LaTeX and Mathematica plot with same font/style

Question

I know there are a couple of questions with answers to this but none of them seems to work for me so I ask here. Some basic facts:

I have 1. Mac OSX 2. Very limited knowledge in Terminal (so things like --shell escape mean zero to me) 3. TeXShop 4. Mathematica 9

I would like to plot with Mathematica but use LaTeX on the plot with the same font as in the main TeX-file. I've heard some about PStools, PSfrag and so on but don't know how to install them or apply them. It would be nice with a simple line of code to do everything but with very little Terminal/command line.

EXAMPLE: As suggested in threads elsewhere I do this in Mathematica 9

plot = Plot[Sin[Exp[x]], {x, -Pi, Pi}, AxesLabel -> {"e", "s"}]
Export[NotebookDirectory[] <> "plot.eps", plot]

And then I make a new LaTeX document with the following code

\documentclass{standalone}  
\usepackage{pstool}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\begin{document}
\psfragfig{plot}{%
    \psfrag{e}{$\epsilon$}
    \psfrag{s}{$\Sigma$}}  
\end{document} 

The file plot.eps is the one I exported from Mathematica 9. The result is unfortunately not good because there's only "e" and "s" instead of $\epsilon$ and $\Sigma$ see figure!

Answer 1

Why don't you plot it directly with pgfplots?

\documentclass[border=1]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.12}
\begin{document}
  \begin{tikzpicture}
    \begin{axis}[axis lines=middle,
          xlabel=$\epsilon$,ylabel=$\Sigma$,
          every axis y label/.style=
                    {at={(axis cs:0,1.3)},anchor=south},
          every axis x label/.style={
                    at={(axis cs: 3.5,0)},anchor=west},
          xmin=-3.5,xmax=3.5,ymin=-1.3,ymax=1.3]
      \addplot[red,samples=1000,domain=-pi:pi] {sin(deg(exp(x)))};
    \end{axis}
  \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Answer 2

May I suggest that you use the same font in Mathematica and in your article? You would simply declare in the plot function of Mathematica that you want the labels to be in the same font and size of the article. Export the plot in pdf format and use LaTeX the command in your LaTeX file:

\begin{figure}
  \ifpdf
   \pdfximage width \columnwidth{plotname.pdf}
   \pdfrefximage \pdflastximage
  \else
   \includegraphics{plotname.png}
  \fi
\end{figure}

Answer 3

I made a small package called MaTeX that makes it easy to generate figure labels for Mathematica graphics using LaTeX. A short introduction, including instructions on how to match up font styles, is available in this other StackExchange post:

• https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/76943/12