Till Tantau submitted an update to the
pgf / TikZ
package.
Version number: 3.0.0
License type: Dual: LPPL and alternatively GPL/GFDL
Summary description: A graphics language for TeX
Announcement text:
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I am happy to announce version 3.0.0 of TikZ/pgf. After several years
of development work in the background, a new version is finally ready.
With the big jump in the version number from 2.10 to 3.0.0 a lot of
new stuff has been added to TikZ (since the last version, over a
thousand lines have been added to the change log...). However, care
was taken to make sure that in normal circumstances all old code will
still produce the exact same results as it used to.
It is impossible to list all the changes and improvements, so let me
just point out some hilights:
- Arrow Tips: You can now configure the appearance of arrow
tip to death and do so on the fly. Arbitrary arrow tips will now
even bend along curves since TikZ can now do curvilinear
transformations on a very low level.
- Syntax Improvements: A lot of small things have been added and
improved in the syntax. For instance, nodes can be in front of
paths, but now also behind them. There is the new notion of a small
picture called a pic, which is something of a mixture of a node
and a picture.
- A Syntax for Graphs: There is now a new simple syntax for specifying
graphs, borrowed from the GraphViz program. It makes it easy
to specify graphs and especially trees in a convenient manner.
- Graph Drawing Algorithms: TikZ now comes with a large and powerful
system for computing the positions of nodes of graphs automatically
(you need LuaTeX for this, though).
- Data Visualization: There is now an alternative to pgfplots as part
of the standard TikZ installation for creating plots. While pgfplots
is still the more mature system, the new data visualization system
comes with some interesting new ideas.
- Driver Support: Support for all mayor backend drivers has been
improved. A new, cool thing is the support for dvisvgm, which
allows you to create powerful SVG graphics directly from TeX,
including the text.
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This package is located at
http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/base/
More information is at
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pgf
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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