Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures generated in Python
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Re: Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures generated in Python
#2This is probably most useful for postgrad students getting started with writing with TeX.
It’s worth pointing out that the figures are made using the matplotlib library, which is primarily based on Matlab’s plotting functionality. This is perhaps just as useful for new researchers as many of them are taught Matlab exclusively throughout their undergraduate courses.
Re: Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures generated in Python
#3> We also recommend to save the command used to generate a figure in the LaTeX file
An approach I have adopted recently is Knitr[1], so this layer of indirection goes away. With knitr, my data goes directly into the paper repository, and then my Makefile has something like this:
%.tex: graphs/%.Rnw
Rscript -e "library(knitr); knit('$?')"
Re: Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures generated in Python
#4Thanks for the write-up! Two notes from my experience: pgf output works well with latex as well (although will slowdown compilation), and I recommend not using the pyplot submodule, especially if you'll be running things remotely over ssh and don't have a display
Re: Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures generated in Python
#5Thanks for the write-up! Two notes from my experience: pgf output works well with latex as well (although will slowdown compilation), and I recommend not using the pyplot submodule, especially if you'll be running things remotely over ssh and don't have a display
Would you suggest an alternative to pyplot? What problems does it cause for you?
Re: Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures generated in Python
#6Meta: there seems to be an extra "in" in the title, that makes no sense to me, at least.
Not a native speaker, though.
Re: Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures generated in Python
#7Meta: there seems to be an extra "in" in the title, that makes no sense to me, at least. Not a native speaker, though.
It's a careless transposition of "papers in LaTeX" → "LaTeX papers in" without removing the "in".
Re: Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures generated in Python
#8Thanks for the write-up! Two notes from my experience: pgf output works well with latex as well (although will slowdown compilation), and I recommend not using the pyplot submodule, especially if you'll be running things remotely over ssh and don't have a display
Would you suggest an alternative to pyplot? What problems does it cause for you?
I had problems using pyplot over ssh because it can assume there's a display and fail when it couldn't find one.
Maybe this has changed. I use the OO interface. For example https://matplotlib.org/gallery/api/agg_oo_sgskip.html
Re: Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures generated in Python
#9I also recommend separating repetitive parts of plot generating code into template files, such as with mako or jinja2, and then programmatically generate sequences of plots by first piping the data into the jinja2 template, and then using insert commands to insert it into a bigger tex document.
I found this helpful when writing a paper where the appendix needed over 35 different tables of regression results, all with the same format but populated with data from different subpopulations, which would need to be regenerated (including updated captions, etc.) any time data cleaning or methodology was changed.
Re: Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures generated in Python
#10One itch which (curiously) I can't seem to quite scratch in LaTeX is that it should be possible to say "plot equation \ref{eq:smth} for X in (-4,4)" and just get the bloody graph. Why should I need to define the equation again in a separate place, perhaps even in a separate file?