mpltikztext

Saving Matplotlib figures so that all text becomes a TikZ overlay. This allows for easy customization of the text on the LaTeX side. Nominally for use with the LaTeX style nmd/nmd-graphics from my personal document class, though it only depends on a few lines of that, specifically the tikzoverlay* environment.

Installation

Assuming you are using Python 3, do:

python3 -m pip install -U https://github.com/NathanDunfield/mpltikztext/archive/master.zip

Examples and testing

Download the source code zipfile and in the resulting directory do:

cd examples
python3 sine_wave.py
pdflatex sine_wave.tex
python3 scatter.py
pdflatex scatter.tex

See the above Python and TeX files for more on usage.

Fun feature

Each TikZ overlay generated includes a scope where the coordinates are the native ones with respect to the data plotted. This is potentially useful for adding on annotations or whatever in TeX without firing up matplotlib.

License

Copyright Nathan Dunfield, 2014-present. Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.