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Re:A LaTeX Beginner's Guide for the Age of AI on Friday March 27, 2026 @09:56AM (#47542715)
The 2026 third edition of the LaTeX Beginner’s Guide now includes a chapter on AI-assisted coding, writing, and formatting. Is AI making LaTeX and TikZ usable again for occasional users?
Re:Drawing our Linux mascot TuX in TeX with TikZ on Sunday April 29, 2012 @10:55AM (#3906107)
It's about the easy SVG conversion and getting TikZ as result, in perfect quality. It's not that TikZ made it. But now we can use TikZ on it, use the capabilities we can see in http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/ , to annotate (SVG) graphics, to combine with LaTeX labels and notation. Tux was it for fun. It could have been an arbitrary technical drawing instead. It's about drawing or receiving SVG with a graphic software program, and re-using it natively within TeX.

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