The #TeXLatex #TikZlings wish you a happy new year!
(animation created by Ulrike Fischer)
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The 2025 edition of the Great #Tikzlings Christmas Extravaganza has just been released.
Guided by William Shakespeare and Dante Alighieri you are going to meet a hallucinating meerkat and Wagnerian bats. You will learn things about Canada and find out where all the flowers have gone. You will listen to “Silent Night” on steel drums and see your favourite Tikzlings on holiday in France. There are ducks on ice, termite soup and reminiscences of Alfred Hitchcock, and some of the participants are hopping mad and, and, and… Have a look!
You can find the full video at https://vimeo.com/1147001506
This is the newest addition to the #TikZlings package. If you have any suggestions for a name for the turkey, please let me know until tonight (CET, when I'll upload the new version to #CTAN)
Here a short example
\documentclass[varwidth,border=1pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{BusyPanda}
\newcommand{\bamboo}{%
\rule{\BusyPanda{0.125}\fontcharht\font`I}{\fontcharht\font`I}
}
\begin{document}
normal cmr: \bamboo
\bfseries
bold cmr: \bamboo
\normalfont
\fontfamily{ugq}\selectfont
normal ugq: \bamboo
\end{document}
The new panda package currently makes it way around ctan mirrors!
One challenge when drawing icons or symbols can be to make them blend in with the surrounding text. If their line widths look good with one font, they can stand out like a sore thumb with another font. The panda package provides tools to automatically adjust line widths etc. to fit in with the surrounding font.
