Testing usage of tex formatting.

libhts/libhts.py

@@ -15,7 +15,20 @@ import pandas as pd
 from scipy.stats.stats import pearsonr, linregress
 # To compute geometric mean
 from scipy.stats.mstats import gmean
+import matplotlib as mpl
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+# https://stackoverflow.com/a/42768093/1878788
+from matplotlib.backends.backend_pgf import FigureCanvasPgf
+mpl.backend_bases.register_backend('pdf', FigureCanvasPgf)
+TEX_PARAMS = {
+    "text.usetex": True,            # use LaTeX to write all text
+    "pgf.rcfonts": False,           # Ignore Matplotlibrc
+    "pgf.texsystem": "lualatex",  # hoping to avoid memory issues
+    "pgf.preamble": [
+        r'\usepackage{color}'     # xcolor for colours
+    ]
+}
+mpl.rcParams.update(TEX_PARAMS)
 import seaborn as sns
 from rpy2.robjects import r, pandas2ri, Formula, StrVector
 as_df = r("as.data.frame")
@@ -476,6 +489,7 @@ def plot_scatter(data,
                  y_range=None,
                  axes_style=None):
     fig, ax = plt.subplots()
+    # ax.set_adjustable('box')
     # First plot the data in grey
     data.plot.scatter(
         x=x_column, y=y_column,