Drawing knot pictures using L^ATEXwith X_Y-pic - An introduction and tutorial

Lars Fischer¹

Date: January 2003

Abstract: X_Y-pic is a TEX-macro package for typesetting graphs and diagrams. It is very modular and there is support for typesetting mathematical knots and links. X_Y-pic's documentation consists of a User's-Guide [Ros99] and a Reference Manual [RM99] available on X_Y-pic's homepage [Ros]. Unfortunately the knot feature is not covered in detail and (not only) this section is missing some basic examples.

This text is not intended to replace [RM99] or [Ros99]. I want to introduce the knots and link feature under L^ATEX and more important I want to give some examples.