[texhax] tikz-options as macro

Arno Trautmann Arno.Trautmann at gmx.de
Sun Jul 25 17:38:27 CEST 2010


Hi all,

I have some problems using tikz: I try to pass some options in a macro,
in the following way:

\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{tikz}

\def\reddot{red,dotted}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[\reddot] (1,1) to (1,2);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

but this gives me:

! Package pgfkeys Error: I do not know the key '/tikz/red,dotted' and I
am goin
g to ignore it. Perhaps you misspelled it.

See the pgfkeys package documentation for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...

l.18 \draw[\test]
                  (1,1) to (1,2);
?

So pgf thinks I am passing “red,dotted” as one option. Is there any
trick to avoid this behaviour? I would like to use this way of passing
several options in a package – an alternative would be to pass
\red,\dot, but that is not very nice …

Thanks for any help,
cheers
Arno

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