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LaTeX Graphics with TikZ

By : Stefan Kottwitz
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LaTeX Graphics with TikZ

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By: Stefan Kottwitz

Overview of this book

In this first-of-its-kind TikZ book, you’ll embark on a journey to discover the fascinating realm of TikZ—what it’s about, the philosophy behind it, and what sets it apart from other graphics libraries. From installation procedures to the intricacies of its syntax, this comprehensive guide will help you use TikZ to create flawless graphics to captivate your audience in theses, articles, or books. You’ll learn all the details starting with drawing nodes, edges, and arrows and arranging them with perfect alignment. As you explore advanced features, you’ll gain proficiency in using colors and transparency for filling and shading, and clipping image parts. You’ll learn to define TikZ styles and work with coordinate calculations and transformations. That’s not all! You’ll work with layers, overlays, absolute positioning, and adding special decorations and take it a step further using add-on packages for drawing diagrams, charts, and plots. By the end of this TikZ book, you’ll have mastered the finer details of image creation, enabling you to achieve visually stunning graphics with great precision.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Further reading

The TikZ manual at https://texdoc.org/pkg/tikz explains basic plotting in Part III, Section 22, Plots of Functions. You can read it online at https://tikz.dev/tikz-plots.

Part VI, Data Visualization, covers data point and function plots in depth on more than a hundred pages. This is a new and promising concept; you may consider it as a fresh alternative to pgfplots. The quick link is https://tikz.dev/dv.

The pgfplots package is comprehensively documented in its detailed manual. This excellent reference document contains numerous examples and even tutorials. You can open it at the command line with texdoc pgfplots or visit https://texdoc.org/pkg/pgfplots.

Did you like the tikz.dev deep links to particular sections in past chapters? Then you may appreciate this: while I was writing this book, the pgfplots manual was also made available as an online HTML version. You can browse it at https://tikz.dev/pgfplots.

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