PGFPlotsX
Introduction
PGFPlotsX is a Julia package to generate publication quality figures using the LaTeX library PGFPlots.
It is similar in spirit to the package PGFPlots.jl but it tries to have a very close mapping to the PGFPlots API as well as minimize the number of dependencies. The fact that the syntax is similar to the TeX version means that examples from Stack Overflow and the PGFPlots manual can easily be incorporated in the Julia code.
Documentation is a WIP but a quite extensive set of examples can be found at the PGFPlotsXExamples repo.
Installation
Pkg.add("PGFPlotsX")To show figures in svg (like is done by default in Jupyter notebooks) you need pdf2svg. On Ubuntu, you can get this by running sudo apt-get install pdf2svg and on RHEL/Fedora by running sudo dnf install pdf2svg. On Windows, you can download the binaries from here. Be sure to add pdf2svg to your path.
For saving (or showing) png figures you need pdftoppm which should be installed by default on Linux but can otherwise be downloaded here.
If you installed a new latex engine, pdf2svg or pdftoppm after you installed PGFPlotsX you need to run Pkg.build("PGFPlotsX") for this to be reflected.
Manual Outline
PGFPlotsX does not export anything. In the manual we assume that the command import PGFPlotsX; const pgf = PGFPlotsX has been run