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Generating figures

We want to have figures with latex annotations. One way to do this is:

  • Generate a figure using matplotlib and save it using

    fig.savefig("example.pgf", backend="pgf", transparent=True)

  • Generate a standalone pdf from the pgf using

    tectonic standalone.tex
    with
    standalone.tex
    \documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\input{example.pgf}
\end{document}

  • Convert the pdf to svg

    pdf2svg example.pdf example.svg
    On fedora we need to dnf install pdf2svg.

  • And add the figure as follows

Image title

See the generate-example-figure target in misc/figures/Makefile.