Re: [matplotlib-devel] Incorporating TikZ into Matplotlib

[Neil G. <mis...@gm...>]

I don't know matplotlib well enough (yet) to know what the change would
consist of.

I suggest you take a look at the beautiful tikz manual:
http://pgf.sourceforge.net/pgf_CVS.pdf

The arrows.meta on page 201–212 are really well-designed and beautiful.

Compare this with matplotlib's custom arrows:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16968007/custom-arrow-style-for-matplotlib-pyplot-annotate

How do I make tikz's arrowheads available for all backends?



On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:

> On 2015/05/13 12:39 AM, Neil Girdhar wrote:
> > TikZ is an extremely well-designed library for generating professional
> > figures within the cumbersome TeX framework.  Currently, my work flow is
> > to generate TikZ code using Python.  The TikZ is compiled into PDFs,
> > which are then included in my LaTeX files.  I would like to work
> > entirely in Python.
> >
> > This means that I want to incorporate TikZ's features into matplotlib.
> > I want to start with custom pgf arrowheads.  Will this be possible.
> > What is the process from feature idea to pull request that I would have
> > to go through?
>
> You're on the right track by raising the idea here.  Depending on how
> complicated the idea is, the next step after some mailing list
> discussion could be either a MEP or a PR; but personally I would prefer
> to get a better picture of what you are talking about via this mailing
> list first.
>
> Are you talking about adding high-level functionality that would be
> applicable to all backends?  Can you give an example of what sorts of
> changes would be required in mpl, and what they would accomplish?
>
> Eric
>
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Neil
>
>
>
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