Stefan Kottwitz

LATEX Graphics with TikZ

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Unleash the power of LaTeX to create professional text, articles, diagrams, and charts using TikZ and its wide range of features for stunning 2D and 3D effects

Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Key Features

Achieve native construction of images and diagrams in your LaTex theses, articles, or books with enhanced quality

Discover comprehensive explanations and real-world use cases to apply in your own endavors

Explore customizations and tweaks to grasp the synergy of LaTeX and TikZ graphics

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

Understand the TikZ language and how to use its libraries and packages

Draw geometric shapes with text and add arrows, labels, and decorations

Apply transformations and use transparency, shading, fading, and filling features

Define styles and program with loops to streamline your code

Build trees, graphs, and mind maps and draw easy curves with smooth transitions

Produce block diagrams and flow charts to visualize process steps

Generate line charts and bar charts to showcase your data

Plot data sets and mathematical functions in two and three dimensions

Who this book is for

This book is for LaTeX users, including students and academic authors, seeking to incorporate figures such as diagrams, plots, and graphics to their theses, articles, and books. If you’re familiar with LaTeX basics from beginner’s books or tutorials, you’ll be able to effortlessly explore the graphics topics in this book.

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477 printed pages
Original publication
2023
Publication year
2023
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