samcarter
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4 years ago @CampanIgnis Thanks a lot for all these suggestions! That's definitely a good idea! I'll keep this list in mind when adding new TikZlings, but implementation might take some time.
The Chinese zodiacs are mostly based on animals and used in various Asian countries, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_zodiac. I know these are a lot but some of them are already implemented.
Some of these animals are classical choices for favorite pets and hence are interesting outside the zodiac realm.
Additions once the animals are implemented:
\thisChineseZodiac[options]which like\todayselects the current animal at compile time,\chineseZodiac[options]{date}which selects the animal of thedate, wheredatemight be a date or a year, e.g.\chineseZodiac[options]{2020}equals\mouse[options],\thisYearsChineseZodiac[options]which selects the animal of the current year, and\nextYearsChineseZodiac[options]which selects the animal of the next year.The options are passed to the animal, e.g.
\mouse[options]. The commands focussing on years are simpler to implement and possibly more important. The command\nextYearsChineseZodiac[options]is useful for new years greetings cards.If you are able to add one animal by year starting with Ox this year, you might also implement
\thisYearsChineseZodiac[options]and\nextYearsChineseZodiac[options]as the existing animals would be sufficient to execute these commands.Thank you for your work and your time.