It's a pretty sweet system. I use it to design puzzle books. (Crisscross, Cryptograms, nonograms, fill-a-pix, etc.) There is no greater time-sink than writing

It's a pretty sweet system. I use it to design puzzle books. (Crisscross, Cryptograms, nonograms, fill-a-pix, etc.) There is no greater time-sink than writing a true program in Latex... I generally write a C++ program to write the latex/Tikz code using the most basic primitives. I would prefer to do layout using a pure C++ 2d library such as SFML and then export a 'screen' as a PDF. But, to date we haven't been able to match the sheer 'beauty' of Latex/Tkz output. Shameless plug for our puzzle books: search Amazon for Klooto Games.