Re:Neovim
by GFK_of_xmaspast on Friday February 21, 2014 @10:28PM
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I wrote a dissertation, two theses, and a bunch of papers in latex and I never ever ever ever did any graphics that weren't imported as eps or, later, png.
I don't know your exact use cases but I am reallyfond of pgfplots which, being based on TikZ, integrates much better than matplotlib. But I also happen to hate matplotlib for sticking with "that" API ...
Re:Neovim
by jbranchaud on Saturday February 22, 2014 @11:18PM
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As long as you can get it in vector format, it doesn't matter.
What about tables? Granted they aren't fun to make, but I am not aware of any methods of creating them outside of a latex document.
This is what most people do in physics and astronomy. You make the plot in some kind of plotting package and export it to a vector format. In astronomy, the journals only recently started accepting PDF figures in addition to EPS.
In my experience doing all of my figures in LaTeX is significantly more painful than using a real plotting package like matplotlib.