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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Dear All</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Apologies if this is the wrong list (but I’ve
always found participants here very helpful!).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">I have been sent some tikz code for diagrams
to be included in a forthcoming article. The author uses a version of
LaTeX but tikz should work OK in plain (Xe)TeX, I think – though I haven’t tried
it for a number of years. Oddly enough, when I invoke tikz
with:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">\input tikz</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">the package does load, and a simple drawing
works:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT> </DIV><PRE class="lang-tex prettyprint prettyprinted"><CODE><SPAN class=kwd>\tikzpicture</SPAN><SPAN class=pln>
</SPAN><SPAN class=kwd>\path</SPAN><SPAN class=pun>[</SPAN><SPAN class=pln>draw</SPAN><SPAN class=pun>=</SPAN><SPAN class=pln>red</SPAN><SPAN class=pun>]</SPAN><SPAN class=pln> </SPAN><SPAN class=pun>(</SPAN><SPAN class=pln>0,0</SPAN><SPAN class=pun>)</SPAN><SPAN class=pln> -- </SPAN><SPAN class=pun>(</SPAN><SPAN class=pln>1,1</SPAN><SPAN class=pun>)</SPAN><SPAN class=pln> -- </SPAN><SPAN class=pun>(</SPAN><SPAN class=pln>2,1</SPAN><SPAN class=pun>)</SPAN><SPAN class=pln> circle </SPAN><SPAN class=pun>(</SPAN><SPAN class=lit>10pt</SPAN><SPAN class=pun>)</SPAN><SPAN class=pln>;
</SPAN><SPAN class=kwd>\endtikzpicture</SPAN><SPAN class=pln>
</SPAN></CODE></PRE>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">(pasted from a stackexchange discussion of a
different matter).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">BUT, before the drawing I get six lines of
info in the output (the sort of thing I’d expect in the log), viz.:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">pgfrcs[2010/10/25 v2.10 (rcs-revision
1.24)]</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">pgf[2008/01/15 (rcs-revision
1.10)]</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">pgfsys[2010/06/30 v2.10 (rcs-revision
1.37)]</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">pgfcore[2010/04/11 v2.10 (rcs-revision
1.7)]</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">pgffor[2010/03/23 v2.10 (rcs-revision
1.18)]</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">tikz[2010/10/13 v2.10 (rcs-revision
1.76)]</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">It also messes up my crop marks and running
headlines in subsequent pages, but I suspect that could be rectified by invoking
other \inputs in a different order (I include edmac and pstricks at the
start). I can manage without tikz if necessary (the worst-case scenario
would be redrawing with pstricks), but it would be good to know at least that I
can use tikz in future without these unwanted half-dozen lines coming into the
output. It’s a powerful package that I’ve always meant to
learn.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Best</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">John</FONT></DIV>
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