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LaTeX Graphics with TikZ

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Product type Book

Published in Jun 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804618233

Pages 304 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Stefan Kottwitz

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with TikZ

2. Chapter 2: Creating the First TikZ Images

3. Chapter 3: Drawing and Positioning Nodes

4. Chapter 4: Drawing Edges and Arrows

5. Chapter 5: Using Styles and Pics

6. Chapter 6: Drawing Trees and Graphs

7. Chapter 7: Filling, Clipping, and Shading

8. Chapter 8: Decorating Paths

9. Chapter 9: Using Layers, Overlays, and Transparency

10. Chapter 10: Calculating with Coordinates and Paths

11. Chapter 11: Transforming Coordinates and Canvas

12. Chapter 12: Drawing Smooth Curves

13. Chapter 13: Plotting in 2D and 3D

14. Chapter 14: Drawing Diagrams

15. Chapter 15: Having Fun with TikZ

16. Index

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17. Other Books You May Enjoy

What is TikZ?

The inventor of TikZ, Till Tantau, created the name as a recursive acronym in German. TikZ stands for TikZ ist kein Zeichenprogramm, which translates to TikZ is not a drawing program. It’s Tantau’s jokey way of emphasizing that you cannot expect to draw with it like with a pen or just mouse clicks, such as with Microsoft Paint on Windows, Paintbrush on a Mac, Adobe Illustrator Draw, or the free Inkscape vector graphics editor.

Simply said, TikZ is a set of TeX commands for drawing graphics. Just like LaTeX is code that describes a document, TikZ is code that describes graphics and looks like LaTeX code. With TikZ, you write \draw [blue] circle (1cm); to get a blue circle with a 1 cm radius in your PDF document.

The origin of TikZ is called PGF, which stands for Portable Graphics Format and is a set of graphics macros that can be used with pdfLaTeX and the classic DVI/PostScript-based LaTeX. Today, we consider TikZ as the frontend and PGF as the backend...

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Authors (1)

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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