a number of ideas

[sharethewisdom]

The first thing that came to mind when I first saw your package was that I'd like a tikzling to raise an arm to point to an exercise on a worksheet for children, while saying something. May I suggest support for:

• [ ] sideward options for other tikzlings
• [ ] hats adaptations if sideward is true
• [ ] bubbleside to customize left or right for think and speech
• [ ] rotatearms for other tikzlings, and add rotatearmleft/rotatearmright where possible
• [x] means to offset x, y and/or rotation for accessories
• [ ] more tikzlings (squid, worm, bird, ...)

(The suggested tikzlings should probably produce an error for rotatearms.)

ps. this isn't a list of demands, I'm happy to help, but no promises though.

[samcarter]

@sharethewisdom Sorry for my late reply, I somehow did not get notified about the new issue (maybe my recent change of github username messed things up...)

This are all great suggestions and I put them on my todo list, but it may take some time to implement them all. In case you'd like to contribute anything, I'd be happy to receive pull requests!

About the second to last item:

For everything more complicate than just adding an item, I suggest a syntax like

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikzlings}

\begin{document}
	
\begin{tikzpicture}
	\owl
	\thing[hat,xshift=3cm,rotate=40]
\end{tikzpicture}	
	
\end{document}