Maybe this http://matplotlib.org/users/whats_new.html#pgf-tikz-backend can be used. I didn't play with it, though, so I don't know if it supports the kinds of plots output by circuitplot.
Aaron Meurer On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmm, I guess we can't win. Maybe we should ask about this on the > matplotlib mailing list. > > You can see from those two examples that the math does look better > with usetex. For example, notice how the > in |q0> is misaligned with > the matplotlib rendering. Basically, any math that's more than one > character is going to be off in some way with the matplotlib > rendering, and it gets worse the more complicated the math is. And as > you noticed, some math, such as matrices, is not supported at all. > > So ask on the matplotlib mailing list about this, and point us to the > thread. I doubt they will be able to make the matplotlib math > rendering better, but they might be able to make the bounding boxes > around the usetex math a little bigger. > > (btw, the thing that looks *really* bad in all the examples are the > off center vertical lines. Any idea how to fix that?) > > Aaron Meurer > > > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Ondřej Čertík <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Rick Muller <[email protected]> wrote: >>> This is directed mostly at Aaron, but it's here for everyone in case anyone >>> wants to comment. >>> >>> In a recent merge thread, Aaron said (regarding the use of >>> "rc('text',usetex=True)"): >>> >>>> You probably should just do this automatically in circuitplot, since >>>> matplotlib's latex is so bad anyway. Then you could probably even print >>>> those little measurement icons using LaTeX itself. Maybe there is some >>>> LaTeX >>>> library that includes it? >>> >>> >>> The problem with this is that it degrades the quality of the plots, in my >>> opinion. >>> >>> Here's an example using the normal flags. >>> >>> Here's an example using the rc('text',usetex=True). >>> >>> I think the box around H is sized better, and the fonts print a little >>> thicker, in the version without the usetex flags. Any thoughts as to how >>> this impacts the suggestion of always using the flags? >> >> I've noticed Aaron comment in the PR. However, I do agree with you Rick, >> I also like the "normal flags" version better. >> >> I did sometimes notice that when the formula is more complicated, that >> the latex version might look a little bit better. >> >> Ondrej >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sympy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
