CTAN Update: Version 1.18 of pgf/TikZ

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 Till Tantau submitted version 1.18of his PGF/TikZ package. Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf License: Mixed LPPL/GPL/FDL PGF is a macro package for creating graphics. It is platform- and format-independent and works together with the most important TeX backend drivers, including pdftex and dvips. It comes with a user-friedly syntax layer called TikZ. Its usage is similar to pstricks and the standard picture environment. Unlike pstricks, it can produce either PostScript or PDF output, and works with plain (pdf-)TeX, (pdf-)LaTeX, and ConTeXt. Release notes: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This new version of pgf/TikZ contains new features and fixes a number of bugs. A notable new feature is the new math library due to Mark Wibrow, which allows you to use fancy mathematical expressions directly inside TikZ. This release also includes a matrix library, which simplifies alignments. There are now commands that allow you to extract pictures into separate files more asily. Some users will also enjoy the new calendar support. Finallly, if you have always been looking for an easy way to create a triangular shape, have a look at Mark's regular polygon shape. Although this version should already be perfectly usable and reasonably bug-free, it is still a beta-version. Release 1.20 will be the next stable version. I will release it within a few weeks, once I got feedback on this version. Change log: Version 1.18: - Added regular polygon and start shapes (by Mark Wibrow). - Added graphic externalization commands. - Added barycentric coordinate system. - Added direct TikZ plotting of function based on math engine. - Added math documentation into main documentation. - Added Mark Wibrow's math library. - Added calendar support. - Added matrix stuff. - Added automatic driver selection for xetex. - Added "growth parent anchor" option. - Fixed superfluous spaces in quick math parse code - Fixed superfluous \newboxes in math and image code - Fixed mth parser to recognize \wd\mybox. - Fixed wrong \pgfmathsetrandomseed - Fixed wrong \pgfmathradians@ - Fixed problems with long mantissa and plain tex math code. - Fixed things so that \setlength works in pictures, once more. - Fixed selectfont problem in pdfsys-dvipdfm.def - Fixed problem with lost lastx/lasty in foreach in TikZ. - Fixed snake+rectangle+transform problem. - Fixed rectangle+rounded corner problem. - Fixed postscrip eofill1 problem. - Fixed amsmath/pgf clash because of wrong definition of \: - Fixed size of hyperlinks inside nodes. - Fixed ConTeXt problem in pgfbaseplot. - Fixed .aux problems in plain and ConTeXt mode. Using .pgf as extension now. _______________________________________________ This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=pgf (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf