New on CTAN: tikz-network

[CTAN Announcements]

Jürgen Hackl submitted the

                tikz-network

package.

Version number: 1.0
License type: gpl3+

Summary description: Draw networks with TikZ

Announcement text:
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In recent years, complex network theory becomes more and more popular 
within the scientific community. Besides a solid mathematical base on 
which these theories are built on, a visual representation of the networks 
allow communicating complex relationships to a broad audience.

Nowadays, a variety of great visualization tools are available, which 
helps to structure, filter, manipulate and of course to visualize the 
networks. However, they come with some limitations, including the need for 
specific software tools, difficulties to embed the outputs properly in a 
LaTeX file (e.g. font type, font size, additional equations and math 
symbols needed,...) and challenges in the post-processing of the graphs, 
without rerunning the software tools again.

In order to overcome this issues, the package **tikz-network*** was 
created. Since LaTeX is a standard for scientific publications and widely 
used, there is a high chance that users are already familiar with the 
syntax and the structure of this language. Beside LaTeX, no other software 
tool is needed. The commands of **tikz-network** are kept simple but allow 
a high control over the produced output. Post-processing of the network 
(e.g. adding drawings, images, texts, equations,...) can be done easily, 
due to the compatibility with PGF/TikZ (Tantau 2015). Also, the embedding 
of the network visualization into the LaTeX-environment enables the use of 
the fonts, font sizes, mathematical symbols, hyperlinks, references,..., 
as used in the document. Additional features are the three-dimensional 
visualization of (multilayer) networks, and the compatible with other 
layout and visualization tools (e.g. igraph, netwrokx, QGIS, ...).


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The package's Catalogue entry can be viewed at
   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/tikz-network

The package's files themselves can be inspected at
   http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/tikz-network

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   Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Erik Braun

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