IPython magics for generating figures with TikZ. You can select the output format as svg, png or jpg, define the image size, specify a scale factor, load TikZ packages, and save to external files. The accompanying IPython notebooks shows some examples demonstrating how to use these features.

The package requires a working LaTeX installation, ImageMagick and pdf2svg.

pip install git+git://github.com/mkrphys/ipython-tikzmagic.git

Load package by writing

%load_ext tikzmagic

in a notebook cell. Call tikz by prepending %tikz to a single command, e.g.,

%tikz \draw (0,0) rectangle (1,1);

or by starting a cell with %%tikz, e.g.,

%%tikz
\draw (0,0) rectangle (1,1);
\filldraw (0.5,0.5) circle (.1);

• -sc or --scale: scaling factor of plots, default=1
• -s or --size: pixel size of plots, e.g., -s width,height, default=400,240
• -f or --format: plot format (png, svg or jpg), default=png
• -e or --encoding: text encoding, default=utf-8
• -x or --preamble: LaTeX preamble to insert before tikz figure, default=None
• -p or --package: LaTeX packages to load, separated by comma, e.g., -p pgfplots,textcomp, default=None
• -l or --library: TikZ libraries to load, separated by comma, e.g., -l matrix,arrows, default=None
• -g or --pgfplotslibrary: Pgfplots libraries to load, separated by comma, e.g., -l matrix,arrows, default=None
• -S or --save: save a copy to file, e.g., -S filename, default=None

IPython example notebook