tkz-graph — for graph theory

Release 2.20c 2026/10/20

Description

The package tkz-graph.sty is a collection of some useful macros if you want to draw manually a graph of the graph theory. The kind of graphs that I will present, are sometimes called combinatorial graphs to distinguish them from the graphs of functions. The macros are designed to give math teachers (and students) easy access at the programmation of drawing graphs with TikZ. I therefore hope that my packages provide ideal tools for teachers wanting to offer their students fine documents of maths.

License

This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3c or (at your option) any later version. See the files LICENSE and lppl-1-3c.txt.

This work has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained". The Current Maintainer of this work is Alain Matthes.

Requirements

The package compiles with utf8, pdflatex and lualatex, loads and depends on updated versions of:

• tikz

Since version 2.20c, xkeyval is no longer needed: the keys use pgfkeys, which is part of TikZ.

Installation

The package tkz-graph is present in TeXLive and MiKTeX, use the package manager to install.

You can experiment with the tkz-graph package by placing all of the distribution files in the directory containing your current tex file.

How to use it

To use the package tkz-graph, place the following line in the preamble of your LaTeX document:

\usepackage{tkz-graph}

Documentation

Documentation for tkz-graph is available on CTAN.

Examples

All examples given in documentation will be stored on CTAN as standalone files, ready for compilation.

Other examples, in french, are on my site: http://altermundus.fr

History

• 2.2 (2026/10/07) keys with pgfkeys instead of xkeyval, short names installed only in the pictures, prefixed names (\tkzVertex...), option noshortnames, new styles with \tkzDefGraphStyle.

The full list of changes is in CHANGELOG.md.

Author

Alain Matthes, 5 rue de Valence, Paris 75005, al (dot) ma (at) mac (dot) com