Just to point out, matplotlib does have a fairly new PGF backend. Perhaps
you might want to look at that and see where the TikZ library might fit in
with that?
Cheers!
Ben Root
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Neil Girdhar <mistersh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know matplotlib well enough (yet) to know what the change would
> consist of.
>
> I suggest you take a look at the beautiful tikz manual:
> http://pgf.sourceforge.net/pgf_CVS.pdf
>
> The arrows.meta on page 201–212 are really well-designed and beautiful.
>
> Compare this with matplotlib's custom arrows:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16968007/custom-arrow-style-for-matplotlib-pyplot-annotate
>
> How do I make tikz's arrowheads available for all backends?
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote:
>
>> On 2015/05/13 12:39 AM, Neil Girdhar wrote:
>> > TikZ is an extremely well-designed library for generating professional
>> > figures within the cumbersome TeX framework. Currently, my work flow is
>> > to generate TikZ code using Python. The TikZ is compiled into PDFs,
>> > which are then included in my LaTeX files. I would like to work
>> > entirely in Python.
>> >
>> > This means that I want to incorporate TikZ's features into matplotlib.
>> > I want to start with custom pgf arrowheads. Will this be possible.
>> > What is the process from feature idea to pull request that I would have
>> > to go through?
>>
>> You're on the right track by raising the idea here. Depending on how
>> complicated the idea is, the next step after some mailing list
>> discussion could be either a MEP or a PR; but personally I would prefer
>> to get a better picture of what you are talking about via this mailing
>> list first.
>>
>> Are you talking about adding high-level functionality that would be
>> applicable to all backends? Can you give an example of what sorts of
>> changes would be required in mpl, and what they would accomplish?
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> >
>> > Best,
>> >
>> > Neil
>>
>>
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