\documentclass{article} \usepackage{sparklines} \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.25} \begin{document} \title{Sparklines} \author{Andreas L\"{o}ffler} \date{21.~April 2005}\maketitle \section{What are sparklines?} Sparklines are intense, simple, wordlike graphics (so named by Edward Tufte). In lieu of a more detailed introduction, Professor Tufte's site has an early release of a chapter on sparklines, see www.edwardtufte.com. A PHP implementation can be found at http://sparkline.sourceforge.net/. A sparkline can be added using the \texttt{sparkline}--environment. Also, you can add sparkling rectangles for the median and special sparkling dots in red or blue. \textbf{Only use sparklines with pdflatex}, sparklines do not appear within a dvi-file. \texttt{Sparklines} does not work with \texttt{pictex}. If we want to add a sparkline, be careful not to leave an empty line between the text left from the sparkline and the environment itself (starting with the sparkline environment) % This now starts the sparkline of length 10 times the width of the letter x \begin{sparkline}{10} % This environment has now an own coordinate system. x and y run from 0 to 1. % This draws a sparkling-rectangle with lower level y=0.3 and upper level y=0.5 \sparkrectangle 0.3 0.5 % This draws a blue colored sparkling-dot at x=0.5, y=0.8 \sparkdot 0.5 0.62 blue % This draws a red colored sparkling-dot at x=1, y=0.2 \sparkdot 1 0.2 red % draws a sparkline with ten values starting at x=0.1 and y=0.95, then x=0.2 and y=0.8 etc. % drawing finishes if / appears \spark 0.1 0.95 0.2 0.8 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.52 0.5 0.62 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.5 0.8 0.4 0.9 0.25 1 0.2 / \end{sparkline} Daimler Chrysler, 12\%, {\color{red} 129}, since otherwise the sparkline starts at a new line. \section*{Version history} \begin{description} \item[] Apr 21, 2005 version 1.1: bug removed thanks to Mathias Hofmann \item[] Dec 12, 2004 version 1.0: first version of sparklines \end{description} \end{document}