Re: Problem with MkIV and TikZ picture remembering

["Jörg Weger" <joerg73.muc@googlemail.com>]

 > Is that really an mkiv issue? If I understood well tikz has its own way
 > of keeping track of positions independent of context.

Normally yes.

But there is TikZ’ “remember picture” mode. You can produce several 
independent TikZ pictures on a ConTeXt/LaTeX/plain text page. TikZ tells 
ConTeXt (or LaTeX or plain TeX) to give back the coordinates of those 
pictures on the page after the page has been typeset. TikZ can then draw 
interconnections between those images which are rendered in an extra run.

In my example the rounded rectangles with the words inside are TikZ 
images which are put inline into the ConteXt text by the command

\tikz[baseline] \node[<form of node>, draw, anchor=text] {<text content>}

When I use

\tikz[baseline, remember picture] …

instead I activate the mode explained above and the arrows can be drawn 
according to the “remembered” coordinates after ConTeXt’s first 
typesetting run.

According to Wolfgang Schuster in the first reply in this thread when 
using ConTeXt mkiv – other than mkii – file the coordinates given back 
after the first typesetting run look strange in TikZ’ auxiliary so there 
seems to be a mistake somnewhere between ConTeXt and TikZ in this regard.


Greetings Jörg


On 07.03.2015 15:52, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 3/7/2015 1:08 PM, Jörg Weger wrote:
>
>> Metapost’s learnig curve seems to be a lot steeper to me. It is really a
>> pity that ConTeXt mkiv does not save the node coordinates correctly as
>> Wolfgang found out.
>
> Is that really an mkiv issue? If I understood well tikz has its own way
> of keeping track of positions independent of context.
>
> Hans
>
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