Python Graphing Utilities.

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

Bill Mill <bill.mill at gmail.com> writes:

> On 5/11/05, Torsten Bronger <bronger at physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>
>> Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> [...]  Matplotlib is very good, has an active development
>>> community, and it is designed from the ground up not only as a
>>> library for rendering plots to screen/disk, but also for
>>> embedding into guis (with support for Tk, WX, GTK, QT and FLTK).
>> 
>> Why not for Gnuplot, by the way?
>> 
>> On sceen, matplotlib looks extremely good, however, I still need
>> Gnuplot for the hardcopy version[*].  It *seems* to me that the
>> programming interfaces are quite different, so a Gnuplot backend
>> for matplotlib would be helpful for me.
>
> By hardcopy version, I assume you mean Postscript?

Not really.  Gnuplot's output is LaTeX with a couple of native
Postscript directives inbetween.  It's inluded into my document with
"\input plot.plt" rather than "\includegraphics{plot.eps}".

I mentioned the advantages of this approach in the footnote:

> [...]
>
>> [*] because of the "pslatex" backend, which means that the plot
>> is typeset by the same LaTeX run as your document --> consistent
>> fonts, TeX-quality formulae

Tschö,
Torsten.

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