Re: [Matplotlib-users] Question: MatPlotLib vs. PyX

[Rich S. <rsh...@ap...>]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Alan G Isaac wrote:

> I find that I draw in PyX but use Matplotlib for data. If you have some
> familiarity with PostScript, PyX should be very intuitive. It has some
> really wonderful drawing features. My needs are almost always static, so
> Matplotlib's interactive and animation capabilities have not (yet) proved
> determinative for me. For data, especially time series data, I can no
> longer imagine doing without Matplotlib. It is brilliant.

Alan,

   Thanks very much. I've done several figures with PSTricks for use in LaTeX
docs and beamer-class presentations. Our need now is to generate plots from
data, not manually drawn. From your description I'll keep PyX in mind, but
use matplotlib for now.

Rich

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