Hello to everybody,
i'm a new latex user. I'm new in this latex forum.
I'm a math italian teacher. I bought the Stefan good book in august last year.
I'm now exploring the math tikz library (\usetikzlibrary{math}). I found a good for me
documentation of the calc library in the book. Unfortunately there is no similar doc of the
math library in the book. In internet (tikz.dev etc..) i did not find a simple doc about this
library. Is there someone that can help me?
Thank you.
GuidoU
Math & Science ⇒ math tikz library
Re: math tikz library
Hello Haiopaio,
where may i post my question? Thank you in advance.
where may i post my question? Thank you in advance.
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Stefan Kottwitz
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Re: math tikz library
Hello Guido,
welcome to the forum!
Indeed, the calc library is explained, as this is really important and useful with coordinates and node positioning and so a lot of fundamental things. The math library introduces a very different syntax and is not really necessary for coordinate calculation, positioning etc. I also see it rarely used. So, I did not work with this library in the book, as I did not thing that it would often be applied in common drawings. What do you think? I could add it to the next edition of the book with examples, I'm just not yet convinced that many readers may want to use it.
While it's described here in the online reference, there's also an interesting article: Why I like TikZ’s Math Library.
While it's nice to have the math library available, I use Lua for more complex calculations and function definitions, together with TikZ and pgfplots, here are some of my pictures: pgfplots.net/tag/luatex.
More ideas are highly welcome, as I think I could make an extended second edition of the book. Also, it would be great if you would rate the book on Amazon with a short review, that helps users to find it (and to convince the publisher, to make a new edition). It's published in Japanese now too (TikZ.jp).
Thanks!
Stefan
welcome to the forum!
Indeed, the calc library is explained, as this is really important and useful with coordinates and node positioning and so a lot of fundamental things. The math library introduces a very different syntax and is not really necessary for coordinate calculation, positioning etc. I also see it rarely used. So, I did not work with this library in the book, as I did not thing that it would often be applied in common drawings. What do you think? I could add it to the next edition of the book with examples, I'm just not yet convinced that many readers may want to use it.
While it's described here in the online reference, there's also an interesting article: Why I like TikZ’s Math Library.
While it's nice to have the math library available, I use Lua for more complex calculations and function definitions, together with TikZ and pgfplots, here are some of my pictures: pgfplots.net/tag/luatex.
More ideas are highly welcome, as I think I could make an extended second edition of the book. Also, it would be great if you would rate the book on Amazon with a short review, that helps users to find it (and to convince the publisher, to make a new edition). It's published in Japanese now too (TikZ.jp).
Thanks!
Stefan
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