From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: placing a tikz/pgf figure
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 17:51:28 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.WNT.0.81.0701091738520.872@nqvgln> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45A3EC67.2030502@wxs.nl>
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, 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.
This is because (I think) that tikzpicture does not return a box.
> 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?
Replace
{\externalfigure[tikz.tmp]}
with
{\hbox{\input \jobname-tikz.tmp\relax}}
I have noticed this \placefigure and I do not know if it is a bug or a
feature. \placefigure expects you to give a box as a figure. Compare
the output of
\placefigure
[here]
{Left Fulushed}
{This is a test}
and
\placefigure
[here]
{centered}
{\hbox{This is a test}}
Hans, will adding a \hbox explicitly to \placefigure break anything?
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Hans Hagen wrote:
> willy, what do i need to install to get this example running?
You will need to install tikz from
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf/). The directory is not TDS
complaint, so you may need to correct that before installing the tree.
And of course, ignore Till Tantau's comments about ConTeXt on page
67-68 of the manual. He was working with stone age ConTeXt and still
manged to get the whole thing working :-)
And whenever you decide to overhaul the input mechanism for metapost,
tikz has some nice ideas.
Aditya
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-09 22:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-09 16:42 M.J. Kallen
2007-01-09 18:15 ` Willi Egger
2007-01-09 19:26 ` Hans Hagen
2007-01-09 22:51 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2007-01-09 23:26 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-01-10 20:08 ` Willi Egger
2007-01-10 0:21 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-01-10 1:08 ` Aditya Mahajan
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