[evolve] TikZ figures for the Evolve user guide

Faheem Mitha faheem at faheem.info
Thu Aug 21 07:56:12 CDT 2014


I posted the following just now

http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/197325/

The complete text at time of writing appears below.

As some of you probably know, TikZ is pretty much considered the best 
thing since sliced bread in thw world of TeX. It is a figure drawing 
language, supports plain TeX, LaTeX, and ConTeXt, and outputs vector 
graphics. Conversion to SVG is possible, see

http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/51757/

I suggested the User Guide figures as a concrete goal. I'm not sure
where the other figures in the 'figure/' directory are being
used. There are 12 figures in the Guide, but there are 26 in that
directory.

                                                       Regards, Faheem

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I don't know how many Mercurial users are on this site, but if you do use
Mercurial, you may have heard of the Mercurial killer extension, Evolve,
which is eventually planned to be in Mercurial core.

There is a new user guide out now. You can see it at Evolve: User Guide

As you can see, this guide has 12 figures. It seems to me these figures
are crying out for some TikZ love.

So, I thought it would be nice if the community could get together and
create figures for this guide. Once these exist, creating more figures
would probably be easier. I realise this is not what this site is
customarily used for, but since it is in a good cause (a widely used piece
of free software) perhaps people could stretch a point. Once produced, it
would not be difficult to merge these figures into the user manual.

I was thinking that we could mark everything community wiki, and each
answer could be for one figure.

Here is the source code repository for Evolve on Bitbucket.

Here the figures. The figures that correspond to the figures in the user
guide are of the form figure-ug{i}.svg, where i = 1,...,12.


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