Further reading

The TikZ manual has the complete reference on keys, handlers, styles, and pics. Open it using texdoc tikz at the command line or visit https://texdoc.org/pkg/tikz.

The topics of this chapter are covered in depth in these sections in Part III:

• Section 12, Hierarchical Structures, talks more about scopes. The direct online link is https://tikz.dev/tikz-scopes.
• Section 18, Pics: Small Pictures on Paths, describes the pic feature. The online manual link is https://tikz.dev/tikz-pics.

Part VII, Section 87, Key management, explains keys and handlers. An online version is at https://tikz.dev/pgfkeys. It also describes the usage of style arguments in depth.

While this chapter gives you a quick start for easy comprehension, the TikZ manual is the complete reference.

There are further online resources worth taking a look at:

• https://tikz.net/tag/styles shows TikZ drawing examples focusing on styles
• https://texample.net/tikz/examples/feature...