HallÃchen! Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [...] > > Well, it's true that the latex-type (called mathtext) support in > matplotlib is not really up to par with true latex (kerning is off > in places, mixed text/math doesn't work well, etc). I've been > willing to live with it so far, but an alternative option is to > use the PS backend and then play psfrag tricks. The problem is that mostly, you'll have a *lot* to substitute. > I've yet to experiment with it, but it might (with some additional > handywork) give final results identical to those of the pslatex > backend in gnuplot. What do you mean with this? Do you want to mimic TeX's quality as a typesetter, or do you think the goal should be output in real LaTeX format (like pslatex does)? The latter would be more useful in my opinion, and much easier, too. > [...] But there are a number of things it simply can't offer due > to its design as a standalone program, which matplotlib (being a > library/widget collection) can do much better. [...] I finally > made the switch and I'm extremely happy. I'm not a fanatic Gnuplot user either. I use it for 11 years, and I like exactly two things about it: its simplicity and the pslatex backend. I think for my thesis I'll still use it, because its integration in a batch process that builds my thesis is much easier than to write Python programs. But if you have measurement programs in Python (I work in a project making this feasible) with on-line plots with mpl, it'd be nice to have the possibility to direct them to a file for high-quality typesetting as well. TschÃ, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
