Directory `macros/latex/contrib/nicematrix`

README.md

Readme for the package nicematrix

Author: F. Pantigny (fpantigny@wanadoo.fr).

CTAN page: https://ctan.org/pkg/nicematrix

GitHub page: github.com/fpantigny/nicematrix

License

The LaTeX extension nicematrix is distributed under the LPPL 1.3 license.

Presentation

The LaTeX package nicematrix provides new environments similar to the classical environments {tabular}, {array} and {matrix} but with some additional features. The extension nicematrix creates PGF/Tikz nodes corresponding to the cells of the array and uses them to provide new functionalities.

This package can be used with xelatex, lualatex, pdflatex but also by the classical workflow latex-dvips-ps2pdf (or Adobe Distiller).

Installation

The package nicematrix is present in the distributions MiKTeX, TeXLive and MacTeX.

For a manual installation:

put the files nicematrix.ins and nicematrix-code.dtx in the same directory;
run latex nicematrix.ins in that directory.

The file nicematrix.sty will be generated.

The file nicematrix.sty is the only file necessary to use the extension nicematrix. You have to put it in the same directory as your document or (best) in a texmf tree.

For the documentation in English, run: lualatex nicematrix.tex (several compilations are required).

For the documentation in French, run: lualatex nicematrix-french.tex

Download the contents of this package in one zip archive (2.7M).

nicematrix – Improve the typesetting of mathematical matrices with PGF

This package is based on the package array. It creates PGF/TikZ nodes under the cells of the array and uses these nodes to provide functionalities to construct tabulars, arrays and matrices.

Among the features :

continuous dotted lines for the mathematical matrices;
exterior rows and columns (so-called border matrices);
control of the width of the columns;
tools to color rows and columns with a good PDF result;
blocks of cells;
tabular notes;
etc.

The package requires and loads array, amsmath, pgfcore, and the module shapes of PGF.

Package	nicematrix
Repository	https://github.com/fpantigny/nicematrix
Version	7.2b 2025-08-26
Licenses	The LaTeX Project Public License 1.3
Copyright	2018–2025 F. Pantigny
Maintainer	François Pantigny
Contained in	TeX Live as nicematrix MiKTeX as nicematrix
Topics	Experimental LaTeX3 PGF TikZ Maths Matrix

Directory macros/latex/contrib/nicematrix