xblahoud / tikzmagic

A Jupyter extension for compiling and displaying images described by the TikZ language.

tikzmagic

A Jupyter extension for compiling and displaying images described by the TikZ language. Fork of github.com/robjstan/tikzmagic.

Requirements

• IPython/Jupyter
• LaTeX distribution in your path
• ImageMagick
• Wand library

Installation

pip install git+git://github.com/xblahoud/tikzmagic.git

You might require to change priviliges to convert PDF for ImageMagick

Usage

In an iPython notebook cell: import tikzmagic or %load_ext tikzmagic. You can also call function tikmagic.tikz()

Optional arguments

• -p or --latex_packages
• -x or --latex_preamble
• -l or --tikz_libraries
• -i or --input_file
• -s or --scale, default=1 (corresponding to 300dpi)
• -b or --border, default=4
• --engine, path to LaTeX engine to run, default xelatex
• --log prints engines log on latex error

Example

Example iPython notebook