http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4438 <pre>Dear PGF developers, I was wondering about two questions: a) Is there any tiny chance that you would be willing to release a newer pgf/TikZ to CTAN? (Please ...) We keep fetching the latest version in ConTeXt already, but the whole LaTeX community would be grateful for more frequent updates (at least once per year for the TeX Live). There happen to be clashes between TikZ and ConTeXt MKIV, but even when the version in CVS is fixed, it is almost impossible to make sure that ConTeXt MKIV + TikZ would work in TeX Live. b) Is there any chance to switch from CVS to something more modern like SVN or GIT, possibly using TDS? I'm willing to help you prepare a git repository. I do the conversion on server each day anyway, but there are problems with incremental updates from CVS to GIT and having the main repository in either of the two modern repositories would make it a lot easier for some to write and test ConTeXt-specific patches, submit them back to PGF developers etc. Thank you very much, Mojca ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ </pre> Mojca Miklavec 2012-05-24T19:16:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4434 <pre>Hi, I would like to have tree which grows to the right. It works fine for small nodes. However, if the node is a bit wider the edge intersects the node. Example code: \begin{tikzpicture} \node {a wider node} [edge from parent fork right,grow=right] child {node {child1}} child {node {child2}}; \end{tikzpicture} Result: http://postimage.org/image/qzs0saoh3/ How to solve this? Regards Dominic------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/_______________________________________________ pgf-users mailing list pgf-users&lt; at &gt;lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgf-users </pre> dnt 2012-05-22T08:17:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4425 <pre>Hi, I'd like to draw TCP/IP networks with Tikz, so I need nodes such as routers, swithches, hubs etc. I can draw it each time I need it, but what would be cool is a syntax like \node[router]; \node[switch]; etc. Anyone know how to do this ? I saw a similar discussion here : http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/701, but as I begin with Tikz I didn't really understood, and I'm not even sure this is exacly what I want. Regards, Corentin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/_______________________________________________ pgf-users mailing list pgf-users&lt; at &gt;lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgf-users </pre> Corentin Henry 2012-05-08T05:53:34 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4423 <pre>Hi! as part of caption I like to describe some symbols drawn by TikZ used in picture (see minimal exmple below), but for any in-line tikz picture i receive error: ! Use of \pgf&lt; at &gt;arrowsdeclarecombine&lt; at &gt;star doesn't match its definition. \pgfutil&lt; at &gt;ifnextchar ...1\def \pgfutil&lt; at &gt;reserved&lt; at &gt;a { #2}\def\pgfutil&lt; at &gt;reserved&lt; at &gt;... in preamble of document I have also declared \pgfarrowsdeclarecombine[\pgflinewidth] {hastype}{hastype}{triangle 45}{triangle 45}{triangle 45}{triangle 45} for needs in driving some diagrams (there work fine as well in in-line tikz picture in text). if I comment above definition, then i receive error: ! Argument of \tikz&lt; at &gt;style&lt; at &gt;parseA has an extra }. I wonder, if caption doesn't allow to use TikZ in-line pictures in caption text at all or I doing something wrong? Do anyone know a solution for my problem? regards, Zarko minimal example: \documentclass{memoir} \usepackage{TikZ} \usetikzlibrary{arrows,shapes} \tikzset{arrow-1/.style = { A/.style = {shape=single arrow, sharp corners, draw, thin, rotate=-90, fill=##1, minimum height=5mm, minimum width=3mm, single arrow head extend=0.5mm, inner sep=1pt, anchor=east}, } } \pgfarrowsdeclarecombine[\pgflinewidth] {hastype}{hastype}{triangle 45}{triangle 45}{triangle 45}{triangle 45} \pgfarrowsdeclarecombine*[\pgflinewidth] {hassubtype}{hassubtype}% {open triangle 45}{open triangle 45}{open triangle 45}{open triangle 45} \begin{document} \begin{figure}\centering \begin{tikzpicture}[arrow-1] %--- \foreach \j in {1,2,3} \node[A=white] at (\j,0) {}; %--- \end{tikzpicture} \caption{Sparse time-base. Sparse events {\tikz[arrow-1]\node[A=white] {};} are only allowed to occur within the intervals $\pi$} \end{figure} \end{document} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ </pre> Zarko F. Cucej 2012-05-06T21:30:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4422 <pre>Hi, I found Metapost best for drawing complex smooth curves (i.e., Bezier, splines), while you do not have to directly specify Bezier control points. However, I need to use TikZ for my current project exclusively; drawing (closed) curves in TikZ is tedious and very time-consuming task. So I combined the "power" of Metapost with TikZ into the following workflow: - Draw desired closed curve in Metapost. - Open generated ps file in text editor and manually extract control points. - Paste extracted points into TikZ figure and modify PGF/TikZ expressions to draw curve. Pasted below is a reproducible example to illustrate described approach. %% Construct curve in Metapost beginfig(1) draw (0,0) .. (60,40) .. (40,90) .. (10,70) .. (30,50) .. cycle; endfig; end %% Extract control points from postscript file newpath 0 0 moveto 5.18756 -26.8353 60.36073 -18.40036 60 40 curveto 59.87714 59.889 57.33896 81.64203 40 90 curveto 22.39987 98.48387 4.72404 84.46368 10 70 curveto 13.38637 60.7165 26.35591 59.1351 30 50 curveto 39.19409 26.95198 -4.10555 21.23804 0 0 curveto closepath stroke %% Create Tikz figure in pdfLaTeX \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.1] \draw (0, 0) .. controls (5.18756, -26.8353) and (60.36073, -18.40036) .. (60, 40) .. controls (59.87714, 59.889) and (57.33896, 81.64203) .. (40, 90) .. controls (22.39987, 98.48387) and (4.72404, 84.46368) .. (10, 70) .. controls (13.38637, 60.7165) and (26.35591, 59.1351) .. (30, 50) .. controls (39.19409, 26.95198) and (-4.10555, 21.23804) .. (0, 0); \end{tikzpicture} \end{document} This approach works if you have to draw curve or two, but becomes tedious with more curves. I wonder if there is a simpler way which avoids manual copy-paste repetitions from file to file? Maybe the most elegant solution should be simple C/C++/... program, but I cant't find implemented Hobby's algorithm (ftp://reports.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/85/1047/CS-TR-85-1047.pdf) used by Metapost to calculate Bezier control points. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Best, Andrej ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ </pre> Andrej Kastrin 2012-05-05T09:18:10 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4421 <pre>Hi all, Does any one have any suggestions for drawing ladder-logic diagrams in PGF/TikZ? I'm referring to the type of diagrams that are used with Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). As far as I can discern there isn't any ready-made library for this. I suppose they could be drawn using grids and custom node shapes (perhaps from one of the circuits libraries)?   David Collins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ </pre> David Collins 2012-04-30T21:37:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4418 <pre>Hi, few day ago i installed recent CVS of TikZ from http://perso.enstimac.fr/~gaborit/latex/tikz-pgf.html &lt;http://perso.enstimac.fr/%7Egaborit/latex/tikz-pgf.html&gt; it work nice, the manual has some novelties etc. But today I tray to use matrix library and .. . there i was surprised since it doesn't work as before. First i receive warning that instead \matrix i should use \begin{matrix} ... than complain about node (which shuold have at least empty {} than is found some missing brackets, then some problem with mispalced \crcr etc. on the end (till before i gave up) i found that problems was caused with some incompatibility with packages empheq and mathtools. if I delete them, then minimal example below work fine. this problems was not a case in previous CVS. Please, help me to solve this problem. for the next realise of CVS I kindly ask to give novel instruction for matrix libraries. this will be very helpful. regards, Zarko \documentclass{memoir} \usepackage{empheq} \usepackage{mathtools} \usepackage{TikZ} \usetikzlibrary{matrix,shapes} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{matrix} (uraA) [matrix of nodes] { times in clock A \\ C: 11:40 \\ A: 11:50 \\ B: 11:55 \\ }; \end{matrix}; \draw[very thick] (uraA-1-1.south west) -- (uraA-1-1.south east); \end{tikzpicture} \end{document} Do anyone have some experiences with recent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ </pre> Zarko F. Cucej 2012-04-24T17:14:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4412 <pre>Hi, Is it possible to get Coons patch mesh gradients in pgf/tikz? I am thinking of something that would render as Type 6/7 gradients in PDF. Rectangular shapes would be enough for me. I saw the bilinear interpolation shading in the manual, but it looks like it was rendered by Tikz using small rectangles. I wonder if it would be possible to have these render natively in the appropriate backend. Best, Tamas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. 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Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev </pre> Zarko Cucej 2012-04-17T21:29:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4409 <pre>Hi! recently i upgrade my WinEdt 6 to WinEdt 7, which now support/work in unicode. i'm not familiar with unicode yet, so i have the following problem: With WinEdt 7I still can compile my old unicode documents with \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[cp1250]{inputenc} in preamble. This work fine as it is with using WinEdt 6. But if a document has TikZ graphics, i'm faced with the following behaviour: - if the code of a picture is in file, than Slavic character č,š,ž (\v{c}, \v{s}, \v{z}) appears correct, but - if the code of picture is stored in separated file and then called with command \input, then those characters are replaced with two, strange characters, for example for č appear (in LaTeX notation} \"{A}\v{T}. this can be seen as well in YAP as in Sumatra or Adobe Reader X. i suppose that they are unicode characters. is this WinEdt matter (some how can be, because this doesn't happen in WinEdt 6) or matter of TikZ? Do need TikZ be aware of using unicode editor? And what is change if i store picture in file and then import it in document with "\input"? what should i to eliminate this strange behaviour? the WinEdt is set to use ANSII code. regards, Zarko ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 </pre> Zarko Cucej 2012-04-15T23:34:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4406 <pre>How do I change the spacing between the lines of a native pattern like "north east lines" (p.386 pgfmanual.pdf)? Do I have to redefine an entirely new pattern with "\pgfdeclarepatternformonly" (p.644)? Thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ pgf-users mailing list pgf-users&lt; at &gt;lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgf-users </pre> Hugues Vermeiren 2012-04-09T07:33:58 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4404 <pre>Dear PGF users, With following: \documentclass{minimal} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{pgfmath} \begin{document} \end{document} I get "! Package PGF Math Error: The function `add' already exists." Any workarounds? ______________________________________________ Professor Michael Kubovy University of Virginia Department of Psychology for mail add:for FedEx or UPS add: P.O.Box 400400Gilmer Hall, Room 102 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400485 McCormick Road USACharlottesville, VA 22903 roomphone Office: B011+1-434-982-4729 Lab: B019+1-434-982-4751 WWW: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mk9y/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2_______________________________________________ pgf-users mailing list pgf-users&lt; at &gt;lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgf-users </pre> Michael Kubovy 2012-04-08T15:18:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4403 <pre>Dear all, I'd like to place nodes along a (bezier) curve, and then draw sections between some of the nodes in a different style. In the example below, I'd like to have e.g. a dashed line, or a different color, between C and D. \begin{tikzpicture} \draw node (A) {A} +(20ex,5ex) node(B) {B}; \draw[black] (A) .. controls +(5ex,-3ex) and +(-5ex,-7ex) .. (B) node[pos=.3,circle,fill=white] (C) {C} node[pos=.7,circle,fill=white] (D) {D}; % the idea is to change e.g. line style between C and D, % but to keep the nice overall curve (bezier calculation) \end{tikzpicture} Is this possible? Thanks for your help Pascal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 </pre> Pascal N 2012-04-07T10:41:57 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4402 <pre>Hi all, I am experiencing a strange problem (maybe just strange because I missed something). It seems the example below (intersections) does not work when the path is drawn with "edge[in=...,out=...]". Is there a way to achieve this? And why doesn't it work?   \begin{tikzpicture}       \draw node (A) {A}           +(-3,-3) node (B) {B}           +(3,-3) node (C) {C}           +(0,-5) node (D) {D};      \draw[name path=curve1,black] (B) -- (C); % works % using ``edge'' doesn't work for intersections -- why? %      \draw[name path=curve1,black] (B) edge[in=150,out=30] (C);      \draw[name path=curve2,black] (A) -- (D);      \fill [red, name intersections={of=curve1 and curve2}]         (intersection-1) circle(3pt);   \end{tikzpicture} Thanks for your help Pascal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 </pre> Pascal N 2012-04-06T14:52:41 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4399 <pre>Dear all, I am struggling to find a solution to referencing positions within a node. What I would like to do is to include a picture in a node using \includegraphics{file}, and then to draw a diagram on top of it. In order to do this in a reproducible way, the diagram should scale with the picture's size (the size of the node). I'd like to specify positions relative to the node's extent (e.g. 10% of the picture's width from the left etc.). However, I was not able to find a solution. Example: \begin{tikzpicture} \node (fig) {\includegraphics[width=.8\textwidth]{figure_file_name}}; \node[draw, rectangle,red,width=fig.width] at ($(fig.west)!.5!(fig.east)$) {x}; %works, but not general \end{tikzpicture} How would I, for example, draw a box which has the following extents: bottom left corner: 5% of node's width from left, 15% of node's height from bottom top right corner: 20% of node's width from right, 40% of node's height from top Thanks for your help Pascal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev_______________________________________________ pgf-users mailing list pgf-users&lt; at &gt;lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgf-users </pre> Pascal N 2012-04-05T10:11:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4395 <pre>Hi, I'm not (yet) familiar with unicode, actually before WinEdt 7 arrive, i haven't any special interest for it. In my test of WinEdt 7 I observe interesting behaviour: - if i wrote in it normal text always use code page 1250, the not standard ASCI characters like č (\v{c}), š (\v{s}) and ž (\v{z}) appears normal, but in tikz pictures they are changed to unicode (i tought, since look like to be composed with more characters) - if i this caracters change in WinEdt 6 (based on standard ASCI)to normal characters (as it appers in code page 1250), then are also after processing in WinEdt 7 (based on unicode) appears the same as after processing in WinEdt 6. In the both cases I have in preamble: \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[cp1250]{inputenc} what to do? regards, Zarko ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure </pre> Zarko Cucej 2012-04-01T15:29:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4394 <pre>Hi, If I'm not mistaken, "unbounded" values in tables generated by Gnuplot indicate that the plot should be broken at that point, not only that the point should be ignored. The attached patch corrects just that. Cheers, Ignacy </pre> Ignacy Gawędzki 2012-03-30T14:13:19 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4392 <pre>Hi-- I can't get arrows to appear in tikz using plain TeX; the same code works fine in LaTeX. Any hints or work-arounds? It happens in both 2.00 and 2.10 on ubuntu. </pre> David Guichard 2012-03-22T16:23:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4391 <pre>On a new ubuntu install (11.10) with pgf 2.10-1, whenever I load tikz topinserts disappear--they just never show up in the output. This happens even if I don't use tikz. I reverted to 2.00 and things are fine. This is a terrible bug! I spent days before I tracked it to tikz. </pre> David Guichard 2012-03-22T16:19:10 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4388 <pre>Hi I had just started with tikz,its great and I am using it. I am trying to develop further into inside the tikz{picture} environment for graphics like sine functions for use of maths. I have TeXShop and have some basic unix skills. At my local directory as advised by pgf manual ...it states use local texmf tree /usr/local/texlive/2010basic/texmf/tex Any advice how to install pgf . I ran texhash and command not found. I found that texhash command is available at /usr/texbin directory. If you know the best way to install pgf, I would be happy to hear it. best regards, Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization &amp; Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/_______________________________________________ pgf-users mailing list pgf-users&lt; at &gt;lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgf-users </pre> Mark Lim 2012-03-14T05:38:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user/4387 <pre>Hello! I have a node, which is splitted into 2 resp. 3 parts. I want to give this parts a different color. The picture should result in something like a UML class diagram (though it is not exactly). My shorted code ist: \begin{tikzpicture}[auto, thick, every node/.style={rectangle, draw, rectangle split, rectangle split parts=2, rectangle split part align={center,left}, align=left, minimum width=5cm}, every second node part/.style={fill=blue} ] \node(base)[rectangle split parts=3] at (0,0) { \textbf{BaseWorker} \nodepart{second} + name \nodepart{third} + do() \\ + run() }; \draw (8,7) node(ec) { \textbf{ExternalCommand} \nodepart{second} + position \\ + command } node(sp)[below=0.4cm of ec] { \textbf{Spider} \nodepart{second} + position = 100 \\ + configuration }; \draw[-&gt;] (base.east) -- (ec.west); \draw[-&gt;] (base.east) -- (sp.west); \end{tikzpicture} The every second node part/.style={fill=blue} in the header does not show any effect at all. How can I give a specific background color for different parts of the nodes? I you have any other improvements for the code, I'm happy to hear them, just started with tikz, but really like it! Regards, Florian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d </pre> Florian Lindner 2012-03-13T12:23:08 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.tex.pgf.user