Stefan Kottwitz

LaTeX Graphics with TikZ (eBook, ePUB)

A practitioner's guide to drawing 2D and 3D images, diagrams, charts, and plots

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781804617045
• Artikelnr.: 68301375

Autorenporträt

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.