TikZ/PGF and PGFPlots are huge packages and a handy quick reference manual for looking up options and syntax is nice to have. The manual is far from complete but still useful. Therefore, I decided to publish it so that others can benefit.
The manual is available in several formats. Either choose A4 paper size or letter paper size. The ‘booklet’ version can be printed two-sided (long edge), folded in half lengthwise, and stapled or sewed along the spine. The ‘serial’ version can be used to print two logical pages side by side on one physical page. The untagged version is for screen display.
Feel free to extend the manual to suite your needs. I will happily integrate your contributions if you decide to share it.
The Moebius strip image on the front-cover is a modified version of the example found on PGFPlots.net.
The layout of the manual is inspired by the Common Lisp Quick Reference.
Prerequisites: A TeX Live installation with pdflatex(1) and pdfjam(1). And GNU Make, Bash, Ghostscript, pdfinfo(1), sed(1) with ‘-E’ option, and the standard POSIX commands and utilities.
The scripts in the ‘bin’ subdirectory should be in your program search path.
Create all external images in the ‘tikz’ folder:
$ make -C tikz pdf
Now you can build the manual:
$ make all
Edit a new section in file ‘qr-galley.tex’. Change the first line in ‘qr.tex’ from
\newif\ifgalley\galleyfalse
to
\newif\ifgalley\galleytrue
Then build as usual.
Update the version number in ‘qr-back-cover.tex’.