TikZ: a LaTeX package for creating graphics in scientific documents

Dr. Soumen Atta, Ph.D.
5 min readSep 21, 2022
TikZ: a LaTeX package for creating graphics in scientific documents

In this tutorial, we will learn the basics of TikZ which is a LaTeX package for creating graphics in scientific documents. In this tutorial, it is assumed that the reader is familiar with the basics of LaTeX for writing scientific documents.

To use TikZ in our LaTeX document, we need to use the following package:

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Dr. Soumen Atta, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Center for Information Technologies and Applied Mathematics, School of Engineering and Management, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia