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Hi all,

i tried to get a picture like the one attached. Essentially, i need to shade on the surface of a cylinder. I figured out that it could be achieved by placing many small peaces next to each other, but unfortunately it takes alot of calculation time and i guess this is surely one of the worst ...

Its exactly the same for me. You could try to remove MikTeX as well as gnuplot and reinstall both. Sorry, but i dont know what else to do. Alternatively you could use another Editor (like TeXstudio, which is my favorite editor) and see if the problem still exists there.

No, i did not change a thing. It worked out of the box for me. Attached is my log file of your example. As you can see, calling gnuplot works fine.

Stupid question, but did you check that you use the same profile (pdfLaTeX) where you added "--enable-write18" to compile the tex file? There are e.g ...

Hi,

fortunately, i'm using MikTeX and gnuplot, too, since last week. Unfortunately, I have no problems with your example in texworks!

Did you check the PATH-thing when you installed gnuplot?

Regards,
Max

Hi all,

i'm rather new to TikZ and have some problems with the intersection package.

I want to draw the picture which i attached in the pdf-file (but without the surrounding box which i added for a better description of the actual problem). As you can see, i already figured out some code that ...

Thanks localghost,
i will give it a try!

Max

Hey all,

i want to extend the itemize environment to have a parameter for the symbols. Unfortunately the following does not work and i read that \renewenvironment cannot change the number of arguments.


\let\itemizeOld=\itemize
\renewenvironment{itemize}[1][-]{\renewcommand{\labelitemi}{#1 ...

You can find many solutions with google on how to convert tables from excel to latex.

I've had the same problem some time ago. looks bad because the arrow is too small. Now i use which looks much better.

But clearly this isn't suitable if the arrow has to be extended over the whole term.

Hi,

i see two errors, one caused by \eqqcolon and the other concerning \underbracket.
Add to your header. That should work.