What does PGF stand for LaTeX?
Till Tantau is the designer of the PGF and TikZ languages. He is also the main developer of the only known interpreter for PGF and TikZ, which is written in TeX. PGF is an acronym for “Portable Graphics Format”.
What is TikZ LaTeX?
TikZ is probably the most complex and powerful tool to create graphic elements in LaTeX. Starting with a simple example, this article introduces some basic concepts: drawing lines, dots, curves, circles, rectangles etc.
What does TikZ stand for?
TikZ ist kein Zeichenprogramm
to Portable Graphics Format. In a tip of the hat to the recursive acronym GNU (i.e., GNU’s not Unix), TikZ stands for “TikZ ist kein Zeichenprogramm”, a reminder that TikZ is not an interactive drawing program.
What is a node in TikZ?
A node is typically a rectangle or circle or another simple shape with some text on it. In the simplest case, a node is just some text that is placed at some coordinate. Nodes are not part of the path itself, they are added to the picture after the path has been drawn.
How do you write text in TikZ?
Within your figure environment you can start a TikZ figure by writing the code \begin{tikzpicture} , after which you can start typesetting your figure. As usual you close the environment with the code \end{tikzpicture} .
How do I use TikZ in LaTeX?
Using TikZ in a LaTeX document requires loading the tikz package:
- sepackage{tikz} somewhere in the preamble.
- setikzlibrary{⟨list of libraries separated by commas⟩}
- \begin{tikzpicture}[⟨options⟩] ⟨tikz commands⟩ \end{tikzpicture}
- \tikz[⟨options⟩]{⟨tikz commands⟩}
What are the units in TikZ?
Unlike MetaPost, TikZ uses one centimeter as the default unit of measure, so the four points used in this example lie on the x and y axes, one centimeter from the origin. In the process of developing and “debugging” graphics, it can be helpful to include a background grid.
What is inner Sep in TikZ?
The inner sep is the gap between the text and the node border. You can set the horizontal/vertical value separately with inner xsep/inner ysep. Imagine that you have a picture with a lot of nodes — writing these options for every node could be boring! But LATEX is fun; it is made to avoid code repetition, quack!
Is TikZ worth learning?
Tikz is really powerful. It has mathematical evaluation, loops, and some recursion to help you generate complicated diagrams from relatively little code. (If you need real function calls and lambdas and so on, then you probably have to go to something like Python + matplotlib.