"Alex Vergara Gil" <a...@cphr.edu.cu> writes: > From: "Richard Heck" <rgh...@lyx.org> > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 5:05 PM >>> I might be *completely* off, but couldn't you achieve exactly this via >>> defining converters? I have for example a converter defined, which >>> "converts" plantuml source fields into uml graphs, i.e. it defines the >>> call to compile them and return the graphs which are then inserted in >>> the document? >> >> Yes, that's more or less what I was suggesting. >> >> rh >> >
I just add comments inline > Let's see if I understand: -1. You define a *file type* in LyX under Preferences > File Handling > File Formats for the file type .pygr in which "Vector graphics format" is ticked! 0. You define a converter under Preferences > File Handling > Converters which calls a script which executed files with the extension .pygr and generates, as you suggest below, an svg. > 1. I wrote a python script that produces the graphic I want Exactly - and you give it a specific extension .pygr for "python script which generates a graphic" which you defined above. > 2. I insert it in LyX somehow I don't know, perhaps defining a > converter from .py to svg, but this needs to be inside a module or > every python script in LyX will try to be converted into a svg!! So a > module is also needed Use insert graphic and select *your .pygr* file as graphic - and Lyx will do the rest of the conversion - i.e. use your converter to convert the .pygr to an svg and other existing converters to generate the png for the preview and the pdf / eps / ... for the final copmpilation of the document. > 3. LyX is the one who knows the correct size of the graphic so in > principle if I produce a svg should be enough but in this way I need > to produce a new svg every time the data change Correct - if the input data changes, you have to generate the graph again manually, or, if the "Converter file cache" is disabled, you just have to close the document and open it again. Hope this helps, Rainer > > Take this simple script as example > > import numpy as np > from numpy.random import randn > import matplotlib as mpl > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt > np.random.seed(9221999) > data = randn(75) > plt.hist(data) > > which produce a graphic like this in spyder > > > > So basically I save this graphic to a svg and then I load it into LyX, > but why not letting LyX doing this automatically if it already handles > with python?? This is my question. > > Regards > > Alex -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug PGP: 0x0F52F982
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