Category LaTeX Cookbook examples (Stefan Kottwitz)
The periodic table is a huge chart that organizes all known chemical elements by their atomic number and other properties. It makes it easy to see their relationships by grouping similar ones together. This table is essential for chemists and… Continue Reading →
While a word cloud is a pretty picture made of words, it’s a tool that can visualize the importance of topics or keywords, or how often a word appears in a text. Bigger words indicate higher frequency. Word clouds can… Continue Reading →
We know for example informational or scientific posters seen at conferences or at walls in universities or institutes. They mostly have certain characteristics in common: They have a large size, such as A2, A1 or even A0. People may look… Continue Reading →
Functions with two arguments can be visualized in three-dimensional plots. Getting this on paper or into a PDF, is a bit more challenging. We need a projection, a view point, or angle, there’s a depth which means parts should be… Continue Reading →
A well-known classic field of mathematics is geometry. You may know Euclidean geometry from school, with constructions by compass and ruler. Math teachers may be very interested in drawing geometry constructions and explanations. Underlying constructions can help us with general… Continue Reading →
Using basic TikZ function it’s not too hard to create a line, add some ticks and date values and annotations. This example shows another colorful predesigned way using the timeline library. Until the timelime library becomes official part of TikZ… Continue Reading →
A mind map visualizes information or ideas. Usually, there’s a main concept in the center and major concepts branching outward from it. Smaller ideas start from the major concepts. So, a mind map can look like a spider web. Here,… Continue Reading →
A flowchart showing how we may choose a math environment. It shows using styles, placing nodes in a matrix, and drawing arrows using loops. Full explanation in Chapter 9, Creating Graphics: Constructing a flowchart. Edit and compile if you like:… Continue Reading →
A horizontal tree, growing to the right. I created a basic style for tree nodes, and derived styles for specific kinds of nodes. Full explanation in Chapter 9, Creating Graphics: Growing a tree. Edit and compile if you like: %… Continue Reading →
A bar chart can be used for comparing values. Here we create a horizontal bar chart. The pgfplots package provides an easy way. In this example, I reduced axis data to focus on the values. So I do not show… Continue Reading →
A simple tree with a style for all nodes. A tree is a very common type of hierarchical graph. Tree nodes have children. These are connected by edges and are usually displayed in rows when growing down or in columns… Continue Reading →
A flowchart showing a common TeX workflow, using the smartdiagram package. Full explanation in Chapter 9, Creating Graphics: Building smart diagrams Edit and compile if you like: % A flowchart of a TeX workflow % Author: Stefan Kottwitz % https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/latex-cookbook… Continue Reading →