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> Are you going to create all your figures elsewhere and then include them as images? This is what most people do in physics and astronomy. You make the plot
by ngoldbaum 13y ago
> Are you going to create all your figures elsewhere and then include them as images?
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.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 13y agoI 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.
- matthiasv 13y agoI 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 ...
- jbranchaud 13y agoAs 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.