This is a collection of scripts, templates, and examples, which emerged over the years and which somebody else may find useful. The material is distributed under a BSD 2-clause licence.

Plotting with matplotlib

• defaults.py
  My default settings for creating figures in scientific journals.

• palette
  A colour palette inspired by the London tube maps (thanks to Olly Browning).

• smooth_plot.py
  Connect data points smoothly by a spline instead of straight lines.

• example.py
  Give a demonstration of the above stuff. The result can be found here: example.pdf

Typesetting with LaTeX

• problemset.cls
  A class to typeset problem sheets, elaborating on the exercises package by Roger Jud.

• IOP style for RevTeX 4.1
  An extension to RevTeX 4.1 to typeset manuscripts for IOP journals such as the New Journal of Physics.

Utilities

• math2png
  Convert a TeX math string to a PNG file from the command line. Bitmap resolution and math font are optional arguments.