Dear All Apologies if this is the wrong list (but I’ve always found participants here very helpful!).
I have been sent some tikz code for diagrams to be included in a forthcoming article. The author uses a version of LaTeX but tikz should work OK in plain (Xe)TeX, I think – though I haven’t tried it for a number of years. Oddly enough, when I invoke tikz with: \input tikz the package does load, and a simple drawing works: \tikzpicture \path[draw=red] (0,0) -- (1,1) -- (2,1) circle (10pt); \endtikzpicture (pasted from a stackexchange discussion of a different matter). BUT, before the drawing I get six lines of info in the output (the sort of thing I’d expect in the log), viz.: pgfrcs[2010/10/25 v2.10 (rcs-revision 1.24)] pgf[2008/01/15 (rcs-revision 1.10)] pgfsys[2010/06/30 v2.10 (rcs-revision 1.37)] pgfcore[2010/04/11 v2.10 (rcs-revision 1.7)] pgffor[2010/03/23 v2.10 (rcs-revision 1.18)] tikz[2010/10/13 v2.10 (rcs-revision 1.76)] It also messes up my crop marks and running headlines in subsequent pages, but I suspect that could be rectified by invoking other \inputs in a different order (I include edmac and pstricks at the start). I can manage without tikz if necessary (the worst-case scenario would be redrawing with pstricks), but it would be good to know at least that I can use tikz in future without these unwanted half-dozen lines coming into the output. It’s a powerful package that I’ve always meant to learn. Best John
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