Putting thoughts into a mind map

A mind map visualizes information or ideas. Usually, there’s a primary concept in the center; major concepts branch out from it. Smaller ideas start from the major concepts, so it can look like a spider web.

In this recipe, we will draw a mind map of TeX concepts.

How to do it...

We will use the TikZ mindmap library. Follow these steps:

1. Start with a document class:

   \documentclass{article}

2. Load the geometry package with the landscape option so that our wide map will fit the page:

   \usepackage[landscape]{geometry}

3. Load the tikz package and the mindmap library:

   \usepackage{tikz}
   \usetikzlibrary{mindmap}

4. Load the dtk-logos package to get additional TeX-related logo macros:

   \usepackage{dtk-logos}

5. Start the document and begin the TikZ picture:

   \begin{document}
   \begin{tikzpicture}

6. Start path with options:

     \path [

7. Provide the mindmap option, and choose a white text color:

       mindmap,
   ...