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Published inJun 2023
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ISBN-139781804618233
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Stefan Kottwitz
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Stefan Kottwitz

Stefan Kottwitz studied mathematics in Jena and Hamburg. He works as a network and IT security engineer both for Lufthansa Industry Solutions and for Eurowings Aviation. For many years, he has been providing LaTeX support on online forums. He maintains the web forums LaTeX and goLaTeX and the Q&A sites TeXwelt and TeXnique. He runs the TeX graphics gallery sites TeXample, TikZ, and PGFplots, the TeXlive online compiler, the TeXdoc service, and the CTAN software mirror. He is a moderator of the TeX Stack Exchange site and matheplanet. He publishes ideas and news from the TeX world on his blogs LaTeX and TeX. Before this book, he authored the first edition of LaTeX Beginner's Guide in 2011, and LaTeX Cookbook in 2015, both published by Packt.
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Drawing cute creatures

The internet is full of memes about animals and cartoon characters. They have found their way into TikZ as well. In addition, avatars of users from the TikZ community and their favorite animals have been immortalized through the TikZ code. Let’s see some examples.

Playing with rubber ducks

Ducks are well-known for internet memes. In the developer community, for example, rubber duck debugging is a famous software debugging technique where the programmer explains their code in front of a rubber duck in every detail. By explaining it and articulating details and reasons, programmers can identify issues or bugs they would not have noticed by staring at the code. The rubber duck toy is also here rather as a meme than the solution itself. You can use, for example, a teddy bear instead, whom you will meet in the next section.

Rubber ducks, as classic toys, are so playful and fun that they have become a popular collectible item. Companies offer rubber...

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Published in: Jun 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804618233

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Stefan Kottwitz

Stefan Kottwitz studied mathematics in Jena and Hamburg. He works as a network and IT security engineer both for Lufthansa Industry Solutions and for Eurowings Aviation. For many years, he has been providing LaTeX support on online forums. He maintains the web forums LaTeX and goLaTeX and the Q&A sites TeXwelt and TeXnique. He runs the TeX graphics gallery sites TeXample, TikZ, and PGFplots, the TeXlive online compiler, the TeXdoc service, and the CTAN software mirror. He is a moderator of the TeX Stack Exchange site and matheplanet. He publishes ideas and news from the TeX world on his blogs LaTeX and TeX. Before this book, he authored the first edition of LaTeX Beginner's Guide in 2011, and LaTeX Cookbook in 2015, both published by Packt.
Read more about Stefan Kottwitz