Hi Eric

Thanks for your comments.

I will look into both of them.

Cheers,

Rainer


On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> Following up on my own message, one thing to consider is that
> generating the figure in latex creates a PDF that takes up the whole
> page but the figure is only a small part of this page.  In latex, if I
> wanted the PDF to include only the tikz figure, I would do the
> following:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> \documentclass{article}
>
> [...]
>
> \usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview}
> \setlength\PreviewBorder{5pt}%
>
> \begin{document}
>  % Define block styles
>  \begin{preview}
>
> [... the tikz commands ...]
>
>  \end{preview}
> \end{document}
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> It may be worthwhile providing this type of option to babel-latex?
>
> --
> Eric S Fraga
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>
>


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