Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Draw Color and Fill Color of a Bullet Symbol

[leandroponsoni]

Hi everybody,

My name is Leandro. I already used this forum a lot of times to solve some "problems". At this time I didn't find the answer.

I would like to add some \bullet in my text. But I want bullets with different draw color and fill color (like Matlab does, for example see attachment).

Does anybody know how to do this (if it is possible)?

Thank you very much for your help.

[localghost]

Create a new symbol by graphical packages like PGF/TikZ or PSTricks. And perhaps some background information about the purpose of this new symbol could be helpful. The final solution might depend on that.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[leandroponsoni]

Hello Thorsten,

Thank you very much for your help. I appreciated a lot your tip. I didn't know the packages pgf/TikZ. And it looks like a really powerful tool.

I am posting the solution, maybe can help others.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}

\newcommand{\newsymbol}{
\begin{tikzpicture}
\filldraw[fill=black,draw=yellow] circle (3pt);
\end{tikzpicture}
}

\begin{document}
  Um simples teste \newsymbol.
\end{document}

Or use \protect\newsymbol inside of the figure captions.

Regards.

[localghost]

In case you need a more flexible command for bullets with different colors, try something like this.

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{tikz}

%% Macro for a bullet symbol with two mandatory arguments
%% #1: draw color
%% #2: fill color
%% for color names see the »xcolor« manual
\newcommand*{\tikzbullet}[2]{%
  \setbox0=\hbox{\strut}%
  \begin{tikzpicture}
    \useasboundingbox (-.25em,0) rectangle (.25em,\ht0);
    \filldraw[draw=#1,fill=#2] (0,0.5\ht0) circle[radius=.25em];
  \end{tikzpicture}%
}

\begin{document}
  A variety of colored bullets:
  \tikzbullet{orange}{green}
  \tikzbullet{blue}{lime}
  \tikzbullet{cyan}{yellow}
  \tikzbullet{red}{teal}.
\end{document}