Re: tree charts

["Idris Samawi Hamid" <ishamid@colostate.edu>]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:39:25 -0700, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>  
wrote:

> I could not get
>> global
>> text color within a TikZ environment without individually coloring every
>> node...
>
> If a color is defined using ConTeXt's definecolor it can be used with
> tikz. Here is an example (adapted from the tikz manual)

Ok, I got confused by something the manual said about color (p. 108); I  
thought that non-LaTeX users had to use \definecolor{} which crashes on  
context...

Aditya, my hero,
THNX as always

Idris

>
> \usemodule[tikz]
> \definecolor[mycolor] [g=.75,r=.15,b=.5]
>
> \starttext
>
> \start[tikzpicture]
>        [parent anchor=east,child anchor=west,grow=east]
> \tikzstyle{every node}=[ball color=mycolor,circle,text=white]
> \tikzstyle{edge from parent}=[draw,dashed,thick,red]
> \node {root}
>        child {node {left}}
>        child {node {right}
>        child {node {child}}
>        child {node {child}}
> };
> \stop[tikzpicture]
>
> \stoptext

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Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
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