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LaTeX Graphics with TikZ

You're reading from   LaTeX Graphics with TikZ A practitioner's guide to drawing 2D and 3D images, diagrams, charts, and plots

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Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804618233
Length 304 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with TikZ 2. Chapter 2: Creating the First TikZ Images FREE CHAPTER 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 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

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In this chapter, we learned what TikZ is, how to install it, and how to access the documentation. We had a first glimpse at the syntax and created our first TikZ figure of the book. Rest assured, there are many more to come!

In the coming chapters, we will learn more about TikZ commands, objects, and styles, to create more fancy drawings. In the next chapter, we’ll learn about the essential toolbox, with coordinates, paths, colors, lines, circles, and other curves and shapes.

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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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