I'm making a calendar. The calendar will be for TUG, 2015. Last year I also made a calendar but because of time constraints most examples were graphics.
Since this is a lot of work, I need your help.
If you can/want to help out, the following are the requirements for contributions:
- Your contribution should not exceed 1 page of A4 size, in landscape or A5 size, portrait orientation.
- You should post your TeX solution as an answer to this question.
- If possible, please provide a hyperlink to the pdf output document.
- If you want to make your submission available for the calendar, you should make sure the document can be made available in a single page pdf that has a size that does not exceed A4/landscape. I will ask you for the pdf if I need it.
- Your submission may use user-defined packages and proprietary fonts. There is no need to make these available.
- Your submission should include a short description and a screenshot of the output.
The following template may be useful to get started.
% save this document as example.tex
% compile this document with: pdflatex -shell-escape example.tex
\documentclass{article}
% Needed to make sure your page dimensions
% are the same as that of the calendar.
\usepackage[landscape,a4paper]{geometry}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{external}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node[scale=10]{Your Art Here.};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
- On 4 October, 2013 I decided to relax my question and also accept showcases of typography.
- On 12 November, I once more relaxed my question because I definitely don't have the time to make a tasty looking calendar on my own. There may be a prize for one or two submissions.
- Springer are kindly donating two copies of LaTeX and Friends.
- If there are enough submissions, I'll compile a calendar. Otherwise, I may have to cancel the project.
- There have been too few submissions so I am cancelling the calendar for 2014. Peter Wilson has already implemented a TeX-based calendar so I don't see any real problem.
- Nicholas Hamilton and ChrisS have won a copy of the book.
When the calendar is finished, I will post the code as an answer to this question. Hopefully, this will help people who want to do similar things.
FWIW I decided not to award my bounty (500) today (2014-02-14) as I'd like to raise the standard a bit.
Best Answer
Well someone has to go first.... !
I have partially completed my PhD, and, use this on the inside cover of my submissions to add some 'artistic-flair', however, the source for the word-cloud is actually my BibTeX Database, so the cloud is relevant to each document, and, the sample above is effectively the last one that I produced.
In terms of methodology, the cloud itself was produced in R, via custom package, which I have written for this purpose. This custom package is more-or-less a convenience wrapper to the
wordcloud
package which is freely available.To integrate it with LaTeX, I used knitr, however, this is simply to call the R package, which I have instructed to produce the result in .tikz format.
So here is the code to my solution:
The tikz file
WordCloud.tikz
, and the resulting pdf, can be found HERE.