Torsten Bronger wrote: > 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.
Easier... psfrag tricks can be done right now, while full latex output requires writing a new matplotlib backend. It would certainly be a _great_ project, but not one I'm about to undertake, while it's reasonable for me to use psfrag to fix a few labels here and there to use proper latex. So while I agree with you that in the long run a latex backend would be ideal, as a stop-gap solution I can live with psfrag. >> [...] 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. well, unless your batch process _is_ in python :) Mine was, so my make_plots.py was a single script, which ironically (for this discussion) was all gnuplot.py-based, since this was a few years ago. Cheers, f -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
