5 - make dash length available
7 - repair PDF generation with unincluded standard fonts (currently broken)
8 - SlantFont & Co support
9 - keep an eye on PEP 324 (popen 5): it could make the texrunner much easier
10 - discuss reltransform: https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9137692&forum_id=23700
11 - add encoding; check whether encoding=ascii works well for the common existing cases
12 - we need output-specific map files (see Palatino example
13 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=14863643)
14 - write graphics driver for pgf.sty from LaTeX
15 - ignore "(Please type a command or say `\end')" in preamble method
16 - properly handle file names with spaces in (like "C:\program files\texmf\tex\latex\base\article.cls" in
19 - common bboxes for different graphs
20 - 3d graphs, circular graphs
21 - axis painter labelattrs=None + automatic axis partitioning leads to no valid partitioning
22 - when all titles are None, a graph key currently raises an exception
23 - translatecanvas should be the default in graph.style.symbol
24 - automatic scaling of y-axis according to subset of data shown on x-axis
25 - graph.axis.timeaxis.timetick must not override datetime.datetime __init__ method (since datetime.datetime
26 instances are immutable like ints)
27 - graph.style and graph.data modules
28 - fix docu of gridattrs functionality of axis painters
29 (how can one, e.g. draw a grid at the ticks and not at the subticks)
30 - make graph.style.symbol.diamond a graph.style.symbol instance (to be discussed)
32 - use csv module (new in 2.3)
33 - Check for "inf" and "nan" in datafiles.
34 (When plotted, the graph does not complain, but the output will be broken;
35 this depends on the plattform and is not only an issue within the graph system)
37 - add styles using curves instead of lines
39 - contructor should only take a texrunner keyword argument
41 - stroking of patterns does not work in PDF
42 - style and color module:
43 - support modification of existing styles via __call__
45 - ReusableStreamDecode?
46 - proper ASCII85Decode/HexDecode switch
48 - rewrite height, etc. using properties
50 - support single-character mode
52 - move helper path routines to some more generic place for paths?
53 - pdffile module needed (similar to epsfile)
55 - clearly distingish between readers and writers. dvifile, epsfile, etc. might
56 be renamed to dvireader, epsreader ...
57 - support gsave and grestore in some way to make context handling easier?
59 - support colorspace argument (like c.writeEPSfile("bla", colorspace="cmyk"))
60 - move pyx.def, lfs-files etc. into a new share directory
61 - write fakepattern.py which substitutes some of the pattern functionality using
63 - libkpathsea bindung:
64 - create a ctypes based binding to replace the extension module implementation in the long
68 - describe + vs << vs join
69 - more details in path constructor: allowed pathels, first pathel...
74 Changeable attributes should be explained at a central place.
76 - linealign and circlealign
77 - need to be redone anyway
79 styles: document what data name the styles accept (require). Try also to be more
80 userfriendly and not to describe immediately the internals of the implementation:
81 (see e.g. class.style.symbol)
82 - document interface to access tick positions
85 - add an epsfile example (suggested by Stathis Sideris)
86 - add a small example line on y="f($1)" in one of the plot examples
88 - add a plot data from list example
91 - describe creation and modification (inplace and ``modify by new'') of
96 - font and dvi modules:
97 - major reorganization
98 - TeX mapping files are a property of the writer now (TODO: documentation)
99 By that the pdfwriter now uses pdftex.map instead of psfonts.map
100 (It's also possible to pass a fontmap to a texrunners text method to use
101 different mappings within a single output file)
102 - support for font matrices (afm) for Type1 fonts
103 (using fonts without a metrics is still supported, but properly issues
105 - interface for basic TeX-less text output
106 - new PS and PDF writer options: fontstripping and textaspath (TODO: documentation)
108 - graphxyz: fix position of z4 axis
109 - canvas and document modules:
110 - auto-guess output filename from the script filename
112 - psfontmaps and pdffontmaps config options (TODO: documentation)
113 - config option for format warnings
119 - graphxyz for 3d graphs with parallel and central projection
120 - doplot method (to be called with a plotitem) to alter the plotitem order etc.
122 - new surface style for 3d graphs (colored surfaces are functional
123 (and useful!) for 2d graphs as well)
124 - new grid style for 3d graphs
126 - optional textdx/textdy columns to the text style added
127 - arrowpos parameter to the arrow style added
128 - bugfix: fromvalue axis range adjustment in histogram style
129 - bugfix: axis range adjustment in range style
131 - painter: don't insert axis title twice (thanks to Tim Gray for reporting this problem)
132 - parter: extend the logarithmic parter to calculate automatic partitions for huge ranges
133 (TODO: documentation of the new autoexponent parameter) (suggested by Dominic Ford)
134 - fix: range rating was not taken into account due in the 0.9 release
136 - list class was renamed to points; deprecation warning added
137 for instance creation, but inheritance from list failes
140 - internal helper module for efficient handling of triangular colored meshs
142 - renamed: palette->gradient, functionpalette->functiongradient, linearpalette->lineargradient
143 - new class palette representing a discrete ordered list of colors
144 - support transparency for filling/stroking in pdf separately
145 - transparency support for postscript as available by means of a proprietary
146 ghostscript extension (for ps2pdf)
148 - add multichangeattr to perform a select on different changeable attributes
149 depending on the selects total number
152 - add missing glyph traversal in t1seacs updatepath
154 - support zero-length normsubpaths
156 - don't change order of attrs passed to canvas constructor in place
157 - added __truediv__ methods according to PEP 238
161 - most important changes (to be included in the release notes):
162 - mathtree removal (warning about integer division)
163 - barpos style does not build tuples for nestedbar axes automatically
164 - new deformers for path manipulation (for smoothing, shifting, ... paths)
166 - new framework for font handling
167 - own implementation of type1 font stripping (old pdftex code fragments removed)
168 - complete type1 font command representation and glyph path extraction from font programs
169 - t1code extension module (C version of de-/encoding routines used in Type 1 font files)
173 - mathtree removal: more flexibility due to true python expressions
174 - default style instantiation bug (reported by Gregory Novak)
176 - automatic subaxis tuple creation removed in barpos (create tuples
177 in expressions now; subnames argument removed since it became pointless;
178 adujstaxis became independend from selectstyle for all styles now)
179 - remove multiple painting of frompath in histogram and barpos styles
180 - fix missing attribute select when using a bar style once only (reported by Alan Isaac)
181 - fix histograms for negative y-coordinates (reported by Dominic Ford, bug #1492548)
182 - fix histogram to stroke lines to the baseline for steps=0 when two subsequent values are equal
183 - add key method for histogram style (reported by Hagemann, bug #1371554)
184 - implement a changebar style
185 - graph, axis and style module:
186 - support for mutual linking of axes between graphs
187 - new domethods dependency handling
188 - separate axis range calculation from dolayout
189 - axis.parter module:
190 - linear and logarthmic partitioners always need lists now
191 (as it was documented all the time; renamed tickdist/labeldist
192 to tickdists/labeldists; renamed tickpos/labelpos to
193 tickpreexps/labelpreexps)
195 - patch to tickpos and vtickpos (reported by Wojciech Smigaj, cf. patch #1286112)
196 - anchoredpathaxis added (suggested by Wojciech Smigaj)
197 - properly handle range rating on inversed axis (reported by Dominic Ford, cf. bug #1461513)
198 - invalidate axis partitions with a single label only by the distance rater
199 - fallback (with warning) to linear partitioner on a small logarithmics scale
201 - patch to allow for tickattrs=None (reported by Wojciech Smigaj, cf. patch #1286116)
203 - transparency support (PDF only)
204 - conversion between colorspaces
205 - nonlinear palettes added
206 - the former palette must now be initialized as linearpalette
207 - remove min and max arguments of palettes
209 - improve escapestring to handle all ascii characters
210 - correct vshift when text size is modified by a text.size instance
211 - recover from exceptions (reported by Alan Isaac)
212 - handle missing italic angle information in tfm for pdf output (reported by Brett Calcott)
213 - allow for .def and .fd files in texmessage.loaddef (new name for
214 texmessage.loadfd, which was restricted to .fd files)
216 - correct closepath (do not invalidate currentpoint but set it to the
217 beginning of the current subpath); structural rework of pathitems
218 - calculate real bboxes for Bezier curves
219 - fix intersection due to non-linear parametrization of bezier curves
220 - add rotate methods to path, normpath, normsubpath, and normsubpathitems
221 - add flushskippedline to normsubpath
222 - add arclentoparam to normsubpath and normsubpathitems
223 - path is no longer a canvasitem
224 - reduce number of parameters of outputPS/outputPDF methods (do not pass context and registry)
226 - contains normpath, normsubpath and normpathparam which have originally
227 been in the path module
228 - return "invalid" for certain path operations when the curve "speed" is
229 below a certain threshold
230 - normpath is no longer a canvasitem
231 - reduce number of parameters of outputPS/outputPDF methods (do not pass context and registry)
233 - rewritten smoothed to make use of the subnormpath facilities
234 - rewritten parallel for arbitrary paths
236 - add basic text decorator
237 - allow arrows at arbitrary positions along the path
239 - boxdists parameter need to be a list/tuple of two items now
240 - changed the orientation of the angle parameters
242 - renamed _apply to apply_pt
243 - introduce _epsilon for checking the singularity of a trafo
245 - use rectclip instead of clip to remove the clipping path from the
246 PostScript stack, which otherwise might create strange effects for
247 certain PostScript files (reported by Gert Ingold)
249 - silently ignore TrueType fonts in font mapping files (reported by Gabriel Vasseur)
251 - accept [ and ] as separators in encoding files (reported by Mojca Miklavec, cf. bug #1429524)
253 - remove registerPS/registerPDF in favour of registering resourcing during the outputPS/outputPDF run
254 - move bbox handling to registry
255 - rename outputPS/outputPDF -> processPS/processPDF
256 - remove set method of canvas
257 - add a pipeGS method to directly pass the PyX output to ghostscript
258 - allow file instances as parameter of the writeXXXfile methods (feature request #1419658 by Jason Pratt)
260 - allow file instances as parameter of the writeXXXfile methods (feature request #1419658 by Jason Pratt)
262 - make rellength the default for dash styles
264 - switched to subversion on 2006/03/09
268 - fix bug in postscript deco code for stroking only attributes
270 - fix multicurveto._normalized
271 - fix path.paramtoarclen and path.paramtoarclen_pt
272 - remove unused method-local function
273 - fix linestyle rellength in PostScript
274 - correction to the rounding problems in circles (reported by Uwe Fabricius)
278 - issue a warning when not using a stroke color for patterns
280 - postpone PDFfontdescriptor information, since it raises an error on certain
281 fonts even when PostScript output was requested (reported by Gert Ingold)
282 - remove spurious spaces when checking for empty texmessages
284 - caching in fallback to lower system call bottleneck
286 - add missing writePSfile wrapper
287 - add *args to writeEPSfile and writePDFfile wrappers
289 - writebbox option to write bbox information (disabled by default)
290 even when a paper format is specified (PS and PDF writers only)
291 - use arclen in spring example
293 - use pdf graphic files for pdf version of the manual
294 - use PyX to create tipa fallbacks for FAQ
295 - correct description regarding the manual in the README file
299 - changed requirements to python 2.1 or newer:
300 - nested scopes are needed without fallback solution by the path module
301 (at other places fallback solutions for missing nested scopes are missing as well)
302 - use warning module for warnings
304 - path parameters and argument handling
305 - the arct to arc/arcn conversion (needed for bbox calculation and for conversion into
306 normpath) has been fixed
307 - document module: new
308 - container classes for document and pages
309 - document.paperformat class (strings are deprecated)
311 - writeEPSfile wraps a canvas in a single page document and performs the output
315 - completely rewritten: support for fonts and patterns has been added
316 - pswriter module: new
317 - separate PS output from canvas
318 - new signature of outputPS methods: writer and context are passed as additional
321 - allow selection on zero range palette (reported by Francisco Borges, cf. bug #1116257)
322 - prolog module: removed due to code reorganisation
324 - modifications on __init__.py in graph and axis subdirectories to
325 make "from pyx.graph import *" working as expected
327 - addontop added to stackedbarpos
328 - column -> columnname renaming where appropriate
329 - histogram style added
331 - function needs explicit variable definition (implicit variable definition is deprecated)
332 - column names are inherited by data.data() except when copy=0;
333 unused columns are silently ignored now
334 - dynamic function data on a logarithmic axis uses isinstance check now
335 (although it removes the only (mis)use of axis.inverse, it is a
336 temporary solution only)
338 - extend graph keys to allow for several columns
339 - axis data handling refactoring:
340 - introcuded an axis positioner (module graph.axis.positioner)
341 - introduced anchoredaxis to make axis data and positioning local to a graph
342 - linkedaxis is a special version of anchoredaxis and is generic
343 (it uses the new linkpainter provided by an axis)
344 - unification of split and bar axes;
345 removed some black magic in baraxis in favor of a nestedbar axis
346 - x linked to x2 etc. is now possible
347 - axis.inverse was removed (the only place it was (mis)used was by a function)
349 - allow to transform axis after layout
350 - [xy]axisat arguments in the constructor to easily move [xy]-axes
351 to a position defined the orthogonal axis
352 - remove axispos (use the axis dictionary now, since it now contains
353 anchored axis instances and those have shortcuts for the axis positioner
356 - tfm->dvi conversion rounding bugfix
357 - fix parsing of empty strings ("") in fontmap files (reported by John Owens, bug #1218983)
359 - support for halign of boxes and content of boxes (see halign example)
360 - take units xscale into account in parbox
361 - messageparser for replaced fontsizes: Warning -> implemented by texmessage.fontwarning
362 - messageparser for size differences at the end: Warning not Exception -> implemented by texmessage.fontwarning
363 - messageparser for overfull/underfull vbox/hbox: Warning not Exception -> implemented by texmessage.boxwarning
364 - dvicopy flag removed
365 - allow argument of set to be None
366 - rename nomathmode and nophantom to clearmathmode and clearphantom
367 - texmessagepattern for easy creation of simple TeX message parsers
368 - allow long file names in file checking TeX message parsers
369 - no newline removal to not disturbe TeX messages when reporting errors
370 - reworked documentation to use the python documentation standards
372 - linewidth is no longer a unit.length subclass but expects a such as first argument
374 - correct EOL handling while reading DSC's (reported by Markus Meyer)
375 - pattern module: new
376 - moved canvas.pattern to its own module together with the new PDFpattern class
377 - add some default patterns: hatched and crosshatched
379 - improve the smoothing deformer
380 - add a parallel deformer
382 - the very old tex module finally got removed completely
384 - a simple converter from dvi to EPS/PS/PDF files (dviconvert.py) has been added
385 - a simple imagine to EPS/PS/PDF converter (imgconvert.py) has been added
386 - a simple dvitype.py has been added
387 - update address of FSF all over the place
392 - EPS header fixed (reported by Russell Lang, cf. bug #1065099)
394 - use CURDIR instead of PWD (reported by David M. Cooke, bug #1070285)
396 - support windows line endings (patch by Hans-Andreas Engel, cf. bug #1071160)
398 - line attributes handling fixed (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
399 - fix typos in predefined symbols (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
400 - cut column name list at the max. number of columns (reported by Arnd Baecker)
402 - add INDEX and README files to distribution
403 - new errorbar and julia example
405 - pdf snippets for tipa based phonetic transliterations
410 - new module for inclusion of bitmap images
412 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
413 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
415 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
416 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
417 - enlarge was misspelled as enlarged
418 - renamed _bbox -> bbox_pt
419 - new bbox method center, which returns the coordinates of the center
421 - enlarge and enlarged do no longer interprete unqualified lengths as
424 - unit.cm, unit.t_cm, etc. are no longer sub classes but instances
426 - never convert implicitly into visual/width, etc. lengths (this is more
427 about usage of the unit module in various other modules) (TODO: update
429 - support for string initialization removed
430 - support for initialisation with other length removed
431 - lengths can now be divided by other lengths (as suggested by Michael Gruber
432 and Magnus Lie Hetland)
434 - postpone reading of fontmap files until TeX/LaTeX is started
435 - sign of font number in dvifile (reported by Michael Gruber)
438 - added new classes page and document for multipage PostScript output
439 - apply deformers (instead of trafos) in draw method
441 - decrease interval for dotted and dash-dotted lines for better visual
443 - setup.py and distribution:
444 - create siteconfig on install to store positions of the shared data
447 - graph style + data reorganization
448 - modularization of the graph styles by separating data handling and drawing tasks
449 - several graph styles can now be combined together
450 - graph data can internally now combine different data sources
451 (by that, some nasty side effects could have been removed)
452 - enum -> num renaming
453 - allow for horizontally and vertically centered graph key alignment and a key background
454 - fix bug that graph was not finished automatically when a bbox was specified
455 manually (reported by David Barton)
457 - pathel -> pathitem, etc. renaming
458 - methods accepting a parameter value / arc length now also allow the user to
459 pass a tuple (subpath, param) / (subpath, arclen)
460 - normpath constructor no longer accepts a path or normpath as argument but only a list
461 of normsubpaths. Use the new normpath method of the path instead to construct a normpath
463 - normsubpath can now deal with short (i.e. shorter than epsilon) segments correctly
464 - the intersect and split methods of normpath and normsubpath have been completely rewritten and
465 now take the accuracy epsilon correctly into account. Note that for a closed subpath the
466 split function now returns the segment containing the closing point as first element
467 in the result list (before, it was returned as last element).
468 - normsubpathitems and normsubpath now implement much more methods also provided by
469 path and normpath instances
470 - normpath.append no longer accepts pathitems but only normsubpaths
471 - deformer module: new
472 - moved cycloid and smoothed from deco into deformer
474 - handle "BoundingBox: (atend)" (cf. bug #945621 reported by Jim Boyle)
475 - kpsearch option to search for file using the kpathsea library (contributed by Michael Gruber)
477 - PSCmd and PSOp are now joined in a new class canvasitem
479 - decorated path no longer allows modification of its path
480 - new method excluderange which allows to remove certain parameter ranges from the stroked path
481 - additional canvas provided by decorated path is now called ornaments
482 - constriction=None now indicates an arrowhead without constriction
484 - trafos are now deformers
486 - a bunch of bargraph examples have been added
491 - fix errorbar range adjustment
492 - fix empty tick lists bug (reported by Marko Vendelin, cf. bug #977323)
493 - graph/style module:
494 - symbolline drawing order in graph key (cf. bug #990687)
496 - access to builtin list (reported by Marcus Mendenhall, cf. bug #1042458)
501 - fix drawing with background
502 - fix insertion of a zero length path when the whole line is outside
503 the valid axis range (reported by Marko Vendelin)
505 - include source for faq and manual
506 - distribute the pdf instead of postscript (manual, faq, examples)
511 - fixed title=None + graph key issue reported by Gabriel Vasseur
512 - graph.axis.painter.plain -> graph.axis.painter.regular
513 (as it was in parts of the documentation already)
514 - changeable-gridattrs-become-None-bug fixed
515 - graph style cutting outside lines (double-)fixed
519 - fixes missing install of the graph and axis directories introduced in 0.6
520 - some minor updates to the faq
525 - reorganisation of the graph structure finished (there might be some
526 small pending issues, but the basic restructuring is done with this release):
527 - graph splitted into several modules in pyx/graph and pyx/graph/axis
528 - painters are using the new attribute scheme including changeable
530 - graph styles rewrite
532 - axis zeropath feature has been removed
533 - mergelabels removed; linpart doesn't have a label argument anymore
534 - names and texts removed from baraxis
535 - iteration on graph style, when it is used several times in the same graph
536 - symbols + lines -> symbollines; symbols do not allow setting lineattrs,
537 and lines not symbolattrs
538 - manual line clipping (do not include unneeded line segments when the
539 axis range is set manually etc.)
540 - automatic file key titles
541 - graph.data now also includes the old data module
542 - data.list adds (by default) a line number like data.file
543 (thus regular columns are counted from 1)
545 - added new pathels multilineto_pt and multicurveto which allows to specify
546 a list of points and can thus be much more efficient
547 - internal methods return coordinates in pts
548 - arclentoparam returns only parameters not total length
549 - added path.arclength_pt, path.at_pt, path.begin_pt, path.end_pt (and
550 correspondingly for normpath)
551 - complete refactoring of the normpath class: normpaths now consist of
552 normsubpaths which themselves consist of normlines and normcurves This is
553 much more convenient for any routines working with normpaths.
554 - reversing of closed sub paths does not change the first point of the sub
556 - renamed: arclength -> arclen
557 - renamed: lentopar -> arclentoparam
558 - renamed: glue -> joined
559 - normpath now supports join, the in-place version of joined
560 - path and normpath method raise exception instead of returning None
561 when parameter is out of range
562 - the accuracy epsilon can now only be specified in normpath and normsubpath
563 constructor and no longer in arguments of path and normpath methods
564 - negative parameters are no longer supported in path and normpath methods
565 - path and normpath methods which accept parameter value param now
566 alternatively accept an arc length
570 - arrow heads are no longer stroked (as suggested by Magnus Lie Hetland)
572 - writeEPSfile deprecates writetofile
573 - internally, write methods are renamed in outputPS
574 - canvas constructor no longer accepts variable argument list but
575 expects a list of attrs as first argument (defaulting to []) and
576 a texrunner as second argument (defaulting to text.defaulttexrunner)
577 - set, draw, stroke and fill no longer return self, i.e., the canvas, but None
579 - added inplace add (__iadd__), enlarge and transform methods
580 - callers use inplace add where possible now (yielding a considerable
582 - "undefined" corners of bounding boxes are no longer supported which makes
583 the bounding box operations much more efficient.
585 - renamed _xxx -> xxx_pt
587 - removed showbbox argument of epsfile class
589 - default handling of texmessages as in the new attribute scheme
590 - multiple insert bug fixed
591 - made left, right, width, height, depth information available (x length
592 not taking into account box transformations)
593 - ignore tex message "Please type a command or say `\\end'"
594 - added textboxes that are sequentially filled (experimental)
596 - mandel.py (contributed by Stephen Phillips)
598 - length comparision (David Beach)
602 - switched to the new parser using pythons parser module
604 - removed, it all lives in the graph.data module now, while before it
605 was splitted into two separate modules
607 - not imported by default anymore
608 - obsolete warning when importing this module
612 - include missing c-files for optional extension modules
614 - fix unpaired BeginProcSet/EndProcSet in font enconding
617 - setup.py and distribution:
618 - allow customization of the extension modules built (via setup.cfg)
619 - disable building pykpathsea module by default
620 - more detailed description of install process in INSTALL
621 - provide more information and pointers to other files in README
622 - include example data files in distribution (suggested by Andrea Riciputi)
623 - force dvips to write ps files instead of printing them (suggested by Otto Tronarp)
624 - includ pyxfaq.pdf in distribution
626 - improved is-readable test for lfs files and pyx.def file
627 - explicitly quit (La)TeX in cleantmp (helps when quitting with <Ctrl>C)
628 - showwaitfortex implemented following a suggestion by Fernando Perez
629 (waitfortex is increased to 60 seconds now)
630 - support of TeX extension --ipc for reading dvi results while TeX keeps running
631 - configurable font mapping files (via pyxrc or parameter of the texrunner constructor)
632 - markers to get access to positions within TeX expressions
633 - fix: allow for e-tex in texmessage.start (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
634 - fix: print warning at syntax errors in font mapping file and continue (cf. bug #795271)
635 - remove limitation on number of fonts in dvi file
636 - added native virtual font support
637 - dvicopy support not needed anymore (it is still available, but obsolete and
638 removed from the documentation)
639 - do not include too many glyphs in the eps file
640 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
641 - dvifile module (NEW):
642 - separated from the text module
643 - dvifile class returns standard pyx canvas instances on readpage
645 - removed manualpart and partitioners mix keyword
646 - results of the splitting at "=" in graph.function were not stripped
647 - skip title=None in key (cf. bug #821284), properly align a single key entry
648 - another (the last?!) axis redesign: axispos -> class of its own
649 - some axispos name have changed slightly (zeroline -> zeropath etc.)
650 - tick/data-vmin/vmax removed
653 - minor enhancements in exponentionaltexter
654 - axes alongs paths including a set of examples
655 - mixing a partitioner and manual ticks by two distinct keyword arguments now
656 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
657 - part -> parter renaming
659 - stroke, fill, draw, set and insert do no longer accept variable length argument lists but
660 an attribute list as last argument
661 - stroke and fill now support trafos (TODO: documentation)
662 - uppercase version of a4, a3, ... paperformats
664 - new module for loading PyX configuration information
666 - automatically import main modules into pyx namespace as suggested by Fernando
669 - check for sorting of parameter list passed to path.split method
670 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
672 - contains decoratedpath and decorators from canvas module
673 - all predefined decorators are instances now (deco.stroked is thus ok) and
674 attributes have to be passed explicitely, e.g., deco.earrow.small(attrs=color.rgb.red)
675 and deco.stroked([color.rgb.blue])
676 - style module (NEW):
677 - contains all line- and fillstyles which formerly had been defined in the canvas module
678 - dash now supports relative dash lengths (as suggested by Otto Tronarp)
680 - fixed incorrect handling of - (for instance -x**2 was not negative)
682 - contents have been moved to the (obsolete) tex module, which was the only user anyhow, and
683 the module itself was removed
685 - new fallback solution in pure python
686 - bugfix: pyxadapt.h needs to open files binary under Windows (reported by Gary Pajer)
688 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
690 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
694 - "in" to "inch" in paperformats
696 - fix pyx.def hack occuring whenever \ProcessOptions* was used by a package
698 - implement different file formats for Python version of module
700 - python fallback solution should behave the same way as c extension module (closes SF bug #799182 reported
701 by Marcus Mendenhall)
703 - added "connector" to __all__
707 - separate texter out of the axispainter
708 - axis/partitioner/texter/painter/axispos redesign & interfaces
709 - tick.text is renamed to tick.label
710 - ticks and labels are renamed to tickpos/tickdist and labelpos/labeldist in partitioning
711 - ticks can be used in the part to mix a partitioner with some manual ticks
712 -> manualpart and the mix technique is not needed anymore
713 (both things are still available and working, but they will be removed in the future)
714 - _ensurefrac is implemented inside the frac constructor now; initialization is possible by:
715 - a (enum, denom) tuple now (previously there were two arguments)
716 - a string (as before via _ensurefrac)
717 - exponential strings are allowed as well (e.g. "1e10" etc.)
718 - a float (precision is determined by floatprecision -- the number of decimal places)
723 - reset() method for the texrunner
724 - automatic restart of a TeX instance with the same preamble (preamble changes are not possible)
725 - texmessage.loadfd for accepting font description loading
726 - don't bail out on width_index == 0, but mark character invalid instead
728 - support for specials; pyxgraphics flag
729 - support psfonts.map: font names, font encodings
730 - bugfix \def\ProcessPyXBox -> \long\def\ProcessPyXBox
731 - improved lfs handling
733 - full documentation via doc strings
735 - some preliminary version
737 - multiple radii (up to two per point) and softnesses
738 - ensurecenter added --- do we always force the creation of a center?
740 - lentopar methods added including some tests
742 - new parameter bbox allows to override the bounding box of the eps file
746 - derive TFMError and DVIError correctly from exceptions.Exception
747 - close files and pipes, if they are no longer used (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
748 - remove DeprecationWarning in Python 2.3 (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
750 - correct rounding algorithm (Michael Schindler)
752 - refer to the graphs texrunner instead of the defaulttexrunner (cf. #728209)
753 - rounding towards zero bugfix in autolinpart
754 - log axis range rating bugfix
756 - addarg bugs (#738724)
758 - fix mixing up of height and width in scale calculation
759 - and various other fixer here and there
763 - fix bug in dvi rule code where width was height
764 - fix preamble attribute checking bug
765 - fix texmessage.load pattern search instead of pattern match bug
766 - renamed vbox to parbox (was done in 0.3 partially only)
768 - allow for tuples in arguments of the data class
769 - convenience: exchanged order of named parameters in data.data
771 - convenience: allow for part=None in _axis (base of linaxis and logaxis)
773 - added a latex example (requested)
774 - added a attributechange example (requested)
775 - added back the integral example (requested; prior PyX 0.3 it was part of the user manual)
776 - small change in vector example (allow for the access to the texrunner)
777 - examples included in source distribution
779 - correct arrow template calculation for very short paths
783 - new easy to use example generation (will hopefully lead to nice examples)
785 - new module for handling of convex polygons (taken out of the graph module)
787 - new module containing a collection of helper functions (taken out of the graph module)
788 - moved the attrlist into helper -- as plain functions; attrlist becomes obsolete
790 - new module: a new and preferable integration of TeX/LaTeX
792 - strip glyphs from pfa/pfb-fonts
793 - there is a C implementation taken from pdftex
794 - fallback solution via an external program (pfb2pfa)
796 - (partial) C binding to libkpathsea
797 - fallback solution via an external program (kpsewhich)
799 - removed some code duplication (various axis painters)
800 - use text module instead of the obsolete tex module
801 - allow for tailing zeros of automatic generated labels
802 - allow for missing data in bar graphs -> skipmissing parameter
803 - remove the support for variables given as keyword arguments in data constructor
804 - use context instead of extern for extern variables and functions
805 - graph keys; titles in data/function/etc.
807 - new classes for visual and width lengths, aliases for user length (u_pt = pt)
808 - all length classes have now by default a quantifier 1 (instead of 0), such that,
809 for instance, 5*unit.t_cm() == unit.t_cm(5)
810 - default_unit now has to be set via unit.set. For instance: unit.set(defaultunit="m").
811 - convert_to is now an internal function, which moreover does not longer accept tuples or lists
813 - new class _bbox (the former bbox) which accepts points in the constructor. This is used
814 for internal purposes.
815 - the bbox constructor now accepts user lengths in the constructor.
816 - new methods height, width, top, bottom, left, right
817 - ll & ur ???, what about ul and lr -> ugly!
818 - enlarge (was enhance) now allows selective enlargement to the left, bottom, right and top
819 - output HiResBoundingBox
820 - never reduce bbox upon output
822 - new constructor signature, more in line with rest of PyX:
823 epsfile(x, y, filename, **additional_args)
825 - removed additional column support in addcolumn; removed _addcolumn
826 - line reduction for datafile like the every parameter in gnuplot
828 - new way of PS prolog generation that writes only necessary parts
829 - added support for patterns
830 - canvas.insert() now supports arguments
831 - bbox of canvas can be specified in writetofile command explicitely
832 - writetofile does not return self anymore
833 - arrow template now uses intersection with circle to get size right
834 (as per a suggestion by Michael Schindler)
837 - changed the handling of extern functions and all variables
839 - gradient renamed to palette
841 - problem with sizefile on windows (tex module)
842 - allow for strings in graphxy's width and height; allow for width only (graph module)
843 - disable rating for labelattrs equals None (graph module)
844 - defaultstyle selection, when a list of data is provided to the plot function (graph module)
845 - traverse when adding functions as arguments of operators (mathtree module)
846 - allow for extern functions in addcolumn (data module)
847 - just one common place for the version number
848 - fix incorrect exception name MathError (path module)
849 - prevent double return of intersections for closed sub paths
854 - allow division of length by numbers
856 - new transformation: slant
857 - renamed all trafo methods to use the participle (i.e translate->translated)
858 - the name of all trafo subclasses are verbs (i.e. translation->translate)
860 - mark class renamed to symbol
861 - (text-)box distance measurement
862 - moved axis partitioning to axis and axis painter
863 - automatic axis partitioning (now officially: general cleanup, distance measurement, documentation)
865 - baraxis, baraxispainter, and bar style
867 - previously named datafile module
868 - class "_datafile" renamed to class "data"
869 - class sectionfile added
872 - extern variables and functions (support in graph.function, graph.paramfunction and data.data)
875 - deferred to Version 0.3
876 - running TeX "on the fly" is basically implemented
878 - transformation bug (#624068, trafo module)
879 - canvas transformations (canvas module???)
880 - textbox alignment (graph module)
881 - return linewidth upon calculation with linewidths (unit module)
882 - allow column number variables with several digits
884 - british and american spellings (color module, graph module)
885 - small logo modifications