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I use external .tikz files to include graphics in my LaTeX document. These .tikz files are generated by matlab2tikz. The scatter plots that come out though have very small markers. I want to scale these markers. Right now I include the .tikz file as follows:

\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \newlength\figureheight 
    \newlength\figurewidth 
    \setlength\figureheight{0.5\linewidth} 
    \setlength\figurewidth{0.5\linewidth}
    \input{images/filename.tikz}
    \caption{caption}
    \label{fig:label}
\end{figure}

How do I scale the markers at the moment I \input the .tikz file. I don't want to edit the content of the .tikz file itself. A method to scale plot markers globally would also be acceptable.

Christian Feuersänger
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Saaru Lindestøkke
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    Try \tikzset{mark size=5} (or some other value) before the \input statement. If that doesn't work, please edit your question to include the code in filename.tikz. – Jake Apr 02 '13 at 14:39
  • I don't know how matlab2tikz handles the plots but you can try adding \tikzset{every mark/.append style={scale=3}} in the preamble. – percusse Apr 02 '13 at 14:39

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You can specify the marker size globally by putting

\tikzset{mark size=5}

(or some other value) somewhere before your tikzpicture.

Jake
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  • what if I actually want to scale the marker sizes, not just set them all to a single size, i.e., I have multiple marker sizes and what the relative sizes between markers to remain the same, I just want to scale everything... – daaxix Jul 29 '15 at 21:54