[matplotlib-devel] Pgfplots (TikZ) backend: implementation strategy

Hi, I'm looking into replacing my MATLAB(R) plotting routines by something slicker, and quite naturally found matplotlib. It has all the capabilities that I would need, except that I can't yet transform my plots into TikZ. For MATLAB(R), I used this rather elaborate script

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Pgfplots (TikZ) backend: implementation strategy

Nico Schlömer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking into replacing my MATLAB(R) plotting routines by something > slicker, and quite naturally found matplotlib. It has all the > capabilities that I would need, except that I can't yet transform my > plots into TikZ. > For MATLAB(R), I used this rather elabora

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Pgfplots (TikZ) backend: implementation strategy

> That sounds more feasible -- however, keep in mind that anything without a > public interface (a get_* method) is free to change in a future version of > matplotlib.  I suspect (though haven't thought it all the way through) that > you may be required to dig into private members to get everything

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Pgfplots (TikZ) backend: implementation strategy

Matplotlib, by design, needs to know the exact dimension (height, width and descent) of texts that the backend will produce (before the output is produced), and I wonder if that's going to be possible with TikZ. Unless you can solve this problem, I don't think tikz backend will be feasible. Some f