Tikz picture inline

Question

Is there any way of placing a tikzpicture code inline? Here is what I want to actuall achieve:

A convex function is denoted by "tikz code for convexity"

Someone told me this is possible. Also, in tikz-pgf tutorial I have seen many tikz codes inline. For example in the scaling section the author places a rotating ellipse inline (that is next to the text)

How can this be achieved?

You should take into account, that 'inline' means normally on the same baseline, so this might stretch the line height, since tikz figures are usually larger than 1ex — , Jun 09 '16 at 16:08
A tikzpicture is not really much different from the letter X, in that as far as TeX is concerned it is just a box that it is placed on the current baseline. — Torbjørn T., Jun 09 '16 at 16:23
Thank you all either for your answers or your comments. I accept the second one but I guess that Rmano's answer will come in handy some time. :) — Tolaso, Jun 09 '16 at 16:50

score 26 · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-18T20:38:02.350

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Either use tikzpicture as an environment or the \tikz inline macro.

But the problem with the line stretching is quite obvious!

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shadings}

\begin{document}
A stupid text followed by \begin{tikzpicture}\draw[fill=red,line width=1pt]  circle(1ex);\end{tikzpicture}

A stupid text followed by \tikz{\draw[fill=red,line width=1pt]  circle(1ex);}

A stupid text followed by another stupid text followed

A stupid text followed by some dots \tikz{%
    \foreach \x /\cola in {1/blue,2/yellow,3/red,4/green,5/orange}  {%
      \shade[ball color=\cola] (\x,0)  circle(0.5ex*\x);
    }%
}
\end{document}

edited Feb 18 '19 at 20:38

answered Jun 09 '16 at 16:12

isn't just \tikz ... ; without the braces? (Seems to work both way, though). +1. – Rmano Jun 09 '16 at 16:25
@Rmano: Yes, you're right. I am not using \tikz... very often. – Jun 09 '16 at 16:27
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@Tolaso: You're welcome. Happy TeXing! – Jun 09 '16 at 16:55
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@to myself: use \protect before \tikz in captions – dEmigOd Aug 16 '21 at 08:43

score 16 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 09 '16 at 16:23

Another example from a real-life document I have:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tikz}

\newcommand{\ground}{%
    \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.5, baseline=-3mm, thick]
    \draw (0,0) -- +(0mm,-4.0mm) {
        [yshift=-4mm]
        +(-2mm,0mm) -- +(2mm,0mm)
                +(-1mm,-1mm) -- +(1mm,-1mm)
                +(-0.3mm,-2mm) -- +(0.3mm,-2mm)
        };
    \end{tikzpicture}%
}

\begin{document}

We have a text here, and then I refer to the ground (\ground) connection point in the instrument. Clearly, the \ground{} symbol will change the spacing... 
you can play with the \texttt{scale} and \texttt{baseline=-3mm} parameters in the definition\dots 
\end{document}

+1 for the baseline option. – Paul Gaborit Feb 18 '19 at 23:15 — Paul Gaborit, Feb 18 '19 at 23:15

score 11 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 09 '16 at 21:35

11

Here is a suggestion on how to place inline and the tikz code not be high enough from the text.

\raisebox{-2pt}{\tikz{\draw[line width=1pt, >->] (0, 0) arc (-180:0:8pt);}}

The output that gave me was the following, which is quite good I guess.

answered Jun 09 '16 at 21:35

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