braids – Draw braid di­a­grams with PGF/TikZ

The pack­age en­ables draw­ing of braid di­a­grams with PGF/TikZ us­ing a sim­ple syn­tax. The braid it­self is spec­i­fied by giv­ing a word in the braid group, and there are many op­tions for styling the strands and for draw­ing “floors”.