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>>>>> "Darren" == Darren Dale <dd...@co...> writes:
 Darren> I'm guessing TeX will meet most layout needs. For example,
 Darren> I just discovered the \over command, which will generate
 Darren> fractions in TeX and LaTeX. \frac only works for LaTeX. I
 Darren> will make tex/latex an rc param if you want. Let me know.
frac was the only use case I thought important. If over can do it I
am fine leaving it as TeX. We can generalize later if need be.
JDH

On Tuesday 24 May 2005 5:27 pm, you wrote:
> >>>>> "Darren" =3D=3D Darren Dale <dd...@co...> writes:
>
> Darren> This is expected behavior for PSfrag. You should instead
> Darren> wrap \includegraphics in either a \resizebox or a
> Darren> \scalebox to rescale the text with the figure.
>
> Can you do this?
Yes. backend_latex writes this command to the .tex file, hopefully to guide=
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users on how to scale their images:
\scalebox{1}{\includegraphics{<myfile.eps>}}
>
> Darren> It looks like tex_demo.py, without caching, takes about
> Darren> 30% longer with LaTeX than it does for Tex (3 seconds vs
> Darren> 2.3 seconds on my computer). So CVS is back to using
> Darren> TeX. We may want to include a link (or a copy) of this pdf
> Darren> on the MPL website:
> Darren> http://www.csit.fsu.edu/~mimi/tex/tex-refcard.pdf, the
> Darren> source declares it to be freely distributed.
>
> Can tex|latex be an rc param?
I'm guessing TeX will meet most layout needs. For example, I just discovere=
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the \over command, which will generate fractions in TeX and LaTeX. \frac on=
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works for LaTeX. I will make tex/latex an rc param if you want. Let me know.
Darren

>>>>> "Darren" == Darren Dale <dd...@co...> writes:
 Darren> This is expected behavior for PSfrag. You should instead
 Darren> wrap \includegraphics in either a \resizebox or a
 Darren> \scalebox to rescale the text with the figure.
Can you do this?
 Darren> It looks like tex_demo.py, without caching, takes about
 Darren> 30% longer with LaTeX than it does for Tex (3 seconds vs
 Darren> 2.3 seconds on my computer). So CVS is back to using
 Darren> TeX. We may want to include a link (or a copy) of this pdf
 Darren> on the MPL website:
 Darren> http://www.csit.fsu.edu/~mimi/tex/tex-refcard.pdf, the
 Darren> source declares it to be freely distributed.
Can tex|latex be an rc param?
JDH

On Tuesday 17 May 2005 6:44 pm, John Hunter wrote:
> The LaTeX backend generates a *.eps file and a *.tex file. You can
> then latex and dvips the tex file to get a true ps, or just embed the
> generated latex commands directly into your document. This uses latex
> for all text elements, giving a unified font look and feel.
>
> Here is an example
>
> > python examples/tex_demo.py -dLaTeX
> > latex tex_demo.tex
> > dvips -o tex_demo.ps tex_demo.dvi
> > ggv tex_demo.ps
>
> There are a few problems
>
> * the page width and figure placement in the latex document are off
> center
Maybe not. If you use a latex centering environment, I think the figure is=
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centered. Even in a centering environment, it may still appear to be off=20
center, since the axes+labels may not have been centered in the figure wind=
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in the first place. =20
> * the text color is not being respected
=46ixed in cvs.
> * to get the width and height of the string, I tex the individual
> strings separately, run dvips on them, and get the bounding box
> from the generated file. This all happens with caching in
> matplotlib.texmanager. Right now the fontsize is being ignored in
> this process so the layout will be off for nonstandard font sizes
> -- anything other than the default design size of latex which
> defaults to 10pt I think.
This really is fixed now, for both horizontal and vertical alignment.
> * the text doesn't scale right if you provide a size arg to
> includegraphics, eg [width=3D4.in]
This is expected behavior for PSfrag. You should instead wrap \includegraph=
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in either a \resizebox or a \scalebox to rescale the text with the figure.=
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It looks like tex_demo.py, without caching, takes about 30% longer with LaT=
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than it does for Tex (3 seconds vs 2.3 seconds on my computer). So CVS is=20
back to using TeX. We may want to include a link (or a copy) of this pdf on=
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the MPL website: http://www.csit.fsu.edu/~mimi/tex/tex-refcard.pdf, the=20
source declares it to be freely distributed.
Darren

Hi,
I made a suggestion for improving imshow performance for plotting an
image already in byte string form a while ago; some of the results are
currently in CVS. I seems that other changes made to CVS at the same
time or since mean that the floating point buffer source code is now
much faster and I'd suggest taking anything sourced from my code back
out.
Nick