[Tex/LaTex] Undefined control sequence error

tikz-pgf

I am playing with the code adapted from here.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\tikzset{
   nodeline/.style={midway, rotate=#1, minimum height=3.5mm, minimum       width=2.5mm}, 
 }

\newcommand\trigram[2]{%
\begin{scope}[rotate=#1]% around={#1:(0,0)}
\def\alenanno{w}  %if it is ying
\clip (-1.1,3) -- (1.1,3) -- (0,0) -- cycle;
\foreac \x [count=\xx starting from 0, evaluate=\xx as \y using (1.75+.5*\xx)] in #2{%
  \ifx\x\alenanno
  \draw[line width=3mm] (-1.2,\y) -- (1.2,\y) node[nodeline=#1,fill=white] {};
  \else
  \draw[line width=3mm] (-1.2,\y) -- (1.2,\y);
  \fi
}
\end{scope}
}

\begin{document}
   \begin{tikzpicture}
   \trigram{0}{b,w,w};
   \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

When I compile, I am getting following error without output. Can anybody help with this?

ERROR: Undefined control sequence.
--- TeX said ---
 \trigram ...-- (1.1,3) -- (0,0) -- cycle; \foreac 
                                              \x [count=\xx starting    fro...l.23   \trigram{0}{b,w,w}
                     ;

Best Answer

You spelled \foreach wrong and you are missing a set of braces around #2.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\tikzset{
   nodeline/.style={midway, rotate=#1, minimum height=3.5mm, minimum       width=2.5mm}, 
 }

\newcommand\trigram[2]{%
\begin{scope}[rotate=#1]% around={#1:(0,0)}
\def\alenanno{w}  %if it is ying
\clip (-1.1,3) -- (1.1,3) -- (0,0) -- cycle;
\foreach \x [count=\xx starting from 0, evaluate=\xx as \y using (1.75+.5*\xx)] in {#2} {%
  \ifx\x\alenanno
  \draw[line width=3mm] (-1.2,\y) -- (1.2,\y) node[nodeline=#1,fill=white] {};
  \else
  \draw[line width=3mm] (-1.2,\y) -- (1.2,\y);
  \fi
}
\end{scope}
}

\begin{document}
   \begin{tikzpicture}
   \trigram{0}{b,w,w};
   \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Rotate a node but not its content: the case of the ellipse decoration

The source of the difficulty is that ellipses are constructed in a particular way in TikZ. They are paths that start from the x-axis and proceed counter-clockwise around their centre. The vast majority of the time, the exact parametrisation doesn't matter. You appear to have found the one situation where it does!

In the actual question, you only want to be able to mirror the ellipse, and so draw it starting from the negative x-axis (the title of the question suggests a more flexible approach). That's actually not too hard since we can exploit the symmetry of the ellipse. The key is to provide it with a negative x-radius, since then it will start from the negative x-axis (and proceed clockwise, but we could correct for that by negating the y-radius as well). To do this, we interrupt the call from the node shape to the drawing command and flip the sign of the x-radius. The simplest way to do this is to redefine the \pgfpathellipse macro to do the negation and then call the original macro. The following code does this.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations,shapes,decorations.markings}
\makeatletter
\let\origpgfpathellipse=\pgfpathellipse
\def\revpgfpathellipse#1#2#3{%
  #2%
  \pgf@xa=-\pgf@x
  \origpgfpathellipse{#1}{\pgfqpoint{\pgf@xa}{0pt}}{#3}}
\makeatother

\tikzset{
  reversed ellipse/.style={
    ellipse,
    reverse the ellipse%
  },
  reverse the ellipse/.code={
    \let\pgfpathellipse=\revpgfpathellipse
  }
}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node[ellipse,
  draw,
  postaction={
    decorate,
    decoration={
      markings,
      mark=at position 1 with {
        \arrow[line width=5pt,blue]{>}
      }
    }
  }
] at (0,0) {hello world};

\node[reversed ellipse,
  draw,
  postaction={
    decorate,
    decoration={
      markings,
      mark=at position 1 with {
        \arrow[line width=5pt,blue]{>}
      }
    }
  }
] at (0,-2) {hello world};
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

Here's the result:

rotated ellipse

(the arrow got clipped, but you can see where it lies)

[Tex/LaTex] Undefined control sequence \tkzDrawArc

Probably you are missing

\usetkzobj{all}

Example:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{tkz-euclide}
\usetkzobj{all}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
    \tkzDefPoint(0,0){O}
    \tkzDefPoint(2,-2){A}
    \tkzDefPoint(60:2){B}
    \tkzDrawLines[add = 0 and .5](O,A O,B)
    \tkzDrawArc[rotate,color=red](O,A)(180)
    \tkzDrawPoints(O,A,B)
    \tkzLabelPoints[below](O,A,B)
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

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