I draw a line with an arrow at the end by \draw[->] .... Now I would like to make the arrow bigger, and change its color to red (without impacting the line). Does anyone know how to do it?
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What do you mean by "bigger... without impacting the line"? Do you mean just to increase the size of the arrow-head? – Niel de Beaudrap Sep 02 '11 at 17:08
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Here is three methods that works:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[red,
decoration={markings,mark=at position 1 with {\arrow[scale=4,blue]{>}}},
postaction={decorate},
shorten >=0.4pt
]
(0,1.0) -- (2,1.0);
\draw[draw=red,-triangle 90,fill=blue] (0,0.5) -- (2,0.5);
\draw[red] (0,0) -- (2,0);
\draw [-to,shorten >=-1pt,gray,ultra thick] (1.99,0) -- (2,0);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
I think the first method presented here is probably the way to go but perhaps more elegant solutions will be presented by other.
Peter Grill
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at position 1did not always work. This might be a matter of low accuracy. I usedat position 0.9999as workaround. BTW: The second case, where the triangle should be filled did also not work for me; it is red. I use TikZ 3.0.1a. – John Mar 14 '17 at 17:57 -
@John: I suspect your issue is related to Arrows disappear if 0.9999 is replaced with 1 in TikZ. If you still want to get to the bottom of this I suggest posting a new question with a MWE and showing the output you get. – Peter Grill Mar 14 '17 at 20:16
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As of PGF 3.0 (maybe another version; just going by the manual), it is a lot easier to change the style of the arrow tips compared to using post decorations. Here are similar version of the three examples given in the answer https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/27287/6993 by @Peter Grill above:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[red, arrows={->[scale=4,blue]}] (0,0.0) -- (2,0.0);
\draw[red, arrows={-Triangle[angle=90:10pt,red,fill=blue]}] (0,1.0) -- (2,1.0);
\draw[red, arrows={->[line width=5pt,gray,length=5mm,width=10mm]}] (0,2.0) -- (2,2.0);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
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I agree that Peter's solution is the way to go, and I think a more elegant (and reusable) solution would be to define a style using \tikzset. The below will make the style big blue arrow available in any picture in the document.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings}
\begin{document}
\tikzset{
big blue arrow/.style={
decoration={markings,mark=at position 1 with {\arrow[scale=4,blue]{>}}},
postaction={decorate},
shorten >=0.4pt}}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[red, big blue arrow] (0,1.0) -- (2,1.0);
\draw[draw=red,-triangle 90,fill=blue] (0,0.5) -- (2,0.5);
\draw[red] (0,0) -- (2,0);
\draw [-to,shorten >=-1pt,gray,ultra thick] (1.99,0) -- (2,0);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
It is also easy to define styles that accept an argument, and to specify a default value (I hope the code is self-explaining):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings}
\begin{document}
\tikzset{
big arrow/.style={
decoration={markings,mark=at position 1 with {\arrow[scale=4,#1]{>}}},
postaction={decorate},
shorten >=0.4pt},
big arrow/.default=blue}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[red, big arrow] (0,1.0) -- (2,1.0);
\draw[red, big arrow=green] (0,0.5) -- (2,0.5);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
Augusto
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