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AAVSO / VStar

VStar is a visualisation and analysis tool for variable star data brought to you by AAVSO
https://www.aavso.org/vstar
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LaTeX observation sink #296

Open dbenn opened 2 years ago

dbenn commented 2 years ago

To generate table and plot (of time, mag, err) from a subset of checkbox selected observation list columns.

dbenn commented 2 years ago

See https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/152027/plot-data-from-a-latex-table, for example.

mpyat2 commented 2 years ago

So, it will be a 'publication-ready' plot? Exciting!

dbenn commented 2 years ago

Yes, exactly! I’ve been doing a lot of LaTeX recently, both leading up to a the 2.22.0 release and for study. Also, for example, pandas can generate LaTeX tables from data frames and I'm keen to do something similar for VStar observations.

dbenn commented 1 year ago

Example LaTeX and PDF created by plugin:

dbenn commented 1 year ago

Hi @mpyat2. See the example PDF (and LaTeX) generated from the first cut of the LaTeX observation sink.

There's still work to do but it's a start. Feedback welcome.

Merry Christmas mate. :)

mpyat2 commented 1 year ago

Hi @dbenn , looks good so far!

dbenn commented 1 year ago

It may be worth considering generating observation files per series to simplify the LaTeX.

dbenn commented 3 months ago

Could also consider two plugins: one to generate a table and one to generate a plot. Instead I think that checkboxes in a single plug-in would be best.

dbenn commented 3 months ago

Also may need to allow generation of a table with ellipsis between head and tail rows, where head/tail row count is specifiable. Generating series files as mentioned above is also likely to be important.