ea42gh / itikz

Cell and line magic for PGF/TikZ-to-SVG rendering in Jupyter notebooks

itikz

Latex with Tikz to SVG conversion. Includes Cell magic for rendering in Jupyter

• Free software: MIT license

Basic Usage

The installation information below will install the version provided by the original author. To use the upgraded version here, download it, and copy the itikz subdirectory into a directory in your PYTHONPATH.

Prerequisites:

• a working TeX installation, e.g., https://tug.org/texlive/windows.html
• a recent version of François Pantigny's nicematrix package https://ctan.org/pkg/nicematrix (a current tex installation works)
• inkscape (ensure inkscape is on the path)
• pdf2svg (https://github.com/jalios/pdf2svg-windows enure the selected directory is on the path)

Install itikz with python setup.py install

To see the directories in your pythonpath, execute the following in python:

import sys
for p in sys.path:
    print( p )

To install the original version instead, run:

pip install itikz

Load it:

%load_ext itikz

Use it:

%%itikz --file-prefix implicit-demo- --template pic
\draw[help lines] grid (5, 5);
\draw[fill=magenta!10] (1, 1) rectangle (2, 2);
\draw[fill=magenta!10] (2, 1) rectangle (3, 2);
\draw[fill=magenta!10] (3, 1) rectangle (4, 2);
\draw[fill=magenta!10] (3, 2) rectangle (4, 3);
\draw[fill=magenta!10] (2, 3) rectangle (3, 4);

Getting Started Guide

Getting Started Notebook

Youtube Video Introducing the nicematrix package

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrWpv7XlAdk

API

Python:

..code:: build_commands, svg_from_tex, fetch_or_compile_svg

Can be invoked from Julia using PyCall, tested in jupyter-lab and Pluto.jl