Installation

For some of my script to work, a LaTeX installation is required. Additionally, ghostscript is required to save the figures as .eps plots which is normally what I save them as.

Windows

Ghostscript is not normally found on a windows system. Luckily, there is a compiled binary.

1. Install from here. https://www.ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html
2. You will need to add a path. The default installation path is C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.27\bin or something similar.

Some tips

There are plenty of tutorials on the internet. But here are some tips, that I have found useful and have been hard to find

Excessive white space in figures

matplotlib creates a lot of white space around figures. I got this recipe online, and I've edited it and it seems to work.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.subplots_adjust(top=1, bottom=0, right=1, left=0, hspace =0, wspace=0)

plt.margins(0,0)

#plt.gca().xaxis.set_major_locator(plt.NullLocator())

#plt.gca().yaxis.set_major_locator(plt.NullLocator())

fig.tight_layout()

plt.show()