Text collage (word cloud) in LaTeX?

Asked Sep 28 '13 at 11:52

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There are some automatic method (package, class, macro) in LaTeX to do a text collage similar to that showed in the image?

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If not, is would be possible without too much manual work?. The background, the font and the shape of the collage does not matter (is enough a rentangular shape).

edited Sep 28 '13 at 14:43

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I don't think someone has implemented a word cloud engine in TeX, yet. Maybe you have more luck searching for Lua libraries which could be leveraged. Here's a blog post which uses a Java word cloud engine which can be hooked into TeX: Word clouds in ConTeXt – Marco Sep 28 '13 at 12:04
For anyone trying to implement this, here's the algorithm wordle uses: Here's how Wordle actually works – Marco Sep 28 '13 at 14:15
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sort of related (possible starting point): Placing text at random positions on the screen in beamer. I also added word clouds to the title- hope that's ok :) – cmhughes Sep 28 '13 at 14:42
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Possible duplicates: Wordle-like word clouds, Word clouds in LaTeX – Marco Sep 28 '13 at 15:01
The right words were finally "word clouds", so the question is really a duplicate. But I asked specifically for a LaTeX solution, that is not still answered in Marco's links. Although only related, for me only the cmhughes's link is in the right direction. – Fran Sep 28 '13 at 20:40

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