Indeed, TikZ is great to create beautiful-looking plots! A friend of mine is quite good at it, e.g. look at Figure 2 in [1] and Figure 2.1 (p. 18) in [2]. For complex figures, though, I find that TikZ can be a bit hard to master and sometimes results in longer compilation times.

[1] http://www.hrzn.ch/publications/tf-icnp15.pdf [2] http://www.hrzn.ch/publications/thesis.pdf

Indeed, they're pretty cool (although in my experience the resulting TikZ code sometimes slows down compilation quite a bit).

I'm sorry ! It has been online for 4 years now, I simply never thought of sharing...

It's not exactly what you want, but you can do parametrized plots in TikZ to plot a given function for some range: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/parameterized-plots/.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone wrote a tool that allows you to use a reference to an equation as the function to plot :).

Indeed, I remember having to switch to Agg for this reason but can't remember why I switched back. Maybe some rendering issues I had with Agg, not sure...

That's a great point! Templates are a great tool to generate big tables from results, I usually do that for most of the results in my papers, makes it easier to have the odd copy/paste error. I might add this to the tips and tricks, thanks!

It takes a while to get the "muscle memory" of adding a new line after each sentence but it does make things much easier!

Looks awesome, thanks for sharing!

Indeed, sorry about that!

Oops, I forgot to erase that when shortening the title, sorry! Not sure I can update it now :(...