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

[Pierre Vuillemin]

I may complete the script over time if you have some suggestions.

Until then, I don't see any difference when changing the value of the 
anti-aliasing option, does someone know if it is still functional?

Regards,

Pierre


Le 08/03/2017 à 16:29, Claus Futtrup a écrit :
> 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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