publib 0.1.4

Produce publication-level quality images on top of Matplotlib

Publib

Produce publication-level quality images on top of Matplotlib

For similar librairies, see seaborn, which also add neat high-end API to Matplotlib function calls.

Use

At the beginning of the script, call:

set_style()

After each new axe is plotted, call:

buff_style()

Note that importing publib will already load the default style.

A couple more styles (‘poster’, ‘article’) can be selected with the function set_style()

Because some matplotlib parameters cannot be changed before the lines are plotted, they are called through the function buff_style() which:

• changes the minor ticks

• remove the spines

• turn the legend draggable by default

Examples

#!/usr/bin/env python
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import publib
a = np.linspace(0,6.28)
plt.plot(a,np.cos(a))   # plotted by publib 'default' style
plt.show()

publib.set_style('article')
plt.plot(a,a**2)
publib.buff_style('article')
plt.show()