journal-styles 1.2.0

Package for producing consistent figure dimensions for scientific journals

journal_styles

A package to design figures for scientific journals that authomatically adapt to each journal style.

Installation

Install the packagge via pip

pip install journal-styles

then run

python -m journal_styles install

In some older installations of jupyter or jupyterlab you may need to add the line

c.InlineBackend.rc = { }

in a configuration file that is typically found in

<home>/.ipython/profile_default/ipython_kernel_config.py

Otherwise the matplotlibrc parameters set by this package may be overridden.

Usage

Most users will only need the class Figure_Frame

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from journal_styles import Figure_Frame

an instance of the class for a simple figure can be initializad as

ff = Figure_Frame()

and used as

plt.figure(figsize = ff.figsize)
plt.axes(ff.rects[0])

See Figure_Frame docstring for options for more complex figures.

See the notebook examples/tutorial.ipynb in the project repository for more advanced usage.

Updating styles

python -m journal_styles update-styles

Will update the styles in the local styles directory and copy to matplotlib config directory. Run after adding or modifying journal parameters.

Uninstalling

1. Go to matplotlib configuration directory, delete matplotlibrc file and reinstate the previous matplotlibrc file. Files that have been substituted have been backupped by appending the string _backup_<time>.
2. Go to matplotlib configuration directory \stylelib and delete the undesired .mplstyle files.
3. Execute

pip uninstall journal-styles

Repository

This project is developed and maintained at https://gitlab.com/itorre/journal-styles