6 - make dash length available
8 - SlantFont & Co support
9 - keep an eye on PEP 324 (popen 5): it could make the texrunner much easier
10 - messageparser for replaced fontsizes: Warning
11 - messageparser for size differences at the end: Warning not Exception
12 - messageparser for overfull/underfull vbox/hbox: Warning not Exception
13 - newline removal when not disturbing texmessages only
15 - common bboxes for different graphs
16 - 3d graphs, circular graphs
17 - axis painter labelattrs=None + automatic axis partitioning leads to no valid partitioning
18 - default titles of the data should try to be valid TeX expressions (handle "_" etc.)
19 - when all titles are None, a graph key currently raises an exception
20 - translatecanvas should be the default in graph.style.symbol
21 - graph.style and graph.data modules
22 - exceptions in drawsymbol & friends...
23 - fix docu (or code) of gridattrs functionality of axis painters
24 (how can one, e.g. draw a grid at the ticks and not at the subticks)
26 - use csv module (new in 2.3)
27 - Check for "inf" and "nan" in datafiles.
28 (When plotted, the graph does not complain, but the postscript will be broken)
30 - add styles using curves instead of lines
31 - add "steps" style for histogram-like plots
33 - finish multi page PostScript output
34 - contructor should only take a texrunner keyword argument
38 - style and color module:
39 - support modification of existing styles via __call__
41 - height -> getheight, ...
43 - might be moved into the graph
44 - perform calc by means of Python itself (see eval code in graph.data, but
45 we should use compiled code instead of eval)
47 - support single-character mode
49 - should split also allow the user to pass arclens (instead of params)
50 - there are many occurences of 1e-5 left. Should they be replaced by the global _epsilon,
51 which would change the constructors to epsilon=None... if epsilon is None: epsilon=_epsilon
53 - what should we do for palette when only one entry
55 - is the early conversion with unit.topt unit-modification-save?
57 - better names for the helper functions ?
58 - why does smoothed through away short normpathitems instead of simply ignoring them?
60 - clearly distingish between readers and writers. dvifile, epsfile, etc. might
61 be renamed to dvireader, epsreader ...
67 - more details in path constructor: allowed pathels, first pathel...
73 Attributes (clearing merging ) and changeable attributes should be
74 explained at a central place.
75 - section titles: "Axes" -> "Axes - module axis" or similar
77 - linealign and circlealign
79 update length constructor description (strings are no longer supported, etc.)
82 - describe creation and modification (inplace and ``modify by new'') of
88 - EPS header fixed (reported by Russell Lang, cf. bug #1065099)
90 - use CURDIR instead of PWD (reported by David M. Cooke, bug #1070285)
92 - support windows line endings (patch by Hans-Andreas Engel, cf. bug #1071160)
94 - line attributes handling fixed (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
95 - fix typos in predefined symbols (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
96 - cut column name list at the max. number of columns (reported by Arnd Baecker)
98 - add INDEX and README files to distribution
99 - new errorbar and julia example
101 - pdf snippets for tipa based phonetic transliterations
106 - new module for inclusion of bitmap images
108 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
109 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
111 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
112 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
113 - enlarge was misspelled as enlarged
114 - renamed _bbox -> bbox_pt
115 - new bbox method center, which returns the coordinates of the center
117 - enlarge and enlarged do no longer interprete unqualified lengths as
120 - unit.cm, unit.t_cm, etc. are no longer sub classes but instances
122 - never convert implicitly into visual/width, etc. lengths (this is more
123 about usage of the unit module in various other modules) (TODO: update
125 - support for string initialization removed
126 - support for initialisation with other length removed
127 - lengths can now be divided by other lengths (as suggested by Michael Gruber
128 and Magnus Lie HHetland)
130 - postpone reading of fontmap files until TeX/LaTeX is started
131 - sign of font number in dvifile (reported by Michael Gruber)
134 - added new classes page and document for multipage PostScript output
135 - apply deformers (instead of trafos) in draw method
137 - decrease interval for dotted and dash-dotted lines for better visual
139 - setup.py and distribution:
140 - create siteconfig on install to store positions of the shared data
143 - graph style + data reorganization
144 - modularization of the graph styles by separating data handling and drawing tasks
145 - several graph styles can now be combined together
146 - graph data can internally now combine different data sources
147 (by that, some nasty side effects could have been removed)
148 - enum -> num renaming
149 - allow for horizontally and vertically centered graph key alignment and a key background
150 - fix bug that graph was not finished automatically when a bbox was specified
151 manually (reported by David Barton)
153 - pathel -> pathitem, etc. renaming
154 - methods accepting a parameter value / arc length now also allow the user to
155 pass a tuple (subpath, param) / (subpath, arclen)
156 - normpath constructor no longer accepts a path or normpath as argument but only a list
157 of normsubpaths. Use the new normpath method of the path instead to construct a normpath
159 - normsubpath can now deal with short (i.e. shorter than epsilon) segments correctly
160 - the intersect and split methods of normpath and normsubpath have been completely rewritten and
161 now take the accuracy epsilon correctly into account. Note that for a closed subpath the
162 split function now returns the segment containing the closing point as first element
163 in the result list (before, it was returned as last element).
164 - normsubpathitems and normsubpath now implement much more methods also provided by
165 path and normpath instances
166 - normpath.append no longer accepts pathitems but only normsubpaths
167 - deformer module: new
168 - moved cycloid and smoothed from deco into deformer
170 - handle "BoundingBox: (atend)" (cf. bug #945621 reported by Jim Boyle)
171 - kpsearch option to search for file using the kpathsea library (contributed by Michael Gruber)
173 - PSCmd and PSOp are now joined in a new class canvasitem
175 - decorated path no longer allows modification of its path
176 - new method excluderange which allows to remove certain parameter ranges from the stroked path
177 - additional canvas provided by decorated path is now called ornaments
178 - constriction=None now indicates an arrowhead without constriction
180 - trafos are now deformers
182 - a bunch of bargraph examples have been added
187 - fix errorbar range adjustment
188 - fix empty tick lists bug (reported by Marko Vendelin, cf. bug #977323)
189 - graph/style module:
190 - symbolline drawing order in graph key (cf. bug #990687)
192 - access to builtin list (reported by Marcus Mendenhall, cf. bug #1042458)
197 - fix drawing with background
198 - fix insertion of a zero length path when the whole line is outside
199 the valid axis range (reported by Marko Vendelin)
201 - include source for faq and manual
202 - distribute the pdf instead of postscript (manual, faq, examples)
207 - fixed title=None + graph key issue reported by Gabriel Vasseur
208 - graph.axis.painter.plain -> graph.axis.painter.regular
209 (as it was in parts of the documentation already)
210 - changeable-gridattrs-become-None-bug fixed
211 - graph style cutting outside lines (double-)fixed
215 - fixes missing install of the graph and axis directories introduced in 0.6
216 - some minor updates to the faq
221 - reorganisation of the graph structure finished (there might be some
222 small pending issues, but the basic restructuring is done with this release):
223 - graph splitted into several modules in pyx/graph and pyx/graph/axis
224 - painters are using the new attribute scheme including changeable
226 - graph styles rewrite
228 - axis zeropath feature has been removed
229 - mergelabels removed; linpart doesn't have a label argument anymore
230 - names and texts removed from baraxis
231 - iteration on graph style, when it is used several times in the same graph
232 - symbols + lines -> symbollines; symbols do not allow setting lineattrs,
233 and lines not symbolattrs
234 - manual line clipping (do not include unneeded line segments when the
235 axis range is set manually etc.)
236 - automatic file key titles
237 - graph.data now also includes the old data module
238 - data.list adds (by default) a line number like data.file
239 (thus regular columns are counted from 1)
241 - added new pathels multilineto_pt and multicurveto which allows to specify
242 a list of points and can thus be much more efficient
243 - internal methods return coordinates in pts
244 - arclentoparam returns only parameters not total length
245 - added path.arclength_pt, path.at_pt, path.begin_pt, path.end_pt (and
246 correspondingly for normpath)
247 - complete refactoring of the normpath class: normpaths now consist of
248 normsubpaths which themselves consist of normlines and normcurves This is
249 much more convenient for any routines working with normpaths.
250 - reversing of closed sub paths does not change the first point of the sub
252 - renamed: arclength -> arclen
253 - renamed: lentopar -> arclentoparam
254 - renamed: glue -> joined
255 - normpath now supports join, the in-place version of joined
256 - path and normpath method raise exception instead of returning None
257 when parameter is out of range
258 - the accuracy epsilon can now only be specified in normpath and normsubpath
259 constructor and no longer in arguments of path and normpath methods
260 - negative parameters are no longer supported in path and normpath methods
261 - path and normpath methods which accept parameter value param now
262 alternatively accept an arc length
266 - arrow heads are no longer stroked (as suggested by Magnus Lie Hetland)
268 - writeEPSfile deprecates writetofile
269 - internally, write methods are renamed in outputPS
270 - canvas constructor no longer accepts variable argument list but
271 expects a list of attrs as first argument (defaulting to []) and
272 a texrunner as second argument (defaulting to text.defaulttexrunner)
273 - set, draw, stroke and fill no longer return self, i.e., the canvas, but None
275 - added inplace add (__iadd__), enlarge and transform methods
276 - callers use inplace add where possible now (yielding a considerable
278 - "undefined" corners of bounding boxes are no longer supported which makes
279 the bounding box operations much more efficient.
281 - renamed _xxx -> xxx_pt
283 - removed showbbox argument of epsfile class
285 - default handling of texmessages as in the new attribute scheme
286 - multiple insert bug fixed
287 - made left, right, width, height, depth information available (x length
288 not taking into account box transformations)
289 - ignore tex message "Please type a command or say `\\end'"
290 - added textboxes that are sequentially filled (experimental)
292 - mandel.py (contributed by Stephen Phillips)
294 - length comparision (David Beach)
298 - switched to the new parser using pythons parser module
300 - removed, it all lives in the graph.data module now, while before it
301 was splitted into two separate modules
303 - not imported by default anymore
304 - obsolete warning when importing this module
308 - include missing c-files for optional extension modules
310 - fix unpaired BeginProcSet/EndProcSet in font enconding
313 - setup.py and distribution:
314 - allow customization of the extension modules built (via setup.cfg)
315 - disable building pykpathsea module by default
316 - more detailed description of install process in INSTALL
317 - provide more information and pointers to other files in README
318 - include example data files in distribution (suggested by Andrea Riciputi)
319 - force dvips to write ps files instead of printing them (suggested by Otto Tronarp)
320 - includ pyxfaq.pdf in distribution
322 - improved is-readable test for lfs files and pyx.def file
323 - explicitly quit (La)TeX in cleantmp (helps when quitting with <Ctrl>C)
324 - showwaitfortex implemented following a suggestion by Fernando Perez
325 (waitfortex is increased to 60 seconds now)
326 - support of TeX extension --ipc for reading dvi results while TeX keeps running
327 - configurable font mapping files (via pyxrc or parameter of the texrunner constructor)
328 - markers to get access to positions within TeX expressions
329 - fix: allow for e-tex in texmessage.start (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
330 - fix: print warning at syntax errors in font mapping file and continue (cf. bug #795271)
331 - remove limitation on number of fonts in dvi file
332 - added native virtual font support
333 - dvicopy support not needed anymore (it is still available, but obsolete and
334 removed from the documentation)
335 - do not include too many glyphs in the eps file
336 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
337 - dvifile module (NEW):
338 - separated from the text module
339 - dvifile class returns standard pyx canvas instances on readpage
341 - removed manualpart and partitioners mix keyword
342 - results of the splitting at "=" in graph.function were not stripped
343 - skip title=None in key (cf. bug #821284), properly align a single key entry
344 - another (the last?!) axis redesign: axispos -> class of its own
345 - some axispos name have changed slightly (zeroline -> zeropath etc.)
346 - tick/data-vmin/vmax removed
349 - minor enhancements in exponentionaltexter
350 - axes alongs paths including a set of examples
351 - mixing a partitioner and manual ticks by two distinct keyword arguments now
352 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
353 - part -> parter renaming
355 - stroke, fill, draw, set and insert do no longer accept variable length argument lists but
356 an attribute list as last argument
357 - stroke and fill now support trafos (TODO: documentation)
358 - uppercase version of a4, a3, ... paperformats
360 - new module for loading PyX configuration information
362 - automatically import main modules into pyx namespace as suggested by Fernando
365 - check for sorting of parameter list passed to path.split method
366 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
368 - contains decoratedpath and decorators from canvas module
369 - all predefined decorators are instances now (deco.stroked is thus ok) and
370 attributes have to be passed explicitely, e.g., deco.earrow.small(attrs=color.rgb.red)
371 and deco.stroked([color.rgb.blue])
372 - style module (NEW):
373 - contains all line- and fillstyles which formerly had been defined in the canvas module
374 - dash now supports relative dash lengths (as suggested by Otto Tronarp)
376 - fixed incorrect handling of - (for instance -x**2 was not negative)
378 - contents have been moved to the (obsolete) tex module, which was the only user anyhow, and
379 the module itself was removed
381 - new fallback solution in pure python
382 - bugfix: pyxadapt.h needs to open files binary under Windows (reported by Gary Pajer)
384 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
386 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
390 - "in" to "inch" in paperformats
392 - fix pyx.def hack occuring whenever \ProcessOptions* was used by a package
394 - implement different file formats for Python version of module
396 - python fallback solution should behave the same way as c extension module (closes SF bug #799182 reported
397 by Marcus Mendenhall)
399 - added "connector" to __all__
403 - separate texter out of the axispainter
404 - axis/partitioner/texter/painter/axispos redesign & interfaces
405 - tick.text is renamed to tick.label
406 - ticks and labels are renamed to tickpos/tickdist and labelpos/labeldist in partitioning
407 - ticks can be used in the part to mix a partitioner with some manual ticks
408 -> manualpart and the mix technique is not needed anymore
409 (both things are still available and working, but they will be removed in the future)
410 - _ensurefrac is implemented inside the frac constructor now; initialization is possible by:
411 - a (enum, denom) tuple now (previously there were two arguments)
412 - a string (as before via _ensurefrac)
413 - exponential strings are allowed as well (e.g. "1e10" etc.)
414 - a float (precision is determined by floatprecision -- the number of decimal places)
419 - reset() method for the texrunner
420 - automatic restart of a TeX instance with the same preamble (preamble changes are not possible)
421 - texmessage.loadfd for accepting font description loading
422 - don't bail out on width_index == 0, but mark character invalid instead
424 - support for specials; pyxgraphics flag
425 - support psfonts.map: font names, font encodings
426 - bugfix \def\ProcessPyXBox -> \long\def\ProcessPyXBox
427 - improved lfs handling
429 - full documentation via doc strings
431 - some preliminary version
433 - multiple radii (up to two per point) and softnesses
434 - ensurecenter added --- do we always force the creation of a center?
436 - lentopar methods added including some tests
438 - new parameter bbox allows to override the bounding box of the eps file
442 - derive TFMError and DVIError correctly from exceptions.Exception
443 - close files and pipes, if they are no longer used (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
444 - remove DeprecationWarning in Python 2.3 (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
446 - correct rounding algorithm (Michael Schindler)
448 - refer to the graphs texrunner instead of the defaulttexrunner (cf. #728209)
449 - rounding towards zero bugfix in autolinpart
450 - log axis range rating bugfix
452 - addarg bugs (#738724)
454 - fix mixing up of height and width in scale calculation
455 - and various other fixer here and there
459 - fix bug in dvi rule code where width was height
460 - fix preamble attribute checking bug
461 - fix texmessage.load pattern search instead of pattern match bug
462 - renamed vbox to parbox (was done in 0.3 partially only)
464 - allow for tuples in arguments of the data class
465 - convenience: exchanged order of named parameters in data.data
467 - convenience: allow for part=None in _axis (base of linaxis and logaxis)
469 - added a latex example (requested)
470 - added a attributechange example (requested)
471 - added back the integral example (requested; prior PyX 0.3 it was part of the user manual)
472 - small change in vector example (allow for the access to the texrunner)
473 - examples included in source distribution
475 - correct arrow template calculation for very short paths
479 - new easy to use example generation (will hopefully lead to nice examples)
481 - new module for handling of convex polygons (taken out of the graph module)
483 - new module containing a collection of helper functions (taken out of the graph module)
484 - moved the attrlist into helper -- as plain functions; attrlist becomes obsolete
486 - new module: a new and preferable integration of TeX/LaTeX
488 - strip glyphs from pfa/pfb-fonts
489 - there is a C implementation taken from pdftex
490 - fallback solution via an external program (pfb2pfa)
492 - (partial) C binding to libkpathsea
493 - fallback solution via an external program (kpsewhich)
495 - removed some code duplication (various axis painters)
496 - use text module instead of the obsolete tex module
497 - allow for tailing zeros of automatic generated labels
498 - allow for missing data in bar graphs -> skipmissing parameter
499 - remove the support for variables given as keyword arguments in data constructor
500 - use context instead of extern for extern variables and functions
501 - graph keys; titles in data/function/etc.
503 - new classes for visual and width lengths, aliases for user length (u_pt = pt)
504 - all length classes have now by default a quantifier 1 (instead of 0), such that,
505 for instance, 5*unit.t_cm() == unit.t_cm(5)
506 - default_unit now has to be set via unit.set. For instance: unit.set(defaultunit="m").
507 - convert_to is now an internal function, which moreover does not longer accept tuples or lists
509 - new class _bbox (the former bbox) which accepts points in the constructor. This is used
510 for internal purposes.
511 - the bbox constructor now accepts user lengths in the constructor.
512 - new methods height, width, top, bottom, left, right
513 - ll & ur ???, what about ul and lr -> ugly!
514 - enlarge (was enhance) now allows selective enlargement to the left, bottom, right and top
515 - output HiResBoundingBox
516 - never reduce bbox upon output
518 - new constructor signature, more in line with rest of PyX:
519 epsfile(x, y, filename, **additional_args)
521 - removed additional column support in addcolumn; removed _addcolumn
522 - line reduction for datafile like the every parameter in gnuplot
524 - new way of PS prolog generation that writes only necessary parts
525 - added support for patterns
526 - canvas.insert() now supports arguments
527 - bbox of canvas can be specified in writetofile command explicitely
528 - writetofile does not return self anymore
529 - arrow template now uses intersection with circle to get size right
530 (as per a suggestion by Michael Schindler)
533 - changed the handling of extern functions and all variables
535 - gradient renamed to palette
537 - problem with sizefile on windows (tex module)
538 - allow for strings in graphxy's width and height; allow for width only (graph module)
539 - disable rating for labelattrs equals None (graph module)
540 - defaultstyle selection, when a list of data is provided to the plot function (graph module)
541 - traverse when adding functions as arguments of operators (mathtree module)
542 - allow for extern functions in addcolumn (data module)
543 - just one common place for the version number
544 - fix incorrect exception name MathError (path module)
545 - prevent double return of intersections for closed sub paths
550 - allow division of length by numbers
552 - new transformation: slant
553 - renamed all trafo methods to use the participle (i.e translate->translated)
554 - the name of all trafo subclasses are verbs (i.e. translation->translate)
556 - mark class renamed to symbol
557 - (text-)box distance measurement
558 - moved axis partitioning to axis and axis painter
559 - automatic axis partitioning (now officially: general cleanup, distance measurement, documentation)
561 - baraxis, baraxispainter, and bar style
563 - previously named datafile module
564 - class "_datafile" renamed to class "data"
565 - class sectionfile added
568 - extern variables and functions (support in graph.function, graph.paramfunction and data.data)
571 - deferred to Version 0.3
572 - running TeX "on the fly" is basically implemented
574 - transformation bug (#624068, trafo module)
575 - canvas transformations (canvas module???)
576 - textbox alignment (graph module)
577 - return linewidth upon calculation with linewidths (unit module)
578 - allow column number variables with several digits
580 - british and american spellings (color module, graph module)
581 - small logo modifications