New CTAN package: sparklines
Datum: 15. Dezember 2004 00:00:36 MEZ
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 Andreas Loeffler submitted
a new package called
sparklines
Sparklines are intense, simple, wordlike graphics. This tool allows to draw sparklines using the pgf-package.
License is lppl
CTAN location is graphics/sparklines
Announcement text:
Sparklines are intense, simple, wordlike graphics (so named by Edward Tufte). In lieu of a more detailed introduction, Professor Tufte's site has an early release of a chapter on sparklines, see www.edwardtufte.com. A PHP implementation can be found at http://sparkline.sourceforge.net/. A sparkline can be added using the sparkline-environment. Also, you can add sparkling rectangles for the median and special sparkling dots in red or blue. Only use sparklines with pdflatex, sparklines do not appear in a dvi-file. Sparklines does not work with pictex.
Thanks for the upload For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf
Sparklines are intense, simple, wordlike graphics (so named by Edward Tufte). In lieu of a more detailed introduction, Professor Tufte's site has an early release of a chapter on sparklines, see www.edwardtufte.com. A PHP implementation can be found at http://sparkline.sourceforge.net/. A sparkline can be added using the sparkline-environment. Also, you can add sparkling rectangles for the median and special sparkling dots in red or blue. Only use sparklines with pdflatex, sparklines do not appear in a dvi-file. Sparklines does not work with pictex.
Thanks for the upload For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf
sparklines – Drawing sparklines: intense, simple, wordlike graphics
Sparklines are intense, simple, wordlike graphics (so named by Edward Tufte). In lieu of a more detailed introduction, Professor Tufte's site has an early release of a chapter on sparklines. A PHP implementation may be found at SourceForge.
A sparkline can be added using the sparkline environment. Also, you can add sparkling rectangles for the median and special sparkling dots in red or blue. The package requires pdfLaTeX; sparklines cannot appear in a dvi file. The sparklines package uses pgf, and does not work with pictex.
Paket | sparklines |
Version | 1.7 |
Betreuer | Andreas Löffler Daniel H. Luecking Emil van Miltenburg (inaktiv) |