I think mistake people make is they assume what's OK-enough for them in a GUI would not make me have nightmares cos I'm weird and damaged.
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So the time I believe you genuinely and correctly save when you use a GUI I spend in cold sweats and panics because I it to be in code.
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For some people like me it's impossible to use a GUI and be happy, I think. I have no idea how small a minority I'm in but TikZ is so great.
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Tikz is one step above genius. You are minority and you are mad, but in a positive way. I am madder - writing a text based GUI for tikz!
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Why does tikz need a gui?

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I meant CLI for Tikz: circle scale 120 left up colour red dup select all So each quietly runs tikz and shows pdf hard with 140 chars!
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Ah, I see. Is this too avoid loading up an editor and typing all the other latex stuff?
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yes. Hide all tex and LaTeX and tikz code but keep power and advantages of tikz. like to see what you are doing if u can share
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I'd never heard of TikZ before; it looks awesome! I always make SVG web icons in a text editor & can't stand the GUI options like Inkscape.
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I use PIL for THAT more than tikz. Tikz is more appropriate for presentations and journal articles, but you may of course use it to write to
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SVG with transparent background? Maybe? Never tried it. PDF with white background isn't appropriate for web that's for sure.
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Didn't meant to capitalise that. My phone wants to shout apparently.

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Tikz is a bit mad though. I used to like metapost more. Not as fancy, but for 2D certainly good enough.
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You mean too complex?
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Not well-documented, things break down in upgrades, strange mix of packages meant to do the same...
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Sounds like a lot of LaTeX. Although I take your point it's worse for tikz.
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Nope, not wrong. It’s awesome.
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TikZ not only is an acronym in German, but contains a semantically important italic in the acronym and name… I like this already…
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CLI is the new GUI, if notebooks like Jupyter are any indication
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