Jollywatt
Customizing path decorations for arrows
Hi, I am currently exploring how to better customize path decorations for edges in Fletcher.
In fletcher, it's easy to add wave decorations, but finer customization seems a bit harder. Here's a comparison of the current default and what I'm aiming for.
Right now, my code involves a hack with hardcoded lengths that doesn't work well in all cases. Here's a snippet of what I have:
#import "@preview/fletcher:0.5.0" as fletcher: diagram, node, edge
#import "@preview/cetz:0.2.2"
Default wave arrow: #diagram(
$X && Y$,
edge(
(0,0),(2,0), $f$, "->", decorations:cetz.decorations.wave.with(
amplitude: .06,
segment-length: .25
)
)
)
Desired wave arrow: #diagram(
$X && Y$,
edge(
(0,0),(1.69,0), "-", decorations:cetz.decorations.wave.with( // hardcoded length 1.69
amplitude: .06,
segment-length: .25
)
),
edge(
(1.69,0),(2,0), "->",
),
edge(
(0,0),(2,0), $f$, stroke: none
)
)
Basic Customization
As a starting point, I'd like to adjust the length of the segment from the end of the wave to the end of the entire arrow. The default is a bit too long for what I need. To be precise, I'd like to adjust the length of the red segment in the following diagram.
Futher Customization
Ideally, I also want to recreate the following tikzcd plot.
Here's the snippet of the LaTeX code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{cd, decorations.pathmorphing,}
\tikzcdset{arrow style=tikz,
squigarrow/.style={
decoration={
snake,
amplitude=.25mm,
segment length=2mm
},
rounded corners=.1pt,
decorate
}
}
\begin{document}
\[
\begin{tikzcd}
X \arrow[r, "f", "(5.5T)"', squigarrow] &[1em] Y \arrow[r, "f", "(5T)"', squigarrow] &[0.6em] Z
\end{tikzcd}
\]
\end{document}
I am not sure how exactly wave decoration works in Fletcher. Please correct me if I get it wrong. I guess if the total width of a wave path is fixed, the wave decoration attempts to adjust the wave length or period of the wave to match the segment-length parameter as closely as possible. So we always get sine waves spanning $n$ full periods, where $n$ is an integer.
I am aiming to adjust this so that half a wave length can match segment-length * 0.5 as closely as possible, allowing for sine waves spanning $n/2$ period. As illustrated in the above tikzcd plot, the spanning periods of two waves are 5.5 and 5 respectively.
Could you guide me on how to customize the wave decorations in Fletcher to achieve this effect? Thanks for any guidance!
