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Unlocking LaTeX Graphics

A Concise Guide to TikZ/PGF and PGFPLOTS

Whether you're a mathematician, engineer, scientist or any other LaTeX user needing to embed complex mathematical diagrams or data visualizations in your documents, TikZ and PGFPLOTS are the essential tools you'll need to natively compile and render these graphics. But with hundreds of commands, options and styles available for use, getting up and running quickly can be daunting.Unlocking LaTeX Graphics boils down 1,800 pages of documentation to focus on the 10% of TikZ/PGF and PGFPLOTS commands that users need 90% of the time.

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Unlocking LaTeX Graphics: A Concise Guide to TikZ/PGF and PGFPLOTS - Front Cover

Features

What's in the Book?

Examples

Dozens of examples, from simple to complex, provide concrete visualizations of the capabilities of these libraries, and can serve as the starting point of your own graphics or plots. All examples are available for use on Overleaf and GitHub.

Tips & Call-outs

Prevent time-consuming errors and experimentation by heeding best practices and avoiding common mistakes.

References

Quickly find the right option name or value you need from one of the comprehensive, color-coded reference sheets arranged by topic. that you'll come back to even once you're a

From a Reader...

"For me, this is the perfect level of conciseness. It builds things up step by step, but quickly enough so that it does not feel like I have to plow through a lot of uninteresting details. The examples are very nice and visually clear. I'm an inpatient reader, and I can jump around in the book, still getting an idea where I need to look if I wanted to know more about a particular topic."

- Prof. Andreas Waechter, Northwestern University


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Open Source Example Code

The source code for all examples from the book is open source and available on Overleaf and GitHub. Download and play with the samples to get hands-on experience or use them as a starting point for your own graphics.


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About the Author

Dr. Tamara G. Kolda

Dr. Kolda has authored dozens of papers in her field of Computational Mathematics and has been using TikZ/PGF and PGFPLOTS for over 15 years. This book is derived from the notes, learnings, and scars she's amassed over her years producing complex graphics in LaTeX.


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