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LaTeX Graphics with TikZ

By : Stefan Kottwitz
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LaTeX Graphics with TikZ

4.5 (4)
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 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:

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: