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LaTeX Graphics with TikZ

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804618233
Pages 304 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Stefan Kottwitz Stefan Kottwitz
Profile icon Stefan Kottwitz

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with TikZ 2. Chapter 2: Creating the First TikZ Images 3. Chapter 3: Drawing and Positioning Nodes 4. Chapter 4: Drawing Edges and Arrows 5. Chapter 5: Using Styles and Pics 6. Chapter 6: Drawing Trees and Graphs 7. Chapter 7: Filling, Clipping, and Shading 8. Chapter 8: Decorating Paths 9. Chapter 9: Using Layers, Overlays, and Transparency 10. Chapter 10: Calculating with Coordinates and Paths 11. Chapter 11: Transforming Coordinates and Canvas 12. Chapter 12: Drawing Smooth Curves 13. Chapter 13: Plotting in 2D and 3D 14. Chapter 14: Drawing Diagrams 15. Chapter 15: Having Fun with TikZ 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding text to edges

In diagrams, we often see that apart from text in diagram nodes, we can have text on the connecting lines or arrows. That’s an essential feature of TikZ’s edge operation.

Let’s continue our example from the previous section and add a text label to the edge. It will read pdflatex in a tiny typewriter font printed above the edge. This label is itself a node, so we insert this right after the edge:

node[font=\tiny\ttfamily, above] {pdflatex}

The full command becomes as follows:

\draw (tex) edge[->]
  node[font=\tiny\ttfamily, above] {pdflatex} (pdf);

Compile, and you get this picture:

Figure 4.2 – An edge with a text label

Figure 4.2 – An edge with a text label

Admittedly, this is a pretty verbose syntax. Luckily, TikZ provides a shorter way; this is called the quotes syntax because you can add edge label texts by enclosing the text in quotes as an option to the edge. That’s basically edge["text"]. We...

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