Re: pgf/TikZ terminal for (La)TeX

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Sunday 10 June 2007 10:43, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 
> A slight disadvantage is that - yes, you need at least one additional
> TeX package (TikZ) that doesn't come by default on any linux system
> except Debian

I seem to have 
   /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/pgf/tikz.sty

via tetex-latex-3.0-18.1mdv2007.0
on Mandriva 2007.1

Do I need something more than this?


> The code is really preliminary, but it works (lacks color, proper font
> switching, some fancy features - but all that is much easier to add
> than to "standard LaTeX" terminal). If anyone on the list is
> interested in preliminary testing (I will upload it to patches, but
> it's not ready yet for public) and is able to compile the following

I'm always interested, but also increasingly short of time.

Could you sketch out how you would use this to create files for pdflatex?
Would it be similar to using epslatex, in that the output is one pdf file
and one TeX file?

	Ethan


> Hello World on the system:
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{tikz}
> \begin{document}
> \begin{tikzpicture}
> \draw (1,0)--(5,2);
> \end{tikzpicture}
> \end{document}
> 
> I can send him/her the code.
> 
> Mojca

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Ethan A Merritt