After a long time, a new version of pgf is out as made out in the announcement from CTAN. Looks like they've got some massive changes in it. It's already in the MiKTeX distribution, so you just need to update it.
Some of the things that I found interesting are
- A Syntax for Graphs: There is now a new simple syntax for specifying
graphs, borrowed from the GraphViz program. It makes it easy
to specify graphs and especially trees in a convenient manner.
- Graph Drawing Algorithms: TikZ now comes with a large and powerful
system for computing the positions of nodes of graphs automatically
(you need LuaTeX for this, though).
- Data Visualization: There is now an alternative to pgfplots as part
of the standard TikZ installation for creating plots. While pgfplots
is still the more mature system, the new data visualization system
comes with some interesting new ideas.
- Driver Support: Support for all mayor backend drivers has been
improved. A new, cool thing is the support for dvisvgm, which
allows you to create powerful SVG graphics directly from TeX,
including the text.
Some of the things that I found interesting are
- A Syntax for Graphs: There is now a new simple syntax for specifying
graphs, borrowed from the GraphViz program. It makes it easy
to specify graphs and especially trees in a convenient manner.
- Graph Drawing Algorithms: TikZ now comes with a large and powerful
system for computing the positions of nodes of graphs automatically
(you need LuaTeX for this, though).
- Data Visualization: There is now an alternative to pgfplots as part
of the standard TikZ installation for creating plots. While pgfplots
is still the more mature system, the new data visualization system
comes with some interesting new ideas.
- Driver Support: Support for all mayor backend drivers has been
improved. A new, cool thing is the support for dvisvgm, which
allows you to create powerful SVG graphics directly from TeX,
including the text.
2 comments:
Nice to know.
Any idea of how it could worg in emacs org-mode ? In an org-babel block may-be ?
same as a Latex code block in org-mode? It's just a package within LaTeX, so should work org latex headers
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