Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures generated in Python

Re:Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures gen... by stilley2 on Monday March 18, 2019 @06:46PM (#19426121)

Thanks for the write-up! Two notes from my experience: pgf output works well with latex as well (although will slowdown compilation), and I recommend not using the pyplot submodule, especially if you'll be running things remotely over ssh and don't have a display

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Re:Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures gen... by alanbernstein on Monday March 18, 2019 @06:49PM (#19426143)

Would you suggest an alternative to pyplot? What problems does it cause for you?

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Re:Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures gen... by stilley2 on Monday March 18, 2019 @07:23PM (#19426361)

I had problems using pyplot over ssh because it can assume there's a display and fail when it couldn't find one. Maybe this has changed. I use the OO interface. For example https://matplotlib.org/gallery/api/agg_oo_sgskip.html

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Re:Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures gen... by jpeloquin on Monday March 18, 2019 @07:53PM (#19426568)

Changing the plot backend should fix this.

  import matplotlib
  matplotlib.use('Agg')
  import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2801882/generating-a-png...

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Re:Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures gen... by stilley2 on Monday March 18, 2019 @11:08PM (#19427746)

I believe Agg is only for bitmap output. While there are probably backends that work with a headless system, I find the OO option much more flexible.

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Re:Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures gen... by p10_user on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @01:35AM (#19428346)

Agg works for all outputs. I use it in combination with OO over ssh all the time.

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Re:Tips and tricks to write LaTeX papers in with figures gen... by Wookai on Monday March 18, 2019 @08:23PM (#19426803)

Indeed, I remember having to switch to Agg for this reason but can't remember why I switched back. Maybe some rendering issues I had with Agg, not sure...

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