Source code for helpers.plot_helper

import matplotlib as mpl
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from distutils.spawn import find_executable

default_mpl_params = mpl.rcParams.copy()


[docs] def figsize(textwidth, scale, ratio): """ Get figsize. Args: textwidth (str): Textwdith in your LaTeX file in points scale (float): The width of the figure relative to the textwidth ratio (float): The height of the figure relative to its width Returns: list: Width and height of the figure to be passed to matplotlib """ fig_width_pt = textwidth # Get this from LaTeX using \the\textwidth inches_per_pt = 1.0 / 72.27 # Convert pt to inch fig_width = fig_width_pt * inches_per_pt * scale # width in inches fig_height = fig_width * ratio # height in inches fig_size = [fig_width, fig_height] return fig_size
[docs] def figsize_by_journal(journal, scale, ratio): # pragma: no cover """ Get figsize for specific journal. If you supply a text height, we will rescale the figure to fit on the page instead of the parameters supplied. Args: journal (str): Name of journal scale (float): The width of the figure relative to the textwidth ratio (float): The height of the figure relative to its width Returns: list: Width and height of the figure to be passed to matplotlib """ # store text width in points here, get this from LaTeX using \the\textwidth textwidths = { 'JSC_beamer': 426.79135, 'Springer_Numerical_Algorithms': 338.58778, 'JSC_thesis': 434.26027, 'TUHH_thesis': 426.79135, } # store text height in points here, get this from LaTeX using \the\textheight textheights = { 'JSC_beamer': 214.43411, 'JSC_thesis': 635.5, 'TUHH_thesis': 631.65118, } assert ( journal in textwidths.keys() ), f"Textwidth only available for {list(textwidths.keys())}. Please implement one for \"{journal}\"! Get the textwidth using \"\\the\\textwidth\" in your tex file." # see if the figure fits on the page or if we need to apply the scaling to the height instead if scale * ratio * textwidths[journal] > textheights.get(journal, 1e9): if textheights[journal] / scale / ratio > textwidths[journal]: raise ValueError( f"We cannot fit figure with scale {scale:.2f} and ratio {ratio:.2f} on the page for journal {journal}!" ) return figsize(textheights[journal] / (scale * ratio), 1, ratio) return figsize(textwidths[journal], scale, ratio)
[docs] def setup_mpl(font_size=8, reset=False): if reset: mpl.rcParams.update(default_mpl_params) # Set up plotting parameters style_options = { # setup matplotlib to use latex for output "font.family": "serif", "font.serif": [], # blank entries should cause plots to inherit fonts from the document "font.sans-serif": [], "font.monospace": [], # "axes.labelsize": 8, # LaTeX default is 10pt font. "axes.linewidth": 0.5, "font.size": font_size, # "legend.fontsize": 6, # Make the legend/label fonts a little smaller "legend.numpoints": 1, # "xtick.labelsize": 6, "xtick.major.width": 0.5, # major tick width in points "xtick.minor.width": 0.25, # "ytick.labelsize": 6, "ytick.major.width": 0.5, # major tick width in points "ytick.minor.width": 0.25, "lines.markersize": 4, "lines.markeredgewidth": 0.5, "grid.linewidth": 0.5, "grid.linestyle": '-', "grid.alpha": 0.25, "figure.subplot.hspace": 0.0, "savefig.pad_inches": 0.01, } mpl.rcParams.update(style_options) if find_executable('latex'): latex_support = { "pgf.texsystem": "pdflatex", # change this if using xetex or lautex "text.usetex": True, # use LaTeX to write all text "pgf.preamble": r"\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}" r"\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}" r"\usepackage{underscore}" r"\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,marvosym}", } else: latex_support = { "text.usetex": False, # use LaTeX to write all text } mpl.rcParams.update(latex_support) plt.close('all')
[docs] def newfig(textwidth, scale, ratio=0.6180339887): plt.clf() fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=figsize(textwidth, scale, ratio)) return fig, ax
[docs] def savefig(filename, save_pdf=True, save_pgf=True, save_png=True): if save_pgf and find_executable('latex'): plt.savefig('{}.pgf'.format(filename), bbox_inches='tight') if save_pdf: plt.savefig('{}.pdf'.format(filename), bbox_inches='tight') if save_png: plt.savefig('{}.png'.format(filename), bbox_inches='tight') plt.close()