Hello all, For several years (in the dark Matlab-ages before Julia), I used matlab2tikz<https://github.com/nschloe/matlab2tikz> to generate nice looking pdf figures for academic reports. It's a nice tool and I personally like the idea that my data is exported from matlab to a .tikz or .tex file that I can make changes to without having to open matlab and reexport my figures.
Julia already has some very nice plotting features in Winston, Gadfly and matplotlib (IJulia), am I forgetting someone? The exporting options are good and useful for many different purposes. However, for me, there's something extraordinary about the tikz/pgf plots that I haven't been able to reproduce with these packages. Therefore I've made a quick-and-dirty module https://github.com/1oly/PrintFig.jl that uses PyCall to call matplotlib2tikz<https://github.com/nschloe/matplotlib2tikz>, a close relative to matlab2tikz, that exports figure objects to a .tex file using the standalone latex documentclass. I like this approach and it creates the figures that I like for academic work. It's not the intention to add this to METADATA but merely to get a discussion going - if anyone is interested at all... If anyone has comments, suggestions or want to discuss workflows for generating latex friendly plots, don't be shy :) Cheers, Oliver
