[Matplotlib-users] PGF backend

2013-11-20 Thread David Kremer
Hello ! I would like to have some hints about the matplotlib usage, especially the PGF/tikz backend. I use a latex document, and almost only tikz figures. I have a couple of problems with the matplotlib package. The first is the preemptive behaviour of the matplotlib package over the used

[Matplotlib-users] PGF backend and logarithmic plots

2013-03-22 Thread kalle
Hi, following problem arises when using the pgf backend: For the plots in my document I would like to use a sans-serif font. Because I want to use the functionality of the Tex-package siunitx (among others) I need to use either the pdf-backend with text.usetex set to True or the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Pgf Backend with Xelatex support

2012-06-27 Thread Andreas Hilboll
Hi, When creating figures to be included in Latex documents I encountered a few problems. In the end the text rendering just doesn't blend in well, one way or another. I found that the problems can be fixed by using Xelatex, which provides full unicode support and is able to use the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Pgf Backend with Xelatex support

2012-06-27 Thread Peter Würtz
Andreas Hilboll wrote: I wrote a new backend that uses the pgf latex package for drawing matplotlib figures. It is compatible with pdflatex, xelatex and lualatex. The pgf pictures can be included in latex documents or can be directly compiled to PDF by the backend, utilizing the benefits

[Matplotlib-users] Pgf Backend with Xelatex support

2012-06-26 Thread Peter Würtz
Hi, When creating figures to be included in Latex documents I encountered a few problems. In the end the text rendering just doesn't blend in well, one way or another. I found that the problems can be fixed by using Xelatex, which provides full unicode support and is able to use the installed

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Pgf Backend with Xelatex support

2012-06-26 Thread Eric Firing
On 06/26/2012 03:14 AM, Peter Würtz wrote: * Backends like svg or pdf are able to display the document upon show(). I don't know how this is achieved without creating a graphical user interface myself. The other backends don't implement it. Not so--the non-interactive backends like svg and pdf

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Pgf Backend with Xelatex support

2012-06-26 Thread Peter Würtz
efiring wrote: Not so--the non-interactive backends like svg and pdf do not do anything upon show(), so it sounds like nothing needs to be added to your pgf backend on this score. Hmm right, when explicitly changing to non gui backends like ps or pdf the show command is ignored too. I