{"id":7709,"date":"2020-10-24T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=7709"},"modified":"2020-10-24T11:19:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T09:19:12","slug":"various-tikz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2020\/10\/24\/various-tikz\/","title":{"rendered":"Various Tikz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Latex and Tikz allows to programmatically create beautiful documents, presentantions and graphics. Their documentation is clear but so extensive that one search the net for quick hacks, most often ending on Stack Exchange. Here&#8217;s some of the hints I found useful<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tex.stackexchange.com\/questions\/217953\/tikz-objects-drawing\u2028\">https:\/\/tex.stackexchange.com\/questions\/217953\/tikz-objects-drawing<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tex.stackexchange.com\/questions\/415548\/quotes-with-tikz\">https:\/\/tex.stackexchange.com\/questions\/415548\/quotes-with-tikz<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tex.stackexchange.com\/questions\/63560\/how-to-use-x-coordinate-of-a-point-and-y-coordinate-of-other-point#63562\">https:\/\/tex.stackexchange.com\/questions\/63560\/how-to-use-x-coordinate-of-a-point-and-y-coordinate-of-other-point#63562<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Latex and Tikz allows to programmatically create beautiful documents, presentantions and graphics. Their documentation is clear but so extensive that one search the net for quick hacks, most often ending on Stack Exchange. Here&#8217;s some of the hints I found useful https:\/\/tex.stackexchange.com\/questions\/217953\/tikz-objects-drawing https:\/\/tex.stackexchange.com\/questions\/415548\/quotes-with-tikz https:\/\/tex.stackexchange.com\/questions\/63560\/how-to-use-x-coordinate-of-a-point-and-y-coordinate-of-other-point#63562<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2020\/10\/24\/various-tikz\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tex"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6daft-20l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1892,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2016\/11\/14\/tikz-library-for-structural-analysis\/","url_meta":{"origin":7709,"position":0},"title":"TikZ Library for Structural Analysis","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2016-11-14","format":false,"excerpt":"TikZ Library for Structural Analysis Forum and resources for TeX, LaTeX, LyX and editors. 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