Res: pgfkeys 'circle through' error

[Flavio Costa]

It seems the manual was designed to be read up-down, at least inside a given section, so the library requirements are given only once in the beginning instead of being repeated for every snippet inside that section.

However, when I started learning TikZ I almost had to write to the list asking for help but after some effort (after finding Kjell's examples) I realized that I had to add a library. So it seems many newcomers are put down by this style decision in the manual.


I don't see an ideal solution on the manual, maybe TikZ could be made smarter to warn the user when he/she uses a command or option that requires a certain library?

Flavio Costa


----- Mensagem original ----
De: Jens Fendler <jfendler@...>
Para: healyp <Patrick.Healy@...>
Cc: pgf-users@...
Enviadas: Terça-feira, 15 de Julho de 2008 12:21:43
Assunto: Re: [Pgf-users] pgfkeys 'circle through' error

Hi Patrick,

you're missing \usetikzlibrary{through}. It's working perfectly then.

However, this is something I also noticed a couple of times that the
\usetikzlibrary{...} parts are missing for most of the snippets in the
manual - although it's saving some space I guess those necessary should
be included for clarity.

Regards,
Jens


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[Jens Fendler]

I do see the point in not mentioning the libraries over and over again,
but often one just searches for a keyword in order to get something
quickly running, rather than having to browse back and forth.

Maybe at least something like a tiny warning sign on the side of the
examples indicating that this code doesn't just run "out of the box"
would be helpful and doesn't overload the examples.

Regards,
Jens

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:03:49 -0700 (PDT) Flavio Costa wrote:

> It seems the manual was designed to be read up-down, at least inside
> a given section, so the library requirements are given only once in
> the beginning instead of being repeated for every snippet inside that
> section.
>
> However, when I started learning TikZ I almost had to write to the
> list asking for help but after some effort (after finding Kjell's
> examples) I realized that I had to add a library. So it seems many
> newcomers are put down by this style decision in the manual.
>
>
> I don't see an ideal solution on the manual, maybe TikZ could be made
> smarter to warn the user when he/she uses a command or option that
> requires a certain library?
>
> Flavio Costa
>
>
> ----- Mensagem original ----
> De: Jens Fendler <jfendler@...>
> Para: healyp <Patrick.Healy@...>
> Cc: pgf-users@...
> Enviadas: Terça-feira, 15 de Julho de 2008 12:21:43
> Assunto: Re: [Pgf-users] pgfkeys 'circle through' error
>
> Hi Patrick,
>
> you're missing \usetikzlibrary{through}. It's working perfectly then.
>
> However, this is something I also noticed a couple of times that the
> \usetikzlibrary{...} parts are missing for most of the snippets in the
> manual - although it's saving some space I guess those necessary
> should be included for clarity.
>
> Regards,
> Jens
>
>
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