[Scilab-users] ?==?utf-8?q? Plots for scientific papers

[Antoine Monmayrant]

It's definetly possible to do it.
In my group, we usually:
- set decent default values for the default figure ( hd=gdf() ): increase font size, ...
- fix the ticks madness (ie replace [0. 0.167 0.333 0.5 0.667 0.833 1. ] ticks by [0. 0.25 0.5 0.75 1.])
- use the latex rendering for all the text, including ticks labels:
- for ticks¹, just prepend & append "$" to the labels: ["0"; "0.25"; "0.5"; "0.75"; "1"]->["$0$"; "$0.25$"; "$0.5$"; "$0.75$"; "$1$"].
- for text, use "$\text{" and "}$" : "$\text{Your fancy text rendered in Latex: \lambda^\beta}$"
- Export in a vectorial format, I prefer svg.
- Apply some cosmetic changes, add arrows, "(a)", "(b)", ... using Inkscape
- Generate a pdf version.


Hope it helps,

Antoine
¹ We have a script to clean up the ticks: it sets a decent number of ticks, and automate the prepend/append of "$".

 
Le Mardi, Mars 07, 2017 20:35 CET, Claus Futtrup <cfuttrup at gmail.com> a écrit: 
 
> Hi
> 
> I'm using Python matplotlib for some graphs for scientific papers. The 
> reason is that the font and all seems to fit very well with the LaTeX 
> document.
> 
> I know that Scilab can accept MathML (or LaTeX) expressions. Is there a 
> simple way to configure Scilab for similar high-quality plots? ... I'd 
> like all text to be nice looking, i.e. the title, the x-axis and y-axis 
> labels, the legend, etc.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Claus
> 
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