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Eastern Illinois University

Andrew Mertz

2007

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Graphics With Pgf And Tikz, Andrew Mertz, William Slough Jan 2007

Graphics With Pgf And Tikz, Andrew Mertz, William Slough

Andrew Mertz

Beautiful and expressive documents often require beautiful and expressive graphics. PGF and its front-end TikZ walk a fine line between power, portability and usability, giving a TEX-like approach to graphics. While PGF and TikZ are extensively documented, first-time users may prefer learning about these packages using a collection of graduated examples. The examples presented here cover a wide spectrum of use and provide a starting point for exploration.


Graphics With Tikz, Andrew Mertz, William Slough Jan 2007

Graphics With Tikz, Andrew Mertz, William Slough

Andrew Mertz

Beautiful and expressive documents often require beautiful and expressive graphics. PGF and its front-end TikZ walk a thin line between power, portability and usability, giving a TEX-like approach to graphics. While PGF and TikZ are extensively documented, first-time users may prefer learning about these packages using a collection of graduated examples. The examples presented here cover a wide spectrum of use and provide a starting point for exploration.


Programming With Perltex, Andrew Mertz, William Slough Jan 2007

Programming With Perltex, Andrew Mertz, William Slough

Andrew Mertz

PerlTEX couples two well-known worlds—the Perl programming language and the LATEX typesetting system. The resulting system provides users with a way to augment LATEX macros with Perl code, thereby adding programming capabilities to LATEX that would otherwise be difficult to express. In this paper, we illus- trate the use of PerlTEX with a variety of examples and explain the associated Perl code. Although Perl may perhaps be best known for its string manipula- tion capabilities, we demonstrate how PerlTEX indirectly provides support for “programming” graphics through the use of additional packages such as TikZ.