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

[Pierre Vuillemin]

Following Antoine's idea, find enclosed an example on how you can 
automate the process of improving your plots. This is obviously 
incomplete but it gives a general idea.

Hope it helps,

Pierre

Le 08.03.2017 10:08, Antoine Monmayrant a écrit :
> 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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