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 Articles about graphics, figures and tables in LaTeX documents.
 Article Title Author TikZ Library for Structural Analysis Updated: 10 Mar 2013 At university it is always a very time consuming work to create new assignments, and tests; especially when those tasks include drawing graphics. In the field of structural engineering those small structures are a key part for teaching. For this reason I developed, in cooperation with the Institute for Structural Analysis at the Graz University of Technology, a TikZ library for Structural Analysis. Jürgen Hackl 4.93 Pic for expressive LaTeX diagrams Updated: 21 Jun 2012 In my graduate work, I draw a lot of system diagrams which basically involves drawing a bunch of shapes with arrows. When typesetting my figures, I like using the Pic preprocessor because of its expressiveness. In the following post I will show how to use it. Allan Espinosa 4.00 Drawing with the tikz-3dplot Package Updated: 21 Jun 2012 When I started working on my thesis dissertation using LaTeX, I discovered the TikZ package for drawing vector-based figures. I needed a way to easily draw three-dimensional figures, and so I put together a few handy tools in the tikz-3dplot package. This package builds on TikZ, providing an easy way to rotate the perspective when drawing three-dimensional shapes using basic shapes in a tikzpicture environment. Let's explore some examples of what tikz-3dplot can do. Jeff Hein 4.83 Overcoming some flaws with graphics created using matlab2tikz Updated: 20 Jun 2012 Matlab is a widely used numerical computation environment. It is easy to make plots in Matlab, which can be exported to vector format (PDF/EPS) for implementation in LaTeX. The problem is that the default Matlab plots do not fit very well in the style of LaTeX, due to the different font and font size of the text in the Matlab plots. My favorite way of creating Matlab figures with LaTeX fonts is by making use of the matlab2tikz script. On my website, I've already described how to use this. In general this method works great, although some flaws exist. In this post, I'll list the most frequent problems I encounter with matlab2tikz. I'll also describe how I solve these problems. Do not expect superefficient routines, I'll only give the commands that are not exported to TikZ when converting a Matlab plot with matlab2tikz. Frits Wenneker 4.71 Semi-automatic plotting using pgfplots Updated: 20 Jun 2012 Producing data plots is an important part of doing research work. Making good looking plots is not easy, and getting them right as well is a real challenge. Perhaps the best way of producing plots, whether for use with LaTeX or otherwise, is to use the pgfplots package. For a general overview of using pgfplots effectively, see my TUGBoat article. Joseph Wright 4.90 Tufte-style Bar Charts with pgfplots Updated: 03 Jul 2012 What Donald Knuth is to computer programming, Edward Tufte is to data visualisation. The terms chart junk and data-to-ink ratio were coined by him, and his book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is widely regarded as one of the main reference works for the principles behind the creation of proper graphs and charts. There are many striking examples of efficient, informative, and just plain beautiful data visualisation techniques in Tufte's books, but little help in terms of the technicalities of implementing the approaches. Tufte himself uses graphics software like Adobe Illustrator for creating his graphs. While this undoubtedly allows very fine control over the appearance of the graphs, it takes a lot of time and is all but impossible to automate. In a setting where the production of data visualisations is only one of many tasks, like when writing scientific articles or business reports, hand-crafting graphs is not a feasible option. Jürnjakob Dugge 5.00 Why should I be using TeX for graphics? Updated: 19 Jun 2012 By the time you read this the revolution that Donald Knuth has caused in typesetting by creating TeX has made all of our lives so much easier. And I believe we are not enough aware of it. Producing high-quality typesetting and beautiful typography, including mathematics, tables of contents, glossaries, ... It is all possible with a few backslashes and curly brackets. Over the last years a similar breakthrough has been occurring in the creation of graphics. This is no longer the territory of either big software suites or obscure programs. The current open-source software related to TeX has matured greatly and is now capable of what was previously only within reach of the happy few with specific knowledge and tools. This article is about how I have been experiencing the aforementioned breakthrough, hoping to convince you of trying some of the currently available tools yourself. Pieter Belmans 4.82 Efficient Seamless Tiled Backgrounds Updated: 18 Jun 2012 I’m fairly sure everyone has, at least on one occassion, toyed with the idea of using tiled patterns as the background on a Beamer presentation or a report. (Whether this is good taste is another issue.) In this article, we will speak about an efficient technique for creating tiling backgrounds based on few patterns but resulting in a visual effect of a non-repeating pattern. Lim Lian Tze 4.53 Plane affine constructions and the TikZ calc library Updated: 20 Jun 2012 The TikZ calc library enables you to build elaborate geometrical figures. More precisely, this library produces objets, mainly points, from primitive ones. Primitives objects are to be defined by their coordinates (cartesians or polar) but a wise rule is to use as few computations on the coordinates as possible. Here comes the calc library and we propose on this page to describe some simple applications of this powerful tool. We will limit ourselves to affine constructions and to figures containing essentially points and lines. Hugues Vermeiren 4.89 Stemma with TikZ Updated: 07 Apr 2012 This article is an adapted translation of three French articles. I spoke several times about the TikZ package, which makes creating vector drawings in LaTeX possible. I used it some time ago for creating a stemma of texts that I study, to visualize their mutual relationships. Now I explain how I made such a stemma with TikZ. Maïeul Rouquette 4.75
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 Articles about LaTeX's math and science related features (e.g. formulas, graphs, ...).
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LaTeX and Chemistry - Drawing Reaction Schemes
Updated: 19 Jun 2012

The start

Let's see, what would I be talking about that's related to graphics? Well – almost everything I do, TeXnically speaking, is somehow related to chemistry. And in chemistry you have all kinds of graphics: potential energy curves, Haegg-diagrams, molecular orbital diagrams and of course all the sceletal formulas and reaction schemes common in (not only) organic chemistry.

The standard diagrams are not too complicated but are maybe worth an article in my blog. Molecular orbital diagrams are easily done with the package »MOdiagram«. So what's left? Sceletal formulas? They're easy if you glanced in the documentation of »ChemFig«. Well – most of them, anyway.

What about reaction schemes? Ever created one with LaTeX? No? Then it's time! And »ChemFig« has just the tools for this.

Clemens Niederberger 4.90
Formatting LaTeX Articles for Biology Journals
Updated: 07 Apr 2012
Compared to other fields, one may have additional hassles submitting a LaTeX article to a journal in the field of biology. Not only the journal may not have a template or accept LaTeX submissions, they may also ask for a very specific text layout. Here, I will explain how to put your article to meet some of these requirements based on my recent experience on submissions to the Journal of Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics.
Cengiz Gunay 3.93
Defining operators like sin, log etc
Updated: 30 Jan 2009

As we know, LaTeX has many commands to typeset operators, which are traditionally typeset using upright font—for example, sin, log etc. Obviously, the catalog of LaTeX's operators is far from complete, especially because new ones are being constantly introduced. The question arises: what to do when we need a custom operator?

MarcinBorkowski 3.33
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