Creating Graphics
In this chapter, we will explore LaTeX’s extensive graphic capabilities. You will learn to create impressive graphics of various kinds.
This chapter covers the following topics:
- Building smart diagrams
- Constructing a flowchart
- Growing a tree
- Building a bar chart
- Drawing a pie chart
- Drawing a Venn diagram
- Putting thoughts into a mind map
- Generating a timeline
A picture is worth a thousand words. Presenting a single image can significantly simplify the understanding of complex concepts. Diagrams, in particular, help to distill pertinent information, showcase relationships and process sequences, and facilitate quantity comparisons.
In this chapter, you will primarily find recipes for various diagram types, complemented by further valuable graphic recipes.
All the recipes in this chapter are based on the highly capable graphics package pgf/TikZ. pgf stands for Portable Graphics Format, serving as the backend,...
