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

[Claus Futtrup]

Hi Pierre and Antoine

Thank you very much for your help. This is very inspiring and encouraging.

Best regards,
Claus

On 08-03-2017 11:41, Pierre Vuillemin wrote:
> 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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