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    Highlight a part of a bounding box in Tikz. Use with \negativebox{x1,y1}{x2,y2} inside tikzpicture
  
        
  
    
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  | \newcommand\negativebox[2]{% | |
| \def\opc{0.75} | |
| \def\opcol{white} | |
| % Left | |
| \fill[opacity=\opc, color=\opcol] | |
| let | |
| \p{sw} = (current bounding box.south west), | |
| \p{nw} = (current bounding box.north west), | |
| \p1 = (#1) | |
| in (\p{sw}) rectangle (\x1, \y{nw});% | |
| % Above | |
| \fill[opacity=\opc, color=\opcol] | |
| let | |
| \p{sw} = (current bounding box.south west), | |
| \p{ne} = (current bounding box.north east), | |
| \p1 = (#1), | |
| \p2 = (#2) | |
| in (\x1, \y2) rectangle (\x2, \y{ne}); | |
| % Right | |
| \fill[opacity=\opc, color=\opcol] | |
| let | |
| \p{se} = (current bounding box.south east), | |
| \p{ne} = (current bounding box.north east), | |
| \p2 = (#2) | |
| in (\x2, \y{se}) rectangle (\p{ne}); | |
| % Below | |
| \fill[opacity=\opc, color=\opcol] | |
| let | |
| \p{sw} = (current bounding box.south west), | |
| \p{nw} = (current bounding box.north west), | |
| \p1 = (#1), | |
| \p2 = (#2) | |
| in (\x1, \y{sw}) rectangle (\x2, \y1); | |
| } | 
  
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