TikZ on Google Colab

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Maybe you can take into consideration colab users, and add some info on running tikz on colab?

You install latex, and that's easy, but then there are some problems visualizing the graphs. Maybe I'll solve those problems myself while actually studying, or there is a bigger compatibility problem?

import os
import time # per stampare data di modifica dei file
path = "/content/drive/MyDrive/Colab Notebooks/murphy_book1_14"
os.chdir(path)

files = os.listdir()  # List files in the current directory
print(files)  # Print the list of files

%%bash

apt update --quiet

apt install imagemagick --quiet

apt install pdf2svg --quiet

apt install texlive texlive-latex-extra --quiet

# !pip install git+git://github.com/mkrphys/ipython-tikzmagic.git --quiet
pip install git+https://github.com/mkrphys/ipython-tikzmagic.git --quiet

%load_ext tikzmagic

# new cell
%%tikz -S test_output.tikz -f svg
\draw (0,0) rectangle (1,1);
\filldraw (0.5,0.5) circle (.1);

most of your examples outputs are "cut" by colab, why?

can't even select correctly, damn sumatra :-)

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Maybe you can take into consideration colab users, and add some info on running tikz on colab?

Wow! I had no idea one could use a notebook with \LaTeX (although I did think it could have been a possibility)!

You install latex, and that's easy, but then there are some problems visualizing the graphs. Maybe I'll solve those problems myself while actually studying, or there is a bigger compatibility problem?
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most of your examples outputs are "cut" by colab, why?

Yeah, I didn't even know it was an option. Let me know if you figure it out.

can't even select correctly, damn sumatra :-)

Ouch! I see. I'll have a look. Still, on Adobe Acrobat, you can select the code by holding the Option button.

This \LaTeX Stack Excenge question addresses this issue. Perhaps I'll get to fix it.