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cannot label edge in tikz graph

cannot label edge in tikz graph

by Joseph Pedersen -
Number of replies: 6

The code below makes the edge red, but does not add the label "foo", as it does on the example posted https://tikz.dev/tikz-graphs

Is there something about PG that requires a different syntax to label the edge?

DOCUMENT();

loadMacros('PGstandard.pl', 'PGML.pl',"MathObjects.pl",

"parserFunction.pl", 'PGtikz.pl','PGcourse.pl');

# whether or not to graph this edge

$bd = random(0,1);

# Create the graph

$graph_image = createTikZImage();

$graph_image->tikzLibraries("graphs", "quotes");

$graph_image->BEGIN_TIKZ

  \node (a) at (0,0) {\(S_1\)};

  \node (b) at (0,4) {\(S_2\)};

  \node (c) at (3,0) {\(D_1\)};

  \node (d) at (3,4) {\(D_2\)};

  \graph { (a) -> (c);}

  \graph { (a) -> [red, "foo"] (d);}

  \graph { (b) -> (c);}

  \ifdim 1 pt = $bd pt\relax \graph {(b) -> (d);};\fi

END_TIKZ

BEGIN_PGML

Here's a graph

>> [@ image($graph_image, width => 300, tex_size => 450) @]* <<

END_PGML

ENDDOCUMENT();
In reply to Joseph Pedersen

Re: cannot label edge in tikz graph

by Glenn Rice -
I think that you are misinterpreting something in the PGF/TikZ manual. Your code also doesn't work directly in TeX to do what you want. I am not entirely certain where you want the "foo" label to appear, but to add it you would need to use a \node. In the syntax ->[red] the things in the brackets are options that apply to the -> preceeding it. If you add "foo" in the brackets, then TeX complains I do not know the key '/tikz/"{foo}"' and I am going to ignore it.
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Re: cannot label edge in tikz graph

by Joseph Pedersen -
I have never used TeX directly, but in LaTeX, this works:
\documentclass[tikz]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\usetikzlibrary{graphs,quotes}
\tikz \graph {
a ->[red, "foo"] b;
};
\end{document}

This example was adapted from here:
https://tikz.dev/tikz-graphs#sec-19.2.3
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Re: cannot label edge in tikz graph

by Joseph Pedersen -

From the documentation, it seems like putting a string in the options to be used as a label is part of the quotes library.

https://tikz.dev/tikz-graphs#sec-19.6.1

In reply to Joseph Pedersen

Re: cannot label edge in tikz graph

by Glenn Rice -

I was generically referring to TeX as the underlying system.  I used pdflatex to test your code.

You didn't refer to the quotes library before, and I didn't add that in my testing.  With that added, the "foo" label does appear.

The problem is how you are adding the "graphs" and "quotes" libraries.  See the documentation in PGtikz.pl.  The tikzLibraries method only takes one string argument.  The example in the documentation is 

$image->tikzLibraries("arrows.meta,calc");
So change 
$graph_image->tikzLibraries("graphs", "quotes");
to 
$graph_image->tikzLibraries("graphs,quotes");

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Re: cannot label edge in tikz graph

by Joseph Pedersen -

That worked, thanks!

For anyone trying to label edges using the quotes library and finding this page, I'll say that you CANNOT just save the string in a Perl variable and use that Perl variable like:

\graph {(a) -> [red, $wt] (d);}

Instead, you need to surround the Perl variable by quotes like:

\graph {(a) -> [red, "$wt"] (d);}

Here's a more complete example:

$wt = 567; # or $wt = "567";  same thing

$graph_image = createTikZImage();

$graph_image->tikzLibraries("graphs,quotes");

$graph_image->BEGIN_TIKZ

  \node (a) at (0,6) {\(S_1\)};

  \node (d) at (4,6) {\(D_1\)};

 \graph [edge quotes={fill=white,inner sep=1pt}] { (a) -> [red, very near start, "$wt"] (d);}

 END_TIKZ
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Re: cannot label edge in tikz graph

by Alex Jordan -

$wt =567 and $wt ="567" are equivalent in perl.

If you used $wt = '"567"', it should work. Those are single quotes to delimit a string in perl, and that string has double quotes in it.