The LATEX Graphics Companion: Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting

✍ Scribed by Michel Goossens, Herbert Voss, Frank Mittelbach, Sebastian Rahtz, Denis Roegel

• Publisher: Lehmanns Media GmbH
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 975
• Edition: reprint of AW, 2007
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Figures
Color Plates
List of Tables
Preface
Why LaTeX, and why PostScript?
How this book is arranged
Typographic conventions
Using the examples
Find all those packages and programs
Acknowledgments
Feedback
Graphics with LaTeX
Graphics systems and typesetting
Drawing types
TeX's interfaces
Graphics languages
Choosing a package
Standard LaTeX Interfaces
Inclusion of graphics files
Manipulating graphical objects
Line graphics
MetaFont and MetaPost: TeX's Mates
The Meta language
Differences between MetaPost and Metafont
Running the Meta programs
Some basic MetaPost libraries
The metaobj package
TeX interface: getting the best of both worlds
From MetaPost and to MetaPost
The future of MetaPost
MetaPost Applications
A drawing toolkit
Representing data with graphs
Diagrams
Geometry
Science and engineering applications
3-D extensions
Harnessing PostScript inside LaTeX: PSTricks
The components of PSTricks
Setting keywords,lengths, and coordinates
The pspicture environment
The coordinate system
Grids
Lines and polygons
Curcles, ellipses, and curves
Dots and symbols
Filling areas
Arrows
Labels
Boxes
User Styles and objects
Coordinates
The PSTricks core
The main PSTricks Packages
pst-plot — Plotting functions and data
pst-node — Nodes and connections
pst-tree — Typesetting trees
pst-fill — Filling and tiling
psdt-3d — Shadows, tilting, and three-dimensional representations
pst-3dplot — 3-D parallel projections of functions and data
Short overview of other PSTricks packages
Summary of PSTricks commands and keywords
The XY-pic package
Introducing XY-pic
Basic constructs
Extensions
Features
Further examples
Applications in Science, Technology, and Medicine
Typographical rules for scientific texts
Typesetting chemical formulae
Alignment and topology plots in bioinformatics
Drawing Feynman diagrams
Typesetting timing diagrams
Electronics and optics circuits
Preparing Music Scores
Using TeX for scores — An overview
Using MusiXTeX
abc2mtex — Easy writing of tunes
Preprocessors for MusicXTeX
The PMX preprocessor
M-Tx — Music from TeXt
The music engraver LilyPond
TeXmuse — TeX and Metafont working together
Playing Games
Chess
Xiangqi — Chinese chess
Go
Backgammon
Card games
Crosswords in various forms
Sudokus
The World of Color
An introduction to color
Color with LaTeX - The color and xcolor packages
Coloring tables
Color slides with LaTeX — The beamer class
Appendixes
Producing PDF from Various Sources
dvipdfm and dvipdfmx
pst-pdf — From PostScript to PDF
Generating PDF from LaTeX
LaTeX Software and Users Group Information
Getting help
How to get those TeX files?
Using CTAN
Finding the documentation on your TeX system
Bibliography
A
B
C — F
G
H
I
J, K
L
M, N
O — R
S
T
V
W, Z
Index
General Index
Symbols
@, A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J — L
M
N
O
P
Q, R
S
T
U, V
W, X
Y, Z
Metafont and MetaPost
Symbols, A
B
C
D
E
F, G
H, I
J — L
M
N
O, P (no Q)
R, S
T
U
V — Z
PSTricks
Symbols
@, A
B
C
D
E
F
G — I
J — L
M, N
O, P
Q, R
S
T
U — X
Y, Z
XY-pic
Symbols
@ — D
E — K
M — R
S — Y (no Z)
People
H — Y
A — G
Color Plates
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
XIV
XV
XVI