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I'm trying to locate some detailed documentation on the animate package. When I look at examples here and in other places, there is really way too much unknown syntax to figure out. I was hoping someone here could help. I have started using TikZ a couple of months ago and wanted to try my luck with animating some examples, but mostly I find fairly complex examples that others have created and I need to start off with something a little more basic. I've also searched online, but it just seems as though there is a missing manual somewhere. I have the official documentation by the way.

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    Welcome to TeX.sx! This might help. – jub0bs Mar 25 '13 at 17:50
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    As first step you can look for Q/A in the [tag:animate] and [tag:animation] tags here. Notice also that usually, to animate a TikZ picture, not always is needed the animate package: very often you can rely on the TikZ style visible on from Daniel and a bunch of other styles. A couple of examples are 1 and 2. – Claudio Fiandrino Mar 25 '13 at 18:34
  • The package manual is good, though it took me a couple of times through it before I knew what was going on. – Matthew Leingang Mar 25 '13 at 18:45
  • @ClaudioFiandrino: Are you assuming OP is using beamer as well as TikZ? – Matthew Leingang Mar 25 '13 at 18:46
  • @MatthewLeingang: ops... you're perfectly right: that's a big assumption. To rectify the previous comment: the styles I was mentioning should be used within Beamer presentations. – Claudio Fiandrino Mar 25 '13 at 18:53
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    Maybe this could help: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/73067/how-to-use-autoplay-within-animate-package-together-with-a-pause-at-the-end-of/73093#73093 I give a complete (short) example of the animate package by frames made in TikZ. – nickpapior Mar 25 '13 at 19:34
  • First, thank you all for your suggestions and I will explore all of them. I was aware that you can animate within Beamer without the animate package. Sorry for taking so long to get back, but I posted this question right before I had to pick up my 2 year old. Thanks again. I'm sure I'll be back with some more questions, and hopefully with greater detail. – tcoake Mar 26 '13 at 00:59
  • If you happen to speak french, another nice tutorial is on MathemaTeX. – AlexG Mar 26 '13 at 07:53
  • @zeroth: I just finished reading your tutorial of the timeline which I like a lot. You presented it in a much easier way to understand, at least, for me. Is there a name for the programming syntax? I hear references to lua, but there really should be a manual or something out there because when I look at one persons example and then another i notice certain syntax that i've not seen before which implies that they learned of it somewhere specifically on the texample.net . Thanks again. – tcoake Mar 26 '13 at 11:48
  • @AlexG I don't speak french, but google chrome does a pretty good job of translating it, so thank you for the link. – tcoake Mar 26 '13 at 14:36

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