Thanks a lot, rh,
unfortunately I need as well circled letters, which are not included in the
package afair. I will have another glimpse on it.
Cheers,
Christoph
On Feb 3, 2011, at 3:09 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
> On 02/03/2011 08:37 AM, Christoph Mayer wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I have a graph which i need to explain in the caption. Unfortunately I need
>> numbers and letters with a circle around in order to explain it (which is a
>> scanned image). Therefore, I defined a new command in the preamble of the
>> main document
>>
>> \usepackage{tikz}
>> \newcommand*\mycirc[1]{%
>> \begin{tikzpicture}[baseline=(C.base)]
>> \node[draw,circle,inner sep=1pt](C) {#1};
>> \end{tikzpicture}}
>>
>> and here the preview of the latex-code, I inserted the command via ERT:
>>
>> \begin{figure}
>> \noindent \begin{centering}
>> \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{\string"../Pics/Chapter/1_\string".png}
>> \par\end{centering}
>> \caption{ diagram displaying the corrosion
>> \mycirc{1}\label{fig:1} }
>> \end{figure}
>>
>>
>> I cannot compile it, even when I insert the command directly into the
>> caption, like
>>
>> \begin{tikzpicture}[baseline=(C.base)] \node[draw,circle,inner sep=1pt](C)
>> {1}; \end{tikzpicture}
>>
>> it only produces errors, while both possible ways work outside the caption
>> in standard environment.
>>
>> Could anybody help me to get around that problem inside the caption
>> environment?
>> thanks a lot and all the best!
>>
> pifont provides circled numbers. So \usepackage{pifont} and then: \ding{172}
> for a circled `1'. See
> http://willbenton.com/wb-images/pifont.pdf
> for the codepoints.
>
> rh
>
>
