plottools.set_publication_rc

plottools.set_publication_rc()

Sets rc parameters for creating plots suitable for publication

Notes

The computer modern fonts are not installed by default on windows. But can be downloaded at https://sourceforge.net/projects/cm-unicode/ To use new installed fonts in matplotlib you must delete the font cache file located at C:Usersyourusername.matplotlib

Examples

>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>> import numpy as np
>>> import plottools
>>>
>>> plottools.set_publication_rc()
>>> plt.plot(np.arange(10),10*np.random.random(10))
>>> plt.xlabel('x-label')
>>> plt.ylabel('y-label')
>>> plt.show()

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