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    <title>Paths to composite nodes</title>
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    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Hello.

I have a diagram where nodes contain tikzpicture environments, each of
them have an automaton. The problem is that when I draw lines from on
node to an other, both the target and the source of the connecting
arrows are misplaced.

I have uploaded the latex code at http://pastebin.tlhiv.org/bl1my4rH

Initially, I placed the nodes in a matrix but when the arrows where not
drawn correctly I tried an alternative placement of the nodes. The
result was different but still wrong.
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    <title>test again</title>
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    <description>&lt;pre&gt;this another test, sorry for disturbance ...

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    <description>&lt;pre&gt;sorry for disturbance,i just checking, why my me-mails to list not 
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    <title>shortening of braces</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4595</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Hi,
many times i need togive some description to groups of successive 
(rectangle) shapes, i.e. something like this:

\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
     \usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathreplacing}
\begin{document}
     \begin{tikzpicture}[
box/.style = {draw, minimum size=9pt,inner sep=1pt, outer sep=0pt, right},
brc/.style = {decorate, decoration={brace,raise=1mm}},
shorten &amp;lt;&amp;gt;/.style = {shorten &amp;gt;=#1pt, shorten &amp;lt;=#1pt}
                     ]
\coordinate (a0) at (0,0);
\foreach \x [count=\xi from 0] in {1,...,4}
   \node[box] (a\x) at (a\xi.east) {\x};
\draw[brc] (a1.north west) to node[above=2mm] {A} (a2.north east);
\draw[brc] (a3.north west) to node[above=2mm] {B} (a4.north east);
\draw[brc,shorten &amp;lt;&amp;gt;=1] (a2.south east) to node[below=2mm] {C} (a1.south 
west);
\draw[brc,shorten &amp;lt;&amp;gt;=1] (a4.south east) to node[below=2mm] {D} (a3.south 
west);
     \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

where i like to have small space between successive braceswithout 
changing braces coordinates. so i try to use shorten, but result is only 
partly satisfactory... (see braces C and D). well, if i set shorten to 
0.5 points, braces look perfectly, but distance between them is little 
to small.

do anyone has better solution?

regards,    Zarko


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    <dc:creator>Zarko F. Cucej</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-03-24T15:30:43</dc:date>
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  <item rdf:about="http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4592">
    <title>patterns</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4592</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Hi,
in pgf manual the patterns description is described very, very shortly ...

so i like to know, if it is possible to define for example line width 
for north east lines patterns?

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    <dc:creator>Zarko F. Cucej</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-03-23T18:37:12</dc:date>
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    <title>Partial circle</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4588</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Hello everybody,
I am trying to draw a circular arc, but somehow cannot get it to 
work. The minimal example I've put together based on my 
understanding of the documentation looks like this:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{scope}
\clip (0cm,0cm) rectangle (8cm,3cm) ;
\begin{scope} [color=black]
\draw [fill=none] (3.0 2.0) arc (0:90:1.0 and 1.0) ;
\draw [fill=none] (2.0, 2.0) ellipse (1.0 and 1.0) ;
\end{scope}
\end{scope}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Drawing the ellipse works fine (if I comment out the line with the 
arc command), but with the arc I get the following output:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/openSUSE) 
(format=pdflatex 2012.7.21)  21 MAR 2013 17:42
entering extended mode
 %&amp;amp;-line parsing enabled.
**construction.tex
(./construction.tex
LaTeX2e &amp;lt;2009/09/24&amp;gt;

[...]

! Package pgf Error: No shape named 3 is known.

See the pgf package documentation for explanation.
Type  H &amp;lt;return&amp;gt;  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.8 \draw [fill=none] (3.0 2.0)
                                arc (0:90:1.0 and 1.0) ;

Does anyone know where my mistake is?
Thanks and best wishes,
Lutz

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    <dc:creator>Lutz Gehlen</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-03-21T16:47:42</dc:date>
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    <title>calculation of width of the rectangle shape</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4583</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;hi,
is there a way to "on-line" calculate the minimum width of rectangle 
shape? something like:
%-------
     \documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
     \usetikzlibrary{shapes}
         \begin{document}
      \begin{tikzpicture}
\node[draw,minimum width=&amp;lt;math expression&amp;gt; mm] {?};
     \end{tikzpicture}
%-------
i try for math expression to use something like:

     \pgfmathparse{3*log10(10)}\pgfmathresult

but it giveserror:

! incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line ...

please help me!

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    <dc:creator>Zarko F. Cucej</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-03-17T06:25:18</dc:date>
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  <item rdf:about="http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4581">
    <title>rectangle split, how difficult is to determine parameter for height of each par?</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4581</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Hi,
i often use rectangle split for sketch of comparison of the 
communication models. there it will be quit handy if for not empty shape 
parts will exist similar macro as for empty parts:

     rectangle split empty part height=&amp;lt;length&amp;gt;

or even better, if it will be capable to consider different height for 
each shape parts as this do

     rectangle split part fill={color-1, color-2, ...}

for colour of shape parts, i.e. th macro should have the following syntax:

rectangle split part height = {height 1, height 2, ...}

now i help myself with use of rules in each part with width=0 and 
desired height. This is not quite an elegant solution ...

any help in defining desired macro i will very appreciated!

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    <title>chamfered rectangle</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4579</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Hi,
i have problemswith shape "chamfered rectangle". see mwe below. Why are 
both shapes aren't in the line? and why they are not the same shape (the 
shapes are different regardless how much are minimal width and chamfered 
rectangle xsep.

I like to have all shapes in form as has the left one, regardless of 
length inside text.
%%%%
     \documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning,shapes,shapes.misc,}
\begin{document}
     \begin{tikzpicture}[%
chamfered rectangle, chamfered rectangle angle=45, chamfered rectangle 
xsep=12mm,
minimum width=16mm, minimum height=10mm, align=center]
\node[draw]                          (a)    {some long,\\ long text};
\node[draw,below right=0mm and 22mm] (b) at (a.after north east) {short};
\node[draw,below right=0mm and 22mm] (c) at (b.after north east) {};
     \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
%%%%

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    <dc:creator>Zarko F. Cucej</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-02-23T00:59:14</dc:date>
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    <title>key for omit drop shadow</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4577</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Hi,
for bunch of my tikz pictures i design common tikzset, where i defined 
properties of used shapesand lines. many of them have dropped shadow, 
but sometime it happens, that for particular shape i like to omit 
dropped shadow but preserve common tikset because of other definition in 
it and standardised designof sketches. I tried with

shapeX/.add style = {}{drop shadow=none}

similar as this is possible at driving lines, but without any success. 
apparently tikz doesn't provide this functionality ...

do someone know for solution? or i need to make feature request?

well, i can always determine new style name for these cases, but his 
make me problems all the time inventing a new (short) names with some 
meaning ...

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    <title>Auto label placement and curved paths</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4576</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;I noticed that combining the 'bend right' option and 'auto' label
placement gives weird results when applied to somewhat short paths.
In the attached example, notice that the dots appear in the wrong
order.  If the distance of A and B is increased, or the 'auto' option
removed, then one gets the expected result.

In the second picture, which is just slightly asymmetric, even the
[pos=0.5] case behave badly.

Now, is this a bug, or lack of precision in TeX arithmetic, or is it
just the way the 'auto' algorithm works?

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}
  \node[draw,name=a]{A};
  \node[draw,name=b, below=8mm]{B};
    \draw[bend right] (a) to (b);
    \foreach \x/\y in {0.1/blue,0.3/purple,0.5/red,0.7/green,0.9/yellow} {
      \path[bend right] (a) to node [auto,pos=\x,color=\y]{.} (b);
    }
\end{tikzpicture}

\begin{tikzpicture}
  \node[draw,name=a]{A};
  \node[draw,name=b, below=8mm]{B};
    \draw[out=-120,in=115] (a) to (b);
    \foreach \x/\y in {0.1/blue,0.3/purple,0.5/red,0.7/green,0.9/yellow} {
      \path[out=-120,in=115] (a) to node [auto,pos=\x,color=\y]{.} (b);
    }
\end{tikzpicture}


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    <title>cylinder shape</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4569</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Hi,
using cylinder shape I expect that it has fixed shape regardless of text 
inside -- of course if the text is shorter than minimum width - inner 
sep. From MWE below it seem that this is not a case.

\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{tikz}
     \usetikzlibrary{shapes}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[
D/.style = {name=r#1,
             shape=cylinder, draw, aspect=0.5,
             shape border rotate=90,
             minimum width=16mm, minimum height=7mm,
             right=3mm}
                     ]
\node[D=1]                  {1};
\node[D=2]  at (r1.east)    {11};
\node[D=3]  at (r2.east)    {111};
     \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}


How to make at all three shapes equal?

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    <dc:date>2013-02-09T10:20:42</dc:date>
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  <item rdf:about="http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4561">
    <title>Gas Law, pgfplots</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4561</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Hi, pgfplots-users.

 

In this representation of the ideal gas law, how do I get the temperatures
correctly displayed in the legend?

 

Thank you.

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    <dc:date>2013-02-08T17:46:02</dc:date>
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    <title>size or scaling of the tikzfadingfrompicture</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4560</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Hi,

doing my first steps with the fadings library I ran into the following
problem: the scaling of the tikzfadingfrompicture. When building the
enclosed example I had to set the size of the rectangle to (1.7,1.7)
to get a nearly correct size. I'm quite sure this is not the correct way.
But I don't know how to go the right way!

Regards,

Jürgen



Code:
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{fadings}
%
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
 \begin{tikzfadingfrompicture}[name=fade right]
    \shade[inner color=transparent!100,outer color=transparent!0]
       (0,0) rectangle (1.7,1.7);
 \end{tikzfadingfrompicture}
%
 \clip (0,0) rectangle (11.8,7.5);
 \foreach \i in {0,1,2,...,49} {%
    \foreach \j in {0,1,2,...,20} {%
       \pgfmathrandominteger{\n}{0}{1}
       \node[font=\bfseries,blue] at (\i*0.24cm,\j*0.36cm) {\n};
    };
 };
 \fill[path fading=fade right,red] (0,0) rectangle (11.8,7.5);
\end{tikzpicture}%
\end{document}

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    <dc:date>2013-02-08T13:32:56</dc:date>
  </item>
  <item rdf:about="http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4558">
    <title>bug in the manual</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4558</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Hi,

In the manual of the version "build date 2012-11-04"
(and in older versions, too) is a bug in the description 
of \pgfmathrandominteger (p 539): maximum and 
minimum (parameters two and three) are interchanged.

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  <item rdf:about="http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4557">
    <title>Enclosing a region in a rectangle</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4557</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Hello.
At http://pastebin.tlhiv.org/_wHigrpb I have placed a code sample that
achieves the desired result. I would like to automate the definition of
similar diagrams where a state machine is enclosed in a rectangular border
with bullets placed on the borders with a label.

Now I explicitly define two nodes, one for the leftmost and an other for
the rightmost coordinates that define the rectangle. Is it possible to
calculate the area which would enclose the state machine and the labels on
the arrows? The fit library encloses the nodes but not the labels of the
connections between the states and I need to pass the state nodes as
arguments to the enclosing node.

Secondly, I tried to create a macro that would accept a list of node labels
and draw circles on the border with the provided label. I am certain this
can be done but I need some help on the implementation. Provided that there
are two nodes called leftmost and rightmost that store the coordinates of
the enclosing rectangle and an offset, the macro would be (in pseudo code):
 \providecommand{\ports}[2]{
%arg 1: offset in the x axis of the first port
%arg 2 list of labels
distance = (rightmost.x - leftmost.x - 2 * offset)/label count
count = 0
foreach label in labels
  \path (leftmost.north -| #leftmost.east)+(count * distance + offset, 0)
node (name)  {};
  \fill (name) circle (.1cm);
  \path (name) + (0, 0.3) node {label};
  count++

Best regards,
Anakreontas Mentis
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    <dc:date>2013-01-14T13:07:07</dc:date>
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    <title>Size of arrow tip?</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4542</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Hi,

In my drawing, I found the arrow tips looks too large, since some of my
lines are so short ones. But after searched through the manual, I
haven't figured out a way to reduce their sizes. What's the right way to
do the job?

Thanks in advance.

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    <dc:creator>Woody Wu</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-01-09T05:38:42</dc:date>
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    <title>How to apply different draw options for matrix boarderand cells</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4541</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Hi,

In a matrix, there are a serial of cells each of which is a node. I hope
the matrix can have a dashed boarder but cell notes have solid ones. But
as long as I specify something like:
    \matrix[draw, dashed ...] { ... }
All the cell nodes in the matrix also get affected by the 'dashed'
option, it cause all those cell nodes also have dashed boarder, which is
not what I expected.

How do I solve the problem? Thanks in advance!

-woody


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    <dc:date>2013-01-09T05:12:50</dc:date>
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    <title>How to align matrixes</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4538</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Hi,

Supposse I have two matrix, left one is A and right one is B, each of
them contains a column of nodes.  Then I want to align the A and B.

Case 1: To align top of B with top of A.  I did something like:
    \node (B) [matrix, anchor=north west, right=of A.north east, matrix
    of nodes ....] { ... };

    But this doesn't work, it seems that the 'anchor' setting for the
    matrix is not taking effets.

Case 2: To align the first cell (a node) in B with the second cell (a
    node) in A.  For this, I totally have no idea.

Could anyone please help me?  Thanks in advance.

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    <dc:date>2013-01-08T08:50:32</dc:date>
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    <title>default of &lt;&gt;</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4537</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Hi all,

is there a way to change the default of &amp;lt;&amp;gt; when using it in \path commands
for example from \only to \uncover?

The idea is to just use
\draw&amp;lt;+-&amp;gt; ...;
instead of
\uncover&amp;lt;+-&amp;gt;{\draw ...;}


Best regards,
Stefan

% ----- minimal example -----
\documentclass{beamer}
    \usepackage{tikz}
        \setbeamercovered{transparent}
\begin{document}
    \begin{frame}{test}
        \begin{tikzpicture}
            \path
                coordinate (a) at (0,0)
                coordinate (b) at (0,2)
                coordinate (c) at (1,3.25)
                coordinate (d) at (2,2)
                coordinate (e) at (2,0)
            ;
            \begin{scope}[
                thick,
%                round corners=8pt,
            ]
                \draw&amp;lt;+-&amp;gt; (a) -- (b);
                \draw&amp;lt;+-&amp;gt; (b) -- (c);
                \draw&amp;lt;+-&amp;gt; (c) -- (d);
                \draw&amp;lt;+-&amp;gt; (d) -- (e);
                \draw&amp;lt;+-&amp;gt; (e) -- (b);
                \draw&amp;lt;+-&amp;gt; (b) -- (d);
                \draw&amp;lt;+-&amp;gt; (d) -- (a);
                \uncover&amp;lt;+-&amp;gt;{\draw (a) -- (e);}
            \end{scope}
        \end{tikzpicture}
    \end{frame}
\end{document}
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    <title>trapezium: bug or feature when sizing</title>
    <link>http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4536</link>
    <description>&lt;pre&gt;Happy New Year to everybody,

I have a question regarding the trapezium shape. Is it intended that the
trapezium changes its size based on the "original" bounding box" of the
node? 

As you can see in the attached minimal example the trapezium gets really
large when the width (as `text width' or `minimal width') and height are
given (column 4 of the matrix).


Best regards,
Stefan Pinnow


% ----- minimal example -----
\documentclass[DIV=20,landscape]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{tikz}
    \usetikzlibrary{
        matrix,
        positioning,
        shapes.geometric,
    }
\begin{document}

%\tikzset{my node/.style={trapezium, fill=#1!20, draw=#1!75, text=black}}
%\begin{tikzpicture}
%    \draw [help lines] grid (3,2);
%    \node [my node=red] {A};
%    \node [my node=green, minimum height=1.5cm] at (1, 1.25) {B};
%    \node [my node=blue, minimum width=1.5cm] at (2, 0) {C};
%\end{tikzpicture}
%%
%    \hspace{2cm}
%%
\begin{tikzpicture}
        \tikzset{trapezium stretches=true}
    \draw [help lines] grid (3,2);
    \node [my node=red] {A};
    \node [my node=green, minimum height=1.5cm] at (1, 1.25) {B};
    \node [my node=blue, minimum width=1.5cm] at (2, 0) {C};
\end{tikzpicture}


\begin{tikzpicture}[
    a/.style={
        trapezium,
        draw=blue,
        align=center,
    },
    b/.style={
        a,
        text width=10em,
%        minimum width=10em,
    },
    c/.style={
        a,
        minimum height=10ex,
    },
    d/.style={
        b,
        c,
    },
]

    \matrix [
        matrix of nodes,
        row sep={10ex,between origins},
        column sep={15em,between origins},
        nodes={
            align=center,
            text width=1em,
        },
        column 1/.style={every node/.append style={a}},
        column 2/.style={every node/.append style={b}},
        column 3/.style={every node/.append style={c}},
        column 4/.style={every node/.append style={d,draw=green}},
        %%
        row 4/.style={every node/.append style={trapezium stretches=true}},
        row 5/.style={every node/.append style={trapezium stretches=true}},
        %
        row 7/.style={every node/.append style={trapezium stretches
body=true}},
        row 8/.style={every node/.append style={trapezium stretches
body=true}},
    ] (m) {
        {test}          &amp;amp; {test}         &amp;amp; {test}         &amp;amp; {test}
\\
        {test \\ test}  &amp;amp; {test \\ test} &amp;amp; {test \\ test} &amp;amp; {test \\ test}
\\
                        &amp;amp;                &amp;amp;                &amp;amp;
\\
        {test}          &amp;amp; {test}         &amp;amp; {test}         &amp;amp; {test}
\\
        {test \\ test}  &amp;amp; {test \\ test} &amp;amp; {test \\ test} &amp;amp; {test \\ test}
\\
                        &amp;amp;                &amp;amp;                &amp;amp;
\\
        {test}          &amp;amp; {test}         &amp;amp; {test}         &amp;amp; {test}
\\
        {test \\ test}  &amp;amp; {test \\ test} &amp;amp; {test \\ test} &amp;amp; {test \\ test}
\\
    };
    
    \foreach \i/\j in {
        1/8,
        4/8,
        7/8%
    }
        \foreach \k in {1,...,4} {
            \draw [red] (m-\i-\k.top right corner)
                -- (m-\i-\k.top right corner |- m-\j-\k.top right corner);
            \draw [red] (m-\i-\k.top left corner)
                -- (m-\i-\k.top left corner  |- m-\j-\k.top left corner);
            %
            \draw [red] (m-\i-\k.bottom right corner)
                -- (m-\i-\k.bottom right corner |- m-\j-\k.bottom right
corner);
            \draw [red] (m-\i-\k.bottom left corner)
                -- (m-\i-\k.bottom left corner  |- m-\j-\k.bottom left
corner);
        }

    \foreach \i/\j in {
        2/8,
        5/8%
    }
        \foreach \k in {1,...,4} {
            \draw [orange] (m-\i-\k.top right corner)
                -- (m-\i-\k.top right corner |- m-\j-\k.top right corner);
            \draw [orange] (m-\i-\k.top left corner)
                -- (m-\i-\k.top left corner  |- m-\j-\k.top left corner);
            %
            \draw [orange] (m-\i-\k.bottom right corner)
                -- (m-\i-\k.bottom right corner |- m-\j-\k.bottom right
corner);
            \draw [orange] (m-\i-\k.bottom left corner)
                -- (m-\i-\k.bottom left corner  |- m-\j-\k.bottom left
corner);
        }

\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
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