on TikZ as glossolalia

[aepfelx]

An observation:

TikZ is to LaTeX as Hmong orthography is to the Latin alphabet

Comments

[zvuv]

that, right there, was Hmong to me. :)

[aepfelx]

err, yea, sorry, limited-appeal post. but i figured after darcydodo make random references to the same system that i thought was utterly obscure, i'm allowed to follow suit

but it's actually not that far from your domain -- LaTeX, which you may've heard from your favorite geog grad student, is a very robust system for typesetting technical papers, particularly strong with math formulas, and TikZ is an enormously powerful and enormously complicated add-on to make really pretty technical diagrams for said papers (at cost of one's sanity in the course of learning it)