callout and beamer

Question

I am trying the callout code that Andrew has provided at How to open a temporary comics-like balloon in a beamer slide?, but I am getting an error:

Undefined control sequence. \pgf@sh@bg@ellipse callout ...pgf@sh@np@\pgf@test \noexpand \endcsname }\ede... l.20 \end{frame}

I am using TexLive-2011 on Mac OS X Lion (10.7.2).

Hmm, same issue here. Problem seems to be with the callout absolute pointer. Not really sure what is going on there. On TeTeX on Linux, yeah, I know, old... It's Tikz 2.10 though. — Roelof Spijker, Oct 18 '11 at 13:09
yes, I get the same problem, but we ignore the error, we can get the slides. — Pig Cry, Oct 18 '11 at 13:15
yes, but the positioning is off, isnt it? Since the absoule pointer doesn't work. — Roelof Spijker, Oct 18 '11 at 13:48
no, if you run it two times, you can get the right position. — Pig Cry, Oct 18 '11 at 14:03
As Pig Cry notes below, this has been asked before, though Daniel's is a better answer than mine on the previous version. Nonetheless, these ought to be linked. That also explains why I didn't spot this in my answer on the comics balloon question - I have a fixed copy of the relevant file in my TeX-SX answers directory and didn't notice it was being loaded instead of the original. My apologies for the confusion! — Andrew Stacey, Oct 18 '11 at 16:48

Daniel · Answer 1 · 2012-04-11T18:05:08.887

This is a known bug with PGF/TikZ 2.1 (see http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/b41b47158ac5d221/b7428bd8ca1084ae?pli=1)

Save the following patch as pgflibraryshapes.callouts.code.tex.diff and apply it to the file pgflibraryshapes.callouts.code.tex (you might want to create a backup first), e.g. by

patch -i pgflibraryshapes.callouts.code.tex.diff ${TEXMF}/tex/generic/pgf/libraries/shapes/pgflibraryshapes.callouts.code.tex

(where ${TEXMF} is the path to your local TEXMF directory)

@@ -247,9 +247,9 @@
            \pgf@lib@callouts@shortenpointer%
            \pgf@lib@ellipsecallout@getpoints%  
            \calloutpointeranchor%  
-           \ifx\pgf@test\pgfutil@empty%
+           \ifx\pgf@node@name\pgfutil@empty%
            \else%
-               \edef\pgf@sh@@temp{\noexpand\expandafter\noexpand\pgfutil@g@addto@macro\noexpand\csname pgf@sh@np@\pgf@test\noexpand\endcsname}%
+               \edef\pgf@sh@@temp{\noexpand\expandafter\noexpand\pgfutil@g@addto@macro\noexpand\csname pgf@sh@np@\pgf@node@name\noexpand\endcsname}%
                \edef\pgf@sh@@@temp{%
                    \noexpand\def\noexpand\calloutpointeranchor{%
                        \noexpand\pgf@x\the\pgf@x%
@@ -568,15 +568,15 @@
            \pgfmathsetlengthmacro\pointerwidth{\pgfkeysvalueof{/pgf/callout pointer width}}%
            \pgf@lib@rectanglecallout@pointer%
            %
-           % \pgf@test = the shape name (from \pgfmultipartnode)
+           % \pgf@node@name = the shape name (from \pgfmultipartnode)
            %
-           \ifx\pgf@test\pgfutil@empty%
+           \ifx\pgf@node@name\pgfutil@empty%
            \else%
                %
                % Now hack an extra saved anchor \calloutpointeranchor,
                % with the new anchor for the callout pointer.
                %
-               \edef\pgf@sh@@temp{\noexpand\expandafter\noexpand\pgfutil@g@addto@macro\noexpand\csname pgf@sh@np@\pgf@test\noexpand\endcsname}%
+               \edef\pgf@sh@@temp{\noexpand\expandafter\noexpand\pgfutil@g@addto@macro\noexpand\csname pgf@sh@np@\pgf@node@name\noexpand\endcsname}%
                \edef\pgf@sh@@@temp{%
                    \noexpand\def\noexpand\calloutpointeranchor{%
                        \noexpand\pgf@x\the\pgf@x%
@@ -862,9 +862,9 @@
            \pgfextract@process\calloutpointer{%
                \pgfpointanchor{pgf@lib@callout@pointer}{center}%
            }%
-           \ifx\pgf@test\pgfutil@empty%
+           \ifx\pgf@node@name\pgfutil@empty%
            \else%
-               \edef\pgf@sh@@temp{\noexpand\expandafter\noexpand\pgfutil@g@addto@macro\noexpand\csname pgf@sh@np@\pgf@test\noexpand\endcsname}%
+               \edef\pgf@sh@@temp{\noexpand\expandafter\noexpand\pgfutil@g@addto@macro\noexpand\csname pgf@sh@np@\pgf@node@name\noexpand\endcsname}%
                \edef\pgf@sh@@@temp{%
                    \noexpand\def\noexpand\calloutpointeranchor{%
                        \noexpand\pgf@x\the\pgf@x%

The suggested patch fails with the following error: (Patch is indented 4 spaces.) patching file pgflibraryshapes.callouts.code.tex Hunk #1 FAILED at 247. Hunk #2 FAILED at 568. Hunk #3 FAILED at 862. 3 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file pgflibraryshapes.callouts.code.tex.rej
Any idea why? — 01es, Apr 11 '12 at 17:06
+1 Applying the patch by manually modifying the file worked. Thanx for the patch. — 01es, Apr 11 '12 at 17:28
@01es: The indentation of the patch was indeed the culprit: The the @@ lines must start with column 1. All others: I have edited the patch so that a simple Copy&Paste should now work. — Daniel, Apr 11 '12 at 18:10

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 07 '12 at 21:45

9

http://old.nabble.com/callout-absolute-pointer---desired-effect-but-compile-error-td30937456.html gives a much less intrusive solution:
Make sure you have the following in the preamble:

\usetikzlibrary{shapes.callouts}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.text}

The second library is the non-intuitive part; it defines the missing \pgf@test.

Indeed worked for me with pgf 2.10-1 (ubuntu 12.04).

answered Jul 07 '12 at 21:45

anps

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in addition to user7725's post, in my case the decoration.text solution worked, while the patching produced wrong output (callout pointing to (0,0) in place of the specified point) – Davide Dec 10 '12 at 18:42
This works for me. – hengxin Nov 23 '13 at 14:06

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

3

There is a similar question TikZ “callout” positioning problem. I find other solution from internet, we can replace all \pgf@test by \pgf@node@name in pgflibraryshapes.callouts.code.tex.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

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answered Oct 18 '11 at 14:28

Pig Cry

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Well spotted! I've linked the questions together, particularly as Daniel's answer above is the fuller answer. – Andrew Stacey Oct 18 '11 at 16:50

callout and beamer

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