Re: patch for latex->tikz

[Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>]

Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> attached is a small patch that makes it possible to 'evaluate' latex
> source blocks to tikz files.

Applied, thanks.

> 
> When the :file header argument has a value ending in '.tikz' the
> content of the body of the source block will be copied into the
> resulting tikz file.  This makes handling of tikz figures with
> captions easier.
>
> Here is a use-case:
[...]
> This example works well besides some weird scaling/placement issue.
>

The best way I've found to deal with scaling/placement of raw or inline
tikz is to use the subcaption and adjustbox packages as in the following
example.

    % latex
    \begin{figure}
      \centering
      \begin{minipage}[b]{0.32\linewidth}
        \adjustbox{width=1.0\linewidth}{
          \begin{tikzpicture}
            % ...
          \end{tikzpicture}
        }
        \subcaption{\small part 1}
      \end{minipage}
      \begin{minipage}[b]{0.32\linewidth}
        \adjustbox{width=1.0\linewidth}{
          \begin{tikzpicture}
            % ...
          \end{tikzpicture}
        }
        \subcaption{\small part 2}
      \end{minipage}
      \begin{minipage}[b]{0.32\linewidth}
        \adjustbox{width=1.0\linewidth}{
          \begin{tikzpicture}
            % ...
          \end{tikzpicture}
        }
        \subcaption{\small part 3}
      \end{minipage}
      \caption{Example with three sub-parts}
      \label{fig:example}
    \end{figure}

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Eric Schulte
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