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by jake
Sun Jul 08, 2012 7:52 pm
Forum: Graphics, Figures & Tables
Topic: tikZ | Many small Triangles form a Word
Replies: 14
Views: 13637

Re: tikZ | Many small Triangles form a Word

There are quite detailed explanations in Andrew's answer. He's provided a small script file that calls fontforge and converts the font to SVG. Could you add some more detail about where exactly you're stuck? Probably best to post that as a comment to Andrew's question, because he's obviously the ...
by jake
Fri Jul 06, 2012 11:14 am
Forum: Graphics, Figures & Tables
Topic: tikZ | Many small Triangles form a Word
Replies: 14
Views: 13637

Re: tikZ | Many small Triangles form a Word

You might want to take a look at the solutions proposed at http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/21548. Andrew Stacey has come up with a nice approach for this problem. In the example, letters are used, but adjusting it to use triangles should be reasonably simple.
by jake
Sat Jun 23, 2012 11:30 pm
Forum: Graphics, Figures & Tables
Topic: Regular Pentagon with labeled Vertices
Replies: 3
Views: 9813

Regular Pentagon with labeled Vertices

Yup, I would also go with TikZ. You'll probably be happier learning TikZ than the picture environment syntax, as it's a lot more powerful.

Stefan's example can even be simplified a bit:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\newdimen\R
\R=0.8cm

\draw (0 ...