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3.2.5 Specials

Syntax:

     special $raw_text$[options] arg_list

Here $ can be any character and is used to delimit the start and end of raw_text. The command embeds raw_text in the sketch output after performing substitutions as follows.

The forms with braces { } are useful when the argument is immediately followed by a digit or a tick character that is part of the TeX code.

The only useful option of special is lay, which determines if the substitued raw text is emitted before, after, or using the first point in point_list as an indicator of depth. These occur, respectively, with lay=under, lay=over, and lay=in. See Special objects and TikZ/PGF user-defined styles for examples. See Internal options.