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Strictly, the letters are tau-epsilon-chi. And, as Knuth puts it, "when you say it correctly to your computer, the terminal may become slightly moist". (Like the "ch" in "loch".) See, e.g., the currently-highest-rated answer at http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17502/what-is-the-cor... .
Of course, if you're already a TikZ pro then just stick with that.
To give you a taste:
http://www.marris.org/asymptote/animations/index.html
http://www.piprime.fr/developpeur/asymptote/surveys-asy/frac... (many more examples)
Quick side-question: I know metapost and tikz rather well and am searching for a JS library that does similar things using SVG, especially when it comes to path drawing. Example: draw a curved path from the center of item A to the center of item B, but cut off at the bounding box of B and put an arrow head there. In metapost, thats easy (after grokking the syntax): ndb2.c{right}..{curl0}dk.c cutafter BpathBox(dk); Mo…
Dan Lynch ported some of pstricks to js[1], which you might be interested in checking out. Don't know if you can do intersections and cuts though... [1] https://github.com/pyramation/LaTeX2HTML5/blob/master/lib/ps... demo here http://latex2html5.com/
I am not that attached to the syntax, just the possibilities and some of the vocabulary.
I remember when I first learned about Tikz. I sat down and read most of the manual in one sitting (this is NOT a great way to learn anything, in my opinion), and I used Tikz everywhere. I would make a powerpoint using LaTeX/beamer simply so I could make some cool animations. I am not quite so excited to use it everywhere nowadays :) The Tikz manual is very well written, and the author, Till Tantau, includes a section…
dfc@ronin:texmf-dist/doc/generic/pgf$ pdfinfo pgfmanual.pdf |grep Pages
Pages: 726Does anybody know when TikZ/PGF were first released?
2003-08-21 Till Tantau
Version 0.30:
- Created ChangeLog
- Added pgfshade.stySo can anyone discuss the benefits of doing something like this in Tex versus using a program like say Inkscape and using EPS? [Serious]
Please, could someone who can fix up titles correct the capitalization? Not "Tex" but "TeX". Strictly, the letters are tau-epsilon-chi. And, as Knuth puts it, "when you say it correctly to your computer, the terminal may become slightly moist". (Like the "ch" in "loch".) See, e.g., the currently-highest-rated answer at http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17502/what-is-the-cor... .
Fix is not the best term since it's not broken. You can't force someone to adopt your stylization.
Please, could someone who can fix up titles correct the capitalization? Not "Tex" but "TeX". Strictly, the letters are tau-epsilon-chi. And, as Knuth puts it, "when you say it correctly to your computer, the terminal may become slightly moist". (Like the "ch" in "loch".) See, e.g., the currently-highest-rated answer at http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17502/what-is-the-cor... .
I understand that LaTeX is a pre-internet piece of software, and thus it may not have been apparent that it's popularity would spread more through written than spoken word, but I still find this kind of thing pretentious (or at least a little silly).
If I named a popular piece of software "Kyei" after the Burmese word for "world", I feel like it would be kind of silly to get angry when english speakers didn't pronounce it "Chai" (The correct pronunciation).