Some TeX Developments » pgf http://www.texdev.net Coding in the TeX world Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:34:39 +0000 en hourly 1 Real life pgfplots examples http://www.texdev.net/2010/01/30/real-life-pgfplots-examples/ http://www.texdev.net/2010/01/30/real-life-pgfplots-examples/#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:45:54 +0000 Joseph Wright http://www.texdev.net/?p=622 I’ve just sent a draft to TUGBoat for an article about pgfplots. As many readers will know, pgfplots is built on pgf/Tikz, which means that it can be used for both DVI and PDF output, and with plain TeX, LaTeX and ConTeXt. In my draft, I’ve used some real life plots (from a couple of recent publications in the research group I work in). The draft will probably change a bit, but for a preview take a look a the the PDF.

]]> http://www.texdev.net/2010/01/30/real-life-pgfplots-examples/feed/ 8 pgfplots v1.3 http://www.texdev.net/2010/01/04/pgfplots-v1-3/ http://www.texdev.net/2010/01/04/pgfplots-v1-3/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:30:56 +0000 Joseph Wright http://www.texdev.net/?p=599 A new version of the very useful pgfplots package has been released. pgfplots provides a very handy interface on top of pgf/TikZ to generate print-quality plots without too much effort. As many readers will know, pgf works with both DVI and PDF output methods, making pgfplots very handy for generating plots without worrying about other content.

For me, the stand-out new feature in v1.3 of pgfplots is the ability to automatically reverse the axes. As a chemist, I need to do this as convention dictates that some types of data are displayed with the x axis running from high values to low ones. So for me not having to do this by hand is a really significant reason to upgrade. There are lots of other new features as well: I see that the manual now includes a number of 3D surface style graphs, which many people like.

If you are plotting data in TeX, the pgfplots should be very high on your list of packages to consider.

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