Wednesday, April 20, 2016

TikZ (PGF) Packages


I haven't found an up-to-date list of packages that use/support the wonderful PGF/TikZ library, so I went through the latex packages in the latest TexLive and found these.  It's not exhaustive but it's better than nothing.  I excluded some libraries that use pgf/tikz under the covers (e.g. chemmacros).

PGF/TikZ

  • aobs-tikz  -  overlayed pictures in beamer
  • bloques -  control blocks
  • blox - block diagrams
  • bondgraphs - 
  • braids - braid diagrams
  • celtic - celtic-style knots
  • circuitikz - electrical and electronic networks.  NB: tikz 3.0.1a has builtin support for some circuit libraries that was inspired by this library.
  • csvsimple - uses key-value syntax from pgfkeys
  • diadia - diabetes diary
  • endiagram - potential energy curve diagrams
  • forest - linguistic trees
  • hf-tikz  -  highlight formulas
  • hobby - a tikzlibrary implementing John Hobby's algorithm for cubic bezierz curves
  • makeshape - method of creating custom shapes in PGF
  • mframed  - Framed environments that can split at page boundaries
  • ocgx - Optional Content Group support (layers)
  • pgf-blur - blurred shadows
  • pgf-soroban
  • pgf-umlcd
  • pgf-umlsd
  • pgfgantt
  • pgfkeyx
  • pgfopts
  • pgfornament
  • pgfplots
  • prooftrees  -  based on forest
  • sa-tikz "a library to draw switching architectures"
  • spath3
  • tikz-3dplot
  • tikz-cd  -  commutative diagrams
  • tikz-dependency - dependency diagrams for linguistics
  • tikz-dimline  -  technical dimension lines (e.g. showing a widget is 4cm wide, etc)
  • tikz-feynman
  • tikz-inet  -  interaction nets
  • tikz-opm  -  Object Process Methodology diagrams
  • tikz-plattice  -  particle accelerator lattices
  • tizk-qtree -  2012.  NB: tikz 3.0.1a (and maybe earlier) has extensive built-in support for trees
  • tikz-timing - timing diagrams
  • tikzinclude - importing images
  • tikzmark  -  mark a point in a page for further use
  • tikzorbital - molecular diagrams
  • tizkpagenodes - extending current page nodes
  • tikzpfeile  -  arrows
  • tikzposter - generate scientific posters
  • tikzscale - absolute resizing
  • tikzsymbols - great collection of symbols that started with cookbook symbols and then grew
  • tkz-orm - Object-Role Model drawing.  NB: *not* part of the TKZ collection.
  • visualtikz - excellent visual documentation for tikz: extensive collection of simple examples showing syntax and result

The Altermundus TKZ Collection


This collection of PGF/TikZ libraries by the prolific Alain Matthes is so awesome it deserves its own section.  Some of the documentation is in French only.  (Note the spellings, tkz v. tikz)
  • alterqcm  -  two-column multiple choice questions  (Fr)
  • tizkrput - macro for placing stuff
  • tkz-base
  • tkz-berge - graphs (En)
  • tkz-euclide - an amazing library for doing good old fashioned geometry.   The doc is in French but if you know TikZ you can probably figure it out; if not, its a very good reason to learn French.
  • tkz-fct - 2d function plotting
  • tkz-graph  - more graphs (Fr)
  • tkz-linknodes - links between lines of an environment (En)
  • tkz-kiviat
  • tkz-tab  -  very fancy table support (Fr)
  • tkz-tukey

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