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Motivated by this question, I was wondering if there is a way to produce curved arrow heads with either pstricks and/or tikZ (alphabetic ordering;-). To be more specific, I'm interested in something like the top arrow in

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which I produced with the feynmf code

\begin{fmfgraph*}(30,22)
\fmfleft{i}
\fmfright{o}
\fmf{fermion,label={}}{i,v,v,o}
\end{fmfgraph*}

(I only include the diagram code here because there are different ways of embedding these diagrams in LaTeX documents and please don't worry about the label={}. The way this curved arrow is produced is not relevant to the question, anyway.)

  • I'm trying to compile the code you provided, but I get a I detected a fmfgraph environment outside of fmffile. Do you know how to solve it? – Phelype Oleinik Jan 11 '18 at 17:40
  • look at nonlinear transforms there is an example in the manual – percusse Jan 11 '18 at 17:42
  • @PhelypeOleinik The code for the fmfgraph should not be relevant, but I am wrapping the code between \begin{document} \begin{fmffile}{Test} and \end{fmffile} \end{document} in a document that loads \usepackage{feynmp}. And of course I run mpost. –  Jan 11 '18 at 17:43
  • @percusse Do you mean the tikz-pgf manual? –  Jan 11 '18 at 17:45
  • @marmot Ah, sorry. I misunderstood your question :). In this case, I suggest you take a look at page 33 of the VisualTikZ. Also, try this: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{bending,arrows.meta} \begin{document} \tikz\draw[-{Stealth[length=1cm,open,bend]}] (0,0) .. controls (1,-1) and (2,1) .. (3,1); \end{document}. If you like, I make it an answer. – Phelype Oleinik Jan 11 '18 at 17:49
  • @PhelypeOleinik Amazing! Thanks a lot! Want to turn this into an answer? (I'll wait a bit before I accept it in order to see whether there is also a pstricks solution.) –  Jan 11 '18 at 17:59

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Here it goes then :)

From page 33 of the VisualTikZ:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}% Arrows library for...
\usetikzlibrary{bending}% The bending library is the one that allows the bending of the arrows
\begin{document}
% And a few examples:
\tikz{\draw[-{Latex[length=1cm,open,bend]},thick] (0,0) .. controls (1,-1) and (2,1) .. (3,1);}
\tikz{\draw[-{Stealth[length=1cm,open,bend]},thick] (0,0) .. controls (1,-1) and (2,1) .. (3,1);}
\tikz{\draw[-{Computer Modern Rightarrow[length=1cm,open,bend]},thick] (0,0) .. controls (1,-1) and (2,1) .. (3,1);}
\tikz{\draw[-{Bar[length=1cm,open,bend]},thick] (0,0) .. controls (1,-1) and (2,1) .. (3,1);}

Something went rwong with this one :P

\tikz{\draw[-{Hooks[length=1cm,open,bend]},thick] (0,0) .. controls (1,-1) and (2,1) .. (3,1);}
\end{document}

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VisualTikZ and VisualPSTricks are excellent for quick reference and for those too lazy to read, like me.

I looked a little but didn't find the corresponding Trick in VisualPSTricks (hehe...).

Phelype Oleinik
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