Tikz at PF: \begin{tikzpicture} Help

[bob012345]

TL;DR Summary

I cannot see any examples of tikz working.

I have this line;

\begin{tikzpicture} \mobiusstrip{1}{0.5} \end{tikzpicture}

What do I do to make it work? Thanks.

 

[fresh_42]

TL;DR Summary: I cannot see any examples of tikz working.

I have this line;

\begin{tikzpicture} \mobiusstrip{1}{0.5} \end{tikzpicture}

What do I do to make it work? Thanks.

PF uses MathJax and not LaTeX. So not all libraries are available, and cannot be loaded either.

 

[bob012345]

Was it part of the MHB site that was merged?

 

[fresh_42]

IDK. It has been MathJax here since I joined. I have a tex editor running in parallel in case I want to write mathematical stuff that is more than a simple line. I rather copy, paste and finally adjust it than write it here. That means I have all environments that I want available and could copy tikz diagrams via screenshots.

 

[Ibix]

Was it part of the MHB site that was merged?

I believe they had tikz, yes, and posts using it are most likely ones from there.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Was it part of the MHB site that was merged?

IDK. It has been MathJax here since I joined.

MHB had an implementation of LaTeX that allowed tikz to be rendered in the browser:

MHB had a dedicated server that converted TikZ code to pictures on the fly.

We don't have that here in PF. You can, however, always render the tikz on your system and post a picture of the result.

 

[topsquark]

TL;DR Summary: I cannot see any examples of tikz working.

I have this line;

\begin{tikzpicture} \mobiusstrip{1}{0.5} \end{tikzpicture}

What do I do to make it work? Thanks.

If all you want is a compiler to make a pdf then I'd suggest looking into Overleaf. Now, I've been using a LaTeX based word processor, LyX,, that also incorporates TikZ, though to save some time I usually use it to generate pdfs as it slows down the rendering time for the text.

-Dan