On Feb 3, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
> On 02/03/2011 09:15 AM, Christoph Mayer wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
> I'm guessing that the problem here has to do with the use of tikzpix in
> moving arguments. Perhaps a different version of \mycirc would solve the
> problem, say, one that just printed the argument over a circle. I'm
> forgetting at the moment how to do that in a size-agnostic way. I guess by
> making boxes, figuring out how big they are, and then using \kern to move
> back just the right amount.
>
> Richard
>
Thank you for your help, I managed it with the initial command, just a
\protect\mycirc{1} was enough to make the job!
P.S. Sorry for messing up the order in the answer tree here, I'm not yet used
to mailing lists.
Christoph
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
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