better use the MiKTeX package manager for the installation of pgf/TikZ. Click on Start/ MiKTeX/ Browse packages and install the pgf package.

Stefan

Thanks for showing this neat system. I’ve been really struggling with doing diagrams (especially commuting diagrams for category theory papers) in LaTeX, and this looks like it works pretty well. I just downloaded the file, with a .tar.gz extension. I’m using MikTeX and Texmaker, and I’m not sure where I should put the file, any hints?

Thanks!
-Jon Beardsley

TikZ is a great graphics package, I can recommend it really. Learning it is not easy, but there are many examples you could start with. Just take a complete example (for instance from texample.net) and modify it until it suits. There’s an extensive documentation. Just try it, have a look at the graphs examples and into the manual, perhaps also into the TikZ category of this blog.

Stefan

I am a newbie to LaTeX; I have been trying to use graphviz for creating simple graphs that I want to include in my text. However, I have had a lot of trouble using it and never figured out how to include math formulas as node names.

I have never used TikZ… Would you recommend TikZ instead?

Thanks,

Aleksandar