's quite inexplicable since ducks are frequently used on TeX.SE (e.g., samcarter had ...
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