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Hi,

I have upgraded to MS10 and am creating equations in Powerpoint 2010 with texpoint 3.1.2.

When clicking the "Edit" button to modify an existing equation, I am waiting several seconds and obtain the following error message

"The display was produced using EMF but your installation does not ...

The solution is this one.

Has anyone an idea how to use a tikzpicture environment within a figure caption? What I want is, plot a blue circle withing a figure caption, like this.

\begin{figure}[ht]
%...
\caption{CaptionText \begin{tikzpicture} \draw[thick, color=blue, fill=blue] plot[mark=*, mark options={scale=1.3}] (0,0 ...

Hi:

The following line did the job for me: Simply replace step by xstep and ystep.

Sorry for previously having posted in German.

Hello,

Does anybody have an idea of how to create an aperiodic grid in the tikzpicture environment? Below is my example where I would like to have distances for the grid line of 5 horizontally and 2 vertically.

\begin{tikzpicture}[domain=1:9,x=0.4cm,y=0.5cm] % Zeichenbereich
\draw [color=gray!50 ...

Thanks Thorsten:

The beamer guide you are pointing at does not have a section 40.4, nor could I find a related item in the table of contents that would fit my request. Any ideas?

Thanks again.

Hello:

Any ideas how I can connect fingers in a mind map?

For example, how can I connect "Raum 1" with "Raum 2" in the following example:


\begin{tikzpicture}
\path[mindmap,concept color=gray]
node[concept] {Gebaude} [clockwise from=1]
child[concept color=red] { node[concept] {Raum 1} }
child ...

Hello:

Has anybody an idea how to use a grey square in latex text? Just like the $\blacksquare$ command for a black square.

Thanks

Hello:

I want to have a bold vector within a picture environment.

I am using
\linethickness{1mm}
\put(7,1.25){\vector(1,0){1}}

This, however, only increases the thickness of the actual vector line, not the thickness of the two lines that constitute the arrow head. The result is one thick line ...