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I'm making a calendar. The calendar will be for TUG, 2015. Last year I also made a calendar but because of time constraints most examples were graphics. Since this is a lot of work, I need your help. ...

I would like to use TikZ for drawing a christmas tree. Here's a start, I used the lindenmayersystems library for drawing a tree: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{...

We have questions about Christmas trees and Hearts for Valentines but we have no questions that specialize in Halloween or Dia de los Muertos art. Here it goes: Using TikZ or PSTricks or any other of ...

I want to include a tikzpicture (mindmap) in beamer and I want the children to appear one after the other. So I use \visible but it don't works -- also not with \pause command. I get errors regarding ...

I've volunteered to use some of my Cthulhu reputation to sponsor a Christmas/holiday contest. You all have aced previous holiday questions, so I'm going to give you a bit more of a challenge: Draw me ...

I was wondering if anyone had managed exporting .svg files to TikZ code. I do not mean include an .svg file into a latex document, but rather to obtain the code of an image so you can then edit it ...

I stumbled upon an example, which needed to be compiled with the additional option --shell-escape. Using this option it worked just fine, but I'm curious: Why or when is this option needed and what ...

Here's a fun challenge. Try to come up with (and code) techniques through which (La)TeX can help authors to incorporate acrostics in their writing. The definition from Wikipedia: An acrostic is a ...

This question led to a new package: aobs-tikz Is it possible to alter the code in the following MWE to the effect that “ABCD” is visible on both slides but only on the second it has the red node as ...

Is there the possiblity to make a color gradient in the rectangular box in the following example from the bottom left to the top right corner (both in linear or radial shape)? \documentclass{article} ...

I was trying to get the symbol of the old Roman emblem (SPQR). I'm actually interested in the laurel leaves, and not so much in the banner per se. What I would like to have is something like this (...

Now, I have the following code producing the output as shown: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{pgfornament} \usetikzlibrary{calc} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}[every ...

I am looking for materials for PSTricks learning in similar vein to Materials for learning TikZ I am always interested to learn PSTricks through our famous Just for fun PSTricks User animated ...

I am trying to create some sort of tabbing for a template am designing. I want the title page to have the colors of the chapters and then all of the pages within a chapter to have a marking as shown ...

I want create a triangle with the text inside, I'm able to the write the text but how I can create the triangle? My code for the text is \documentclass{article} \usepackage[english]{babel} \...

I'd love to typeset a document where the inner margin follows a sinuous path. For example, like the one below (done in Scribus). I tried wrapping the text around a curvy image set at the appropriate ...

I would like to use the Photo Clipper shape of kiss my armpit that they provided as an answer to Can we make a love heart with LaTeX?. However, I would like to have the background around the heart in ...

I need to draw masks (with various shapes) over an image. For example, I made a circle mask like this: \documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \definecolor{background}{HTML}{2C414C} ...

After a few years of trial, error, and usenet messages, I know just about all the LaTeX I really need. And my needs are modest. Most of my documents use the same template (tufte-latex), with the same ...

I have done a lot of plotting in 2D using pgfplots but I am new to the 3D portion. I am attempting to illustrate a solid of revolution. For example, I have the area under the curve y = x^2 + 1 on the ...

I try to reproduce the answer Photo Clipper of kiss my armpit to the question Photo Clipper but it is not succeeding. As I do not have any clue what might be the problem I would like to know if there ...