TikZiT VS Ipe

TikZiT Reviews

Ipe Reviews

1. Shibaji Banerjee    

   Teaching and Research | over 2 years ago
   IPE has close LaTeX integration

   I find IPE to be a life-savior when it comes to generating physics illustrations which come with their share of math toppings. The editor has nice utilities for latching on to the boundaries, intersection, center etc of geometric figures. The spline tool is the best I have seen anywhere. Layers are handled with grace. LaTeX is rendered instantly. It is very easy to produce a multipage document. What more can one possibly want?

   🏁 Competitors: Airtable, PGF and TikZ, LaTeXDraw

   👍 Pros:    Produces multipage documents|Possible to include latex style files and includes|Live rendering of latex blocks, not just math|Very easy to add stepwise revelations|Comes with a presenter that understands notes|Produced pdf can be easily included in latex documents|Completely free and open source

   👎 Cons:    May be difficult to figure some things right out of the box

TikZiT mentions (12)

• Tools to Draw Diagrams programmatically

  Take a look at TikZiT, which is a FOSS GUI for creating tikz files and also turning them into image files. I found it really useful for learning TikZ. Note that you don't need TikZiT to generate images, it's just an example of how it's done. Source: over 1 year ago

• My Mathematics PhD research workflow: LaTeX notes and instant pdf referencing

  The best way to TikZ is to copy-paste from previous figures you've created. The second best is to look for a similar figure on TeXample https://texample.net/tikz/examples/ or stack overflow https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf The third best option is to use squared paper to draw by hand, then transfer hand-drawn stuff into TikZ code. It's slow as hell, but works well if you build up a... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Draw a square frustum in perspective?

  I suggest you use a gui tool for tikz like Tikzit. Source: about 2 years ago

• How would you make something like this? Specifically asking for the arrows.

  Would recommend tikzpicture, you can create that sort of diagram and have it written as latex coding to implement in your file. You can create the diagram in TikZit (https://tikzit.github.io) or with MathCha (https://www.mathcha.io). Source: over 2 years ago

• Looking for software that can help me make figures like this one.

  A graphical TikZ editor for graphs https://tikzit.github.io/. Source: over 2 years ago

Ipe mentions (0)