Le 07/08/12 01:17, Peter Würtz a écrit :
> Hi!
> I would like to ask for a code review for a new backend I wrote for creating
> figures with Xelatex/Lualatex. It uses the PGF (Tikz) Package for all
> drawing operations and enables full unicode support and typesetting of
> texts/formulas using Latex. This way, the figures created fit perfectly in
> Latex documents. Furthermore, Xelatex/Lualatex is able to use the fonts
> installed on your operating system. The drawing commands of the PGF pictures
> can be included in Latex documents or can be directly compiled to PDF by the
> backend.
>
> Github project for hosting the code, usage instructions and examples:
> https://github.com/pwuertz/matplotlib-backend-pgf
>
> A document demonstrating the benefits of using Xelatex/PGF:
> https://github.com/pwuertz/matplotlib-backend-pgf/raw/master/demo/demo.pdf
>
> Gallery of the matplotlib examples processed with backend_pgf:
> https://github.com/pwuertz/matplotlib-backend-pgf/wiki/Examples%20Gallery
> A few exceptions are known to fail due to Latex incompatible math-text.
>
> This is a matplotlib branch set up as suggested in the matplotlib developer
> wiki. It includes the code from above and adds new rc-parameters and the
> '.pgf' file type.
> https://github.com/pwuertz/matplotlib/compare/master...pgf-backend
>
> Discussions are usually taking place at the github diff, right? I hope
> you'll find this an interesting option for creating figures with matplotlib.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
Very interesting work. Thanks.

Is there any reason that the generated figure could not
be used with pdflatex ?

I ask the question before giving it a try (I use pdflatex).

Regards,

David


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