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О.А.Федотова

Коллекция: «Документы и публикации в Цифровой Библиотеке» (publications)

Раздел: 4. Документы. Подраздел: 38. Документация ПО.

  The TikZ and PGF Packages (Manual for version 3.0.1a; 2015.08.29) // - 2013, p.1161.

 The TikZ and PGF Packages (Manual for version 2.10; 2010.10.25) // - 2010, p.726

Abstract:

Welcome to the documentation of TikZ and the underlying pgf system. What began as a small LaTEX style for creating the graphics in my (Till Tantau’s) PhD thesis directly with pdfLATEX has now grown to become a full-flung graphics language with a manual of over a thousand pages. The wealth of options offered by TikZ is often daunting to beginners; but fortunately this documentation comes with a number slowly-paced tutorials that will teach you almost all you should know about TikZ without your having to read the rest.

I wish to start with the questions “What is TikZ?” Basically, it just defines a number of TEX commands that draw graphics. For example, the code \tikz \draw (0pt,0pt) --(20pt,6pt); yields the line and the code \tikz \fill[orange] (1ex,1ex) circle (1ex); yields . In a sense, when you use TikZ you “program” your graphics, just as you “program” your document when you use TEX. This also explains the name: TikZ is a recursive accronym in the tradition of “gnu is not unix” and means “TikZ ist kein Zeichenprogramm,” which translates to “TikZ is not a drawing program,” cautioning the reader as to what to expect. With TikZ you get all the advantages of the “TEX-approach to typesetting” for your graphics: quick creation of simple graphics, precise positioning, the use of macros, often superior typography. You also inherit all the disadvantages: steep learning curve, no wysiwyg, small changes require a long recompilation time, and the code does not really “show” how things will look like.

Now that we know what TikZ is, what about “pgf”? As mentioned earlier, TikZ started out as a project to implement TEX graphics macros that can be used both with pdfLATEX and also with the classical (PostScript-based) LATEX. In other words, I wanted to implement a “portable graphics format” for TEX – hence the name pgf. These early macros are still around and they form the “basic layer” of the system described in this manual, but most of the interaction an author has theses days is with TikZ – which has become a whole language of its own.

: Manual for version 3.0.1a; 2015.08.29 (File size 10.007574 Mb) Full Text:

: Manual for version 2.10. 2010.10.25 (File size 5.346838 Mb) Full Text:

: Список основных команд TikZ (File size 0.061258 Mb) Full Text:

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