This would certainly serve as a good template for a julia version. Thanks!
Den mandag den 12. maj 2014 15.42.28 UTC+2 skrev Miguel Bazdresch: > > Some time ago I wrote a script to use pgfplots from octave/Matlab: > > > https://bitbucket.org/mbaz/printpgf/src/28cead667bda6ec745a4418bc408f7f712cf8433/inst/printpgf.m > > It's very easy to use and I've used it for several publications. I tried > it to make it very easy to perfectly match fonts with the rest of your > document, by including a document preamble that you specify. > > I want to port this to Julia, but I haven't had the time. If somebody > thinks this is a good idea, feel free to copy it. > > -- mb > > > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Oliver Lylloff > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> 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 >> > >
