narsonalin/figure_size

README

Configuration

You first need to know the the number of points in a textwidth of your latex document. To do so, add

% return the textwidth in pts:
\showthe\textwidth

to you main .tex file. It will stop and give you a number of points. Copy that in the width global variable of figure_size/__init__.py or give it to set_size every time you call it. You can the comment out above line.

Usage

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from figure_size import *

fig, ((ax1, ax2)) = plt.subplots(1,2, figsize=set_size(width, subplots=(1,2)) )
#or 
fig, ((ax1, ax2)) = plt.subplots(1,2, figsize=set_size(523.5307, subplots=(1,2)) )

The ratio between figure height and width will automatically be set to the Golden ratio. If you want to specify a different ratio, use the golden_ratio keyword:

fig, ((ax1, ax2)) = plt.subplots(1,2, figsize=set_size(width, subplots=(1,2), golden_ratio=0.8) )

To ensure that the font size in your .tex file matches the oe of your figure, use the following configuration commands:

params = {'text.usetex' : True,
      # Use 12pt font in plots, to match 12pt font in document (or use something else)
      "axes.labelsize": 12,
      "font.size"     : 12,
      # Make the legend/label fonts a little smaller
      "legend.fontsize": 11,
      "xtick.labelsize": 11,
      "ytick.labelsize": 11
      }
plt.rcParams.update(params)