Hi @kmundnic,
Thank you for your very detailed answer. This thread is moving away from asking a simple question to organizing my figure creation work process! 
I try to understand how you do your plotting. I do not understand, how you use Julia’s Plots.jl library. What data do you export? Only the raw data or is there plotting data encoded in the .csv file? If the first is true, where does Plots.jlget used? If the latter is true, don’t you have to retweak the example_figure.tex file everytime you change plotting settings in Julia’s Plots.jl?
Maybe, if you have time and are willing to, you could explain a bit more the content of example_figure.tex and when it needs changing.
Thanks, another time for your input!