Henri Menke

It's just due to the fact that you can't draw a perfect circle with Bézier curves. Even with more segments it will not match. BTW, MetaPost also only uses four...

I've thought about this and I am not going to change the default circle. Too many drawings rely on this exact shape. However, I can offer adding this as a...

The `external` library is currently unmaintained and it is unlikely that any bugs are going to be fixed in the future, due to the inherent defective design of the library....

Let's leave this open so people can see that this is unfixed.

Please test the following patch. Please also keep in mind that you can only sensibly use TikZ with the traditional (initex) catcodes. ```diff diff --git a/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfkeys.code.tex b/tex/generic/pgf/utilities/pgfkeys.code.tex index f24557f8..989f47d0 100644...

Possibly relevant: https://release.gnome.org/44/developers/#background-apps https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/#gdbus-org.freedesktop.portal.Background

Sorry, I had already reviewed this a year ago, but forgot to hit send.

dvips and XeTeX use a backend that is separate from the TeX engine, so when we move the point using PDF literals, the point where the engine inserts boxes is...

There is no spec and since TeX does not really have types, there is no structured representation in the source either.

https://tex.stackexchange.com/search?q=is%3Aquestion+pgfplots+legend+order