Re: placing a tikz/pgf figure

[Willi Egger <w.egger@boede.nl>]

Indeed I also get the results as you describe them. When looking at the 
file *.tmp then you see, that the figure is generated on the fly. When 
external figure is issued, then the textwidth is the base and therefore 
the figure ends up leftaligned. -- In such cases I prefer to have the 
figures prepared in a separate pdf-file by means of
    \startTEXpage -- \stopTEXpage. Afterwards I include the TEXpages 
with \externalfigure referencing the page in the file obtained. -- In my 
experience this makes the runs faster.

Kind regards

Willi

M.J. Kallen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to determine how to best insert a figure/graph created using the tikz/pgf module (I'm using v1.10). The attached sample file compares the result of just using \placefigure and \placefigure with \startcombination[1*1]. In the first case, the result is not centered (which should be default in ConTeXt, if I'm correct) but flushed left. Only if I place the figure inside a \startcombination by using \input, do I get the desired result. If I use \externalfigure inside the \startcombination, I again get an incorrect result. 
>
> In theory, the first version should work but some special settings (using e.g. \useexternalfigure) may be required. I do not know why the second version does work. Does anyone have an idea?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Maarten-Jan
>
>
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> \usemodule[tikz]
> \setupfloat[figure][location=middle,frame=on]
>
> \starttext
>
> \startbuffer[tikz]
> \starttikzpicture
> \draw[red,thick] (0,0) -- (1,1)
> 	     {[rounded corners] -- (2,0) -- (3,1)}
> 	          -- (3,0) -- (2,1);
> \stoptikzpicture
> \stopbuffer
>
> \placefigure
> 	[here]
> 	[fig:test1]
> 	{The figure is flushed left, whereas it should be centered.}
> 	{\externalfigure[tikz.tmp]}
>
> \placefigure
> 	[here]
> 	[fig:test2]
> 	{Using \type{\startcombination[1*1]} together with \type{\input}, the result looks as expected.}
> 	{\startcombination[1*1]
> 		{\input test-pgf-tikz.tmp } {}
> 	\stopcombination
> 	}
>
> \placefigure
> 	[here]
> 	[fig:test3]
> 	{Using \type{\startcombination[1*1]} together with \type{\externalfigure}, the result looks again as in the first figure.}
> 	{\startcombination[1*1]
> 		{\externalfigure[tikz.tmp]} {}
> 	\stopcombination
> 	}
>
>
> \stoptext
>   
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