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 - write graphics driver for pgf.sty from LaTeX
13 - ignore "(Please type a command or say `\end')" in preamble method
14 - properly handle file names with spaces in (like "C:\program files\texmf\tex\latex\base\article.cls" in
17 - common bboxes for different graphs
18 - 3d graphs, circular graphs
19 - axis painter labelattrs=None + automatic axis partitioning leads to no valid partitioning
20 - when all titles are None, a graph key currently raises an exception
21 - translatecanvas should be the default in graph.style.symbol
22 - automatic scaling of y-axis according to subset of data shown on x-axis
23 - graph.axis.timeaxis.timetick must not override datetime.datetime __init__ method (since datetime.datetime
24 instances are immutable like ints)
25 - graph.style and graph.data modules
26 - fix docu of gridattrs functionality of axis painters
27 (how can one, e.g. draw a grid at the ticks and not at the subticks)
28 - make graph.style.symbol.diamond a graph.style.symbol instance (to be discussed)
30 - use csv module (new in 2.3)
31 - Check for "inf" and "nan" in datafiles.
32 (When plotted, the graph does not complain, but the output will be broken;
33 this depends on the plattform and is not only an issue within the graph system)
35 - add styles using curves instead of lines
36 - graph.texter module:
37 - rename period argument of decimal texters to recurring_decimal or something similar (as pointed out
40 - contructor should only take a texrunner keyword argument
42 - stroking of patterns does not work in PDF
43 - style and color module:
44 - support modification of existing styles via __call__
46 - ReusableStreamDecode?
47 - proper ASCII85Decode/HexDecode switch
48 - Support for transparent bitmaps?
50 - rewrite height, etc. using properties
52 - support single-character mode
53 - fix problem reported by Gert Ingold: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20090323081817.GA34112%40physik.uni-augsburg.de&forum_name=pyx-user
55 - move helper path routines to some more generic place for paths?
56 - pdffile module needed (similar to epsfile)
58 - clearly distingish between readers and writers. dvifile, epsfile, etc. might
59 be renamed to dvireader, epsreader ...
60 - support gsave and grestore in some way to make context handling easier?
62 - support colorspace argument (like c.writeEPSfile("bla", colorspace="cmyk"))
63 - move pyx.def, lfs-files etc. into a new share directory
64 - write fakepattern.py which substitutes some of the pattern functionality using
66 - libkpathsea bindung:
67 - create a ctypes based binding to replace the extension module implementation in the long
71 - describe + vs << vs join
72 - more details in path constructor: allowed pathels, first pathel...
77 Changeable attributes should be explained at a central place.
79 - linealign and circlealign
80 - need to be redone anyway
82 styles: document what data name the styles accept (require). Try also to be more
83 userfriendly and not to describe immediately the internals of the implementation:
84 (see e.g. class.style.symbol)
85 - document interface to access tick positions
88 - add an epsfile example (suggested by Stathis Sideris)
89 - add a small example line on y="f($1)" in one of the plot examples
93 - describe creation and modification (inplace and ``modify by new'') of
98 - font and dvi modules:
99 - major reorganization
100 - TeX mapping files are a property of the writer now (TODO: documentation)
101 By that the pdfwriter now uses pdftex.map instead of psfonts.map
102 (It's also possible to pass a fontmap to a texrunners text method to use
103 different mappings within a single output file)
104 - support for font matrices (afm) for Type1 fonts
105 (using fonts without a metrics is still supported, but properly issues
107 - interface for basic TeX-less text output
108 - new PS and PDF writer options: strip_fonts, text_as_path, mesh_as_bitmap,
109 mesh_as_bitmap_resolution (TODO: documentation)
110 - fix for commented out UniqueID
113 - fix position of z4 axis
114 - set correct errorname for z axis (thanks to Axel Freyn)
115 - fix wrong y value usage instead of z value in pos methods
116 - fallbackrange for axes with vanishing range
117 - dokeyitem method (to be called with a plotitem) to alter the key order
118 - doplot() was renamed to doplotitem(), dodata() was renamed to doplot()
119 to have similar naming conventions like for the graph key
120 - axis painter: properly rotate axis titles when ticks are not othorgonal
121 to the axis (reported by Christian Delfosse)
122 - canvas and document modules:
123 - auto-guess output filename from the script filename
124 - add ciecolor flag and input type to the pipeGS method of canvas
126 - psfontmaps and pdffontmaps config options (TODO: documentation)
127 - config option for format warnings
129 - fix two bugs in the read pipe of the texrunner (thanks to
130 Laurence Tratt and Eric Faurot)
131 - fix "<" token handling in mapping file parser (thanks to Matthew West)
132 - fix start message parse error in MiKTeX (thanks to Wojciech Jaskowski)
133 - fix rigid aux file checking (thanks to Clayton E. Myers)
135 - implement style.fillrule
137 - add support for transparent bitmaps (in postscript stencil masking only)
139 - raise correct exception (thanks to Axel Freyn)
145 - graphxyz for 3d graphs with parallel and central projection
146 - doplot method (to be called with a plotitem) to alter the plotitem order etc.
148 - new surface style for 3d graphs (colored surfaces are functional
149 (and useful!) for 2d graphs as well)
150 - new grid style for 3d graphs
152 - optional textdx/textdy columns to the text style added
153 - arrowpos parameter to the arrow style added
154 - bugfix: fromvalue axis range adjustment in histogram style
155 - bugfix: axis range adjustment in range style
157 - painter: don't insert axis title twice (thanks to Tim Gray for reporting this problem)
158 - parter: extend the logarithmic parter to calculate automatic partitions for huge ranges
159 (TODO: documentation of the new autoexponent parameter) (suggested by Dominic Ford)
160 - fix: range rating was not taken into account due in the 0.9 release
162 - list class was renamed to points; deprecation warning added
163 for instance creation, but inheritance from list failes
166 - internal helper module for efficient handling of triangular colored meshs
168 - renamed: palette->gradient, functionpalette->functiongradient, linearpalette->lineargradient
169 - new class palette representing a discrete ordered list of colors
170 - support transparency for filling/stroking in pdf separately
171 - transparency support for postscript as available by means of a proprietary
172 ghostscript extension (for ps2pdf)
174 - add multichangeattr to perform a select on different changeable attributes
175 depending on the selects total number
178 - add missing glyph traversal in t1seacs updatepath
180 - support zero-length normsubpaths
182 - don't change order of attrs passed to canvas constructor in place
183 - added __truediv__ methods according to PEP 238
187 - most important changes (to be included in the release notes):
188 - mathtree removal (warning about integer division)
189 - barpos style does not build tuples for nestedbar axes automatically
190 - new deformers for path manipulation (for smoothing, shifting, ... paths)
192 - new framework for font handling
193 - own implementation of type1 font stripping (old pdftex code fragments removed)
194 - complete type1 font command representation and glyph path extraction from font programs
195 - t1code extension module (C version of de-/encoding routines used in Type 1 font files)
199 - mathtree removal: more flexibility due to true python expressions
200 - default style instantiation bug (reported by Gregory Novak)
202 - automatic subaxis tuple creation removed in barpos (create tuples
203 in expressions now; subnames argument removed since it became pointless;
204 adujstaxis became independend from selectstyle for all styles now)
205 - remove multiple painting of frompath in histogram and barpos styles
206 - fix missing attribute select when using a bar style once only (reported by Alan Isaac)
207 - fix histograms for negative y-coordinates (reported by Dominic Ford, bug #1492548)
208 - fix histogram to stroke lines to the baseline for steps=0 when two subsequent values are equal
209 - add key method for histogram style (reported by Hagemann, bug #1371554)
210 - implement a changebar style
211 - graph, axis and style module:
212 - support for mutual linking of axes between graphs
213 - new domethods dependency handling
214 - separate axis range calculation from dolayout
215 - axis.parter module:
216 - linear and logarthmic partitioners always need lists now
217 (as it was documented all the time; renamed tickdist/labeldist
218 to tickdists/labeldists; renamed tickpos/labelpos to
219 tickpreexps/labelpreexps)
221 - patch to tickpos and vtickpos (reported by Wojciech Smigaj, cf. patch #1286112)
222 - anchoredpathaxis added (suggested by Wojciech Smigaj)
223 - properly handle range rating on inversed axis (reported by Dominic Ford, cf. bug #1461513)
224 - invalidate axis partitions with a single label only by the distance rater
225 - fallback (with warning) to linear partitioner on a small logarithmics scale
227 - patch to allow for tickattrs=None (reported by Wojciech Smigaj, cf. patch #1286116)
229 - transparency support (PDF only)
230 - conversion between colorspaces
231 - nonlinear palettes added
232 - the former palette must now be initialized as linearpalette
233 - remove min and max arguments of palettes
235 - improve escapestring to handle all ascii characters
236 - correct vshift when text size is modified by a text.size instance
237 - recover from exceptions (reported by Alan Isaac)
238 - handle missing italic angle information in tfm for pdf output (reported by Brett Calcott)
239 - allow for .def and .fd files in texmessage.loaddef (new name for
240 texmessage.loadfd, which was restricted to .fd files)
242 - correct closepath (do not invalidate currentpoint but set it to the
243 beginning of the current subpath); structural rework of pathitems
244 - calculate real bboxes for Bezier curves
245 - fix intersection due to non-linear parametrization of bezier curves
246 - add rotate methods to path, normpath, normsubpath, and normsubpathitems
247 - add flushskippedline to normsubpath
248 - add arclentoparam to normsubpath and normsubpathitems
249 - path is no longer a canvasitem
250 - reduce number of parameters of outputPS/outputPDF methods (do not pass context and registry)
252 - contains normpath, normsubpath and normpathparam which have originally
253 been in the path module
254 - return "invalid" for certain path operations when the curve "speed" is
255 below a certain threshold
256 - normpath is no longer a canvasitem
257 - reduce number of parameters of outputPS/outputPDF methods (do not pass context and registry)
259 - rewritten smoothed to make use of the subnormpath facilities
260 - rewritten parallel for arbitrary paths
262 - add basic text decorator
263 - allow arrows at arbitrary positions along the path
265 - boxdists parameter need to be a list/tuple of two items now
266 - changed the orientation of the angle parameters
268 - renamed _apply to apply_pt
269 - introduce _epsilon for checking the singularity of a trafo
271 - use rectclip instead of clip to remove the clipping path from the
272 PostScript stack, which otherwise might create strange effects for
273 certain PostScript files (reported by Gert Ingold)
275 - silently ignore TrueType fonts in font mapping files (reported by Gabriel Vasseur)
277 - accept [ and ] as separators in encoding files (reported by Mojca Miklavec, cf. bug #1429524)
279 - remove registerPS/registerPDF in favour of registering resourcing during the outputPS/outputPDF run
280 - move bbox handling to registry
281 - rename outputPS/outputPDF -> processPS/processPDF
282 - remove set method of canvas
283 - add a pipeGS method to directly pass the PyX output to ghostscript
284 - allow file instances as parameter of the writeXXXfile methods (feature request #1419658 by Jason Pratt)
286 - allow file instances as parameter of the writeXXXfile methods (feature request #1419658 by Jason Pratt)
288 - make rellength the default for dash styles
290 - switched to subversion on 2006/03/09
294 - fix bug in postscript deco code for stroking only attributes
296 - fix multicurveto._normalized
297 - fix path.paramtoarclen and path.paramtoarclen_pt
298 - remove unused method-local function
299 - fix linestyle rellength in PostScript
300 - correction to the rounding problems in circles (reported by Uwe Fabricius)
304 - issue a warning when not using a stroke color for patterns
306 - postpone PDFfontdescriptor information, since it raises an error on certain
307 fonts even when PostScript output was requested (reported by Gert Ingold)
308 - remove spurious spaces when checking for empty texmessages
310 - caching in fallback to lower system call bottleneck
312 - add missing writePSfile wrapper
313 - add *args to writeEPSfile and writePDFfile wrappers
315 - writebbox option to write bbox information (disabled by default)
316 even when a paper format is specified (PS and PDF writers only)
317 - use arclen in spring example
319 - use pdf graphic files for pdf version of the manual
320 - use PyX to create tipa fallbacks for FAQ
321 - correct description regarding the manual in the README file
325 - changed requirements to python 2.1 or newer:
326 - nested scopes are needed without fallback solution by the path module
327 (at other places fallback solutions for missing nested scopes are missing as well)
328 - use warning module for warnings
330 - path parameters and argument handling
331 - the arct to arc/arcn conversion (needed for bbox calculation and for conversion into
332 normpath) has been fixed
333 - document module: new
334 - container classes for document and pages
335 - document.paperformat class (strings are deprecated)
337 - writeEPSfile wraps a canvas in a single page document and performs the output
341 - completely rewritten: support for fonts and patterns has been added
342 - pswriter module: new
343 - separate PS output from canvas
344 - new signature of outputPS methods: writer and context are passed as additional
347 - allow selection on zero range palette (reported by Francisco Borges, cf. bug #1116257)
348 - prolog module: removed due to code reorganisation
350 - modifications on __init__.py in graph and axis subdirectories to
351 make "from pyx.graph import *" working as expected
353 - addontop added to stackedbarpos
354 - column -> columnname renaming where appropriate
355 - histogram style added
357 - function needs explicit variable definition (implicit variable definition is deprecated)
358 - column names are inherited by data.data() except when copy=0;
359 unused columns are silently ignored now
360 - dynamic function data on a logarithmic axis uses isinstance check now
361 (although it removes the only (mis)use of axis.inverse, it is a
362 temporary solution only)
364 - extend graph keys to allow for several columns
365 - axis data handling refactoring:
366 - introcuded an axis positioner (module graph.axis.positioner)
367 - introduced anchoredaxis to make axis data and positioning local to a graph
368 - linkedaxis is a special version of anchoredaxis and is generic
369 (it uses the new linkpainter provided by an axis)
370 - unification of split and bar axes;
371 removed some black magic in baraxis in favor of a nestedbar axis
372 - x linked to x2 etc. is now possible
373 - axis.inverse was removed (the only place it was (mis)used was by a function)
375 - allow to transform axis after layout
376 - [xy]axisat arguments in the constructor to easily move [xy]-axes
377 to a position defined the orthogonal axis
378 - remove axispos (use the axis dictionary now, since it now contains
379 anchored axis instances and those have shortcuts for the axis positioner
382 - tfm->dvi conversion rounding bugfix
383 - fix parsing of empty strings ("") in fontmap files (reported by John Owens, bug #1218983)
385 - support for halign of boxes and content of boxes (see halign example)
386 - take units xscale into account in parbox
387 - messageparser for replaced fontsizes: Warning -> implemented by texmessage.fontwarning
388 - messageparser for size differences at the end: Warning not Exception -> implemented by texmessage.fontwarning
389 - messageparser for overfull/underfull vbox/hbox: Warning not Exception -> implemented by texmessage.boxwarning
390 - dvicopy flag removed
391 - allow argument of set to be None
392 - rename nomathmode and nophantom to clearmathmode and clearphantom
393 - texmessagepattern for easy creation of simple TeX message parsers
394 - allow long file names in file checking TeX message parsers
395 - no newline removal to not disturbe TeX messages when reporting errors
396 - reworked documentation to use the python documentation standards
398 - linewidth is no longer a unit.length subclass but expects a such as first argument
400 - correct EOL handling while reading DSC's (reported by Markus Meyer)
401 - pattern module: new
402 - moved canvas.pattern to its own module together with the new PDFpattern class
403 - add some default patterns: hatched and crosshatched
405 - improve the smoothing deformer
406 - add a parallel deformer
408 - the very old tex module finally got removed completely
410 - a simple converter from dvi to EPS/PS/PDF files (dviconvert.py) has been added
411 - a simple imagine to EPS/PS/PDF converter (imgconvert.py) has been added
412 - a simple dvitype.py has been added
413 - update address of FSF all over the place
418 - EPS header fixed (reported by Russell Lang, cf. bug #1065099)
420 - use CURDIR instead of PWD (reported by David M. Cooke, bug #1070285)
422 - support windows line endings (patch by Hans-Andreas Engel, cf. bug #1071160)
424 - line attributes handling fixed (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
425 - fix typos in predefined symbols (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
426 - cut column name list at the max. number of columns (reported by Arnd Baecker)
428 - add INDEX and README files to distribution
429 - new errorbar and julia example
431 - pdf snippets for tipa based phonetic transliterations
436 - new module for inclusion of bitmap images
438 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
439 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
441 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
442 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
443 - enlarge was misspelled as enlarged
444 - renamed _bbox -> bbox_pt
445 - new bbox method center, which returns the coordinates of the center
447 - enlarge and enlarged do no longer interprete unqualified lengths as
450 - unit.cm, unit.t_cm, etc. are no longer sub classes but instances
452 - never convert implicitly into visual/width, etc. lengths (this is more
453 about usage of the unit module in various other modules) (TODO: update
455 - support for string initialization removed
456 - support for initialisation with other length removed
457 - lengths can now be divided by other lengths (as suggested by Michael Gruber
458 and Magnus Lie Hetland)
460 - postpone reading of fontmap files until TeX/LaTeX is started
461 - sign of font number in dvifile (reported by Michael Gruber)
464 - added new classes page and document for multipage PostScript output
465 - apply deformers (instead of trafos) in draw method
467 - decrease interval for dotted and dash-dotted lines for better visual
469 - setup.py and distribution:
470 - create siteconfig on install to store positions of the shared data
473 - graph style + data reorganization
474 - modularization of the graph styles by separating data handling and drawing tasks
475 - several graph styles can now be combined together
476 - graph data can internally now combine different data sources
477 (by that, some nasty side effects could have been removed)
478 - enum -> num renaming
479 - allow for horizontally and vertically centered graph key alignment and a key background
480 - fix bug that graph was not finished automatically when a bbox was specified
481 manually (reported by David Barton)
483 - pathel -> pathitem, etc. renaming
484 - methods accepting a parameter value / arc length now also allow the user to
485 pass a tuple (subpath, param) / (subpath, arclen)
486 - normpath constructor no longer accepts a path or normpath as argument but only a list
487 of normsubpaths. Use the new normpath method of the path instead to construct a normpath
489 - normsubpath can now deal with short (i.e. shorter than epsilon) segments correctly
490 - the intersect and split methods of normpath and normsubpath have been completely rewritten and
491 now take the accuracy epsilon correctly into account. Note that for a closed subpath the
492 split function now returns the segment containing the closing point as first element
493 in the result list (before, it was returned as last element).
494 - normsubpathitems and normsubpath now implement much more methods also provided by
495 path and normpath instances
496 - normpath.append no longer accepts pathitems but only normsubpaths
497 - deformer module: new
498 - moved cycloid and smoothed from deco into deformer
500 - handle "BoundingBox: (atend)" (cf. bug #945621 reported by Jim Boyle)
501 - kpsearch option to search for file using the kpathsea library (contributed by Michael Gruber)
503 - PSCmd and PSOp are now joined in a new class canvasitem
505 - decorated path no longer allows modification of its path
506 - new method excluderange which allows to remove certain parameter ranges from the stroked path
507 - additional canvas provided by decorated path is now called ornaments
508 - constriction=None now indicates an arrowhead without constriction
510 - trafos are now deformers
512 - a bunch of bargraph examples have been added
517 - fix errorbar range adjustment
518 - fix empty tick lists bug (reported by Marko Vendelin, cf. bug #977323)
519 - graph/style module:
520 - symbolline drawing order in graph key (cf. bug #990687)
522 - access to builtin list (reported by Marcus Mendenhall, cf. bug #1042458)
527 - fix drawing with background
528 - fix insertion of a zero length path when the whole line is outside
529 the valid axis range (reported by Marko Vendelin)
531 - include source for faq and manual
532 - distribute the pdf instead of postscript (manual, faq, examples)
537 - fixed title=None + graph key issue reported by Gabriel Vasseur
538 - graph.axis.painter.plain -> graph.axis.painter.regular
539 (as it was in parts of the documentation already)
540 - changeable-gridattrs-become-None-bug fixed
541 - graph style cutting outside lines (double-)fixed
545 - fixes missing install of the graph and axis directories introduced in 0.6
546 - some minor updates to the faq
551 - reorganisation of the graph structure finished (there might be some
552 small pending issues, but the basic restructuring is done with this release):
553 - graph splitted into several modules in pyx/graph and pyx/graph/axis
554 - painters are using the new attribute scheme including changeable
556 - graph styles rewrite
558 - axis zeropath feature has been removed
559 - mergelabels removed; linpart doesn't have a label argument anymore
560 - names and texts removed from baraxis
561 - iteration on graph style, when it is used several times in the same graph
562 - symbols + lines -> symbollines; symbols do not allow setting lineattrs,
563 and lines not symbolattrs
564 - manual line clipping (do not include unneeded line segments when the
565 axis range is set manually etc.)
566 - automatic file key titles
567 - graph.data now also includes the old data module
568 - data.list adds (by default) a line number like data.file
569 (thus regular columns are counted from 1)
571 - added new pathels multilineto_pt and multicurveto which allows to specify
572 a list of points and can thus be much more efficient
573 - internal methods return coordinates in pts
574 - arclentoparam returns only parameters not total length
575 - added path.arclength_pt, path.at_pt, path.begin_pt, path.end_pt (and
576 correspondingly for normpath)
577 - complete refactoring of the normpath class: normpaths now consist of
578 normsubpaths which themselves consist of normlines and normcurves This is
579 much more convenient for any routines working with normpaths.
580 - reversing of closed sub paths does not change the first point of the sub
582 - renamed: arclength -> arclen
583 - renamed: lentopar -> arclentoparam
584 - renamed: glue -> joined
585 - normpath now supports join, the in-place version of joined
586 - path and normpath method raise exception instead of returning None
587 when parameter is out of range
588 - the accuracy epsilon can now only be specified in normpath and normsubpath
589 constructor and no longer in arguments of path and normpath methods
590 - negative parameters are no longer supported in path and normpath methods
591 - path and normpath methods which accept parameter value param now
592 alternatively accept an arc length
596 - arrow heads are no longer stroked (as suggested by Magnus Lie Hetland)
598 - writeEPSfile deprecates writetofile
599 - internally, write methods are renamed in outputPS
600 - canvas constructor no longer accepts variable argument list but
601 expects a list of attrs as first argument (defaulting to []) and
602 a texrunner as second argument (defaulting to text.defaulttexrunner)
603 - set, draw, stroke and fill no longer return self, i.e., the canvas, but None
605 - added inplace add (__iadd__), enlarge and transform methods
606 - callers use inplace add where possible now (yielding a considerable
608 - "undefined" corners of bounding boxes are no longer supported which makes
609 the bounding box operations much more efficient.
611 - renamed _xxx -> xxx_pt
613 - removed showbbox argument of epsfile class
615 - default handling of texmessages as in the new attribute scheme
616 - multiple insert bug fixed
617 - made left, right, width, height, depth information available (x length
618 not taking into account box transformations)
619 - ignore tex message "Please type a command or say `\\end'"
620 - added textboxes that are sequentially filled (experimental)
622 - mandel.py (contributed by Stephen Phillips)
624 - length comparision (David Beach)
628 - switched to the new parser using pythons parser module
630 - removed, it all lives in the graph.data module now, while before it
631 was splitted into two separate modules
633 - not imported by default anymore
634 - obsolete warning when importing this module
638 - include missing c-files for optional extension modules
640 - fix unpaired BeginProcSet/EndProcSet in font enconding
643 - setup.py and distribution:
644 - allow customization of the extension modules built (via setup.cfg)
645 - disable building pykpathsea module by default
646 - more detailed description of install process in INSTALL
647 - provide more information and pointers to other files in README
648 - include example data files in distribution (suggested by Andrea Riciputi)
649 - force dvips to write ps files instead of printing them (suggested by Otto Tronarp)
650 - includ pyxfaq.pdf in distribution
652 - improved is-readable test for lfs files and pyx.def file
653 - explicitly quit (La)TeX in cleantmp (helps when quitting with <Ctrl>C)
654 - showwaitfortex implemented following a suggestion by Fernando Perez
655 (waitfortex is increased to 60 seconds now)
656 - support of TeX extension --ipc for reading dvi results while TeX keeps running
657 - configurable font mapping files (via pyxrc or parameter of the texrunner constructor)
658 - markers to get access to positions within TeX expressions
659 - fix: allow for e-tex in texmessage.start (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
660 - fix: print warning at syntax errors in font mapping file and continue (cf. bug #795271)
661 - remove limitation on number of fonts in dvi file
662 - added native virtual font support
663 - dvicopy support not needed anymore (it is still available, but obsolete and
664 removed from the documentation)
665 - do not include too many glyphs in the eps file
666 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
667 - dvifile module (NEW):
668 - separated from the text module
669 - dvifile class returns standard pyx canvas instances on readpage
671 - removed manualpart and partitioners mix keyword
672 - results of the splitting at "=" in graph.function were not stripped
673 - skip title=None in key (cf. bug #821284), properly align a single key entry
674 - another (the last?!) axis redesign: axispos -> class of its own
675 - some axispos name have changed slightly (zeroline -> zeropath etc.)
676 - tick/data-vmin/vmax removed
679 - minor enhancements in exponentionaltexter
680 - axes alongs paths including a set of examples
681 - mixing a partitioner and manual ticks by two distinct keyword arguments now
682 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
683 - part -> parter renaming
685 - stroke, fill, draw, set and insert do no longer accept variable length argument lists but
686 an attribute list as last argument
687 - stroke and fill now support trafos (TODO: documentation)
688 - uppercase version of a4, a3, ... paperformats
690 - new module for loading PyX configuration information
692 - automatically import main modules into pyx namespace as suggested by Fernando
695 - check for sorting of parameter list passed to path.split method
696 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
698 - contains decoratedpath and decorators from canvas module
699 - all predefined decorators are instances now (deco.stroked is thus ok) and
700 attributes have to be passed explicitely, e.g., deco.earrow.small(attrs=color.rgb.red)
701 and deco.stroked([color.rgb.blue])
702 - style module (NEW):
703 - contains all line- and fillstyles which formerly had been defined in the canvas module
704 - dash now supports relative dash lengths (as suggested by Otto Tronarp)
706 - fixed incorrect handling of - (for instance -x**2 was not negative)
708 - contents have been moved to the (obsolete) tex module, which was the only user anyhow, and
709 the module itself was removed
711 - new fallback solution in pure python
712 - bugfix: pyxadapt.h needs to open files binary under Windows (reported by Gary Pajer)
714 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
716 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
720 - "in" to "inch" in paperformats
722 - fix pyx.def hack occuring whenever \ProcessOptions* was used by a package
724 - implement different file formats for Python version of module
726 - python fallback solution should behave the same way as c extension module (closes SF bug #799182 reported
727 by Marcus Mendenhall)
729 - added "connector" to __all__
733 - separate texter out of the axispainter
734 - axis/partitioner/texter/painter/axispos redesign & interfaces
735 - tick.text is renamed to tick.label
736 - ticks and labels are renamed to tickpos/tickdist and labelpos/labeldist in partitioning
737 - ticks can be used in the part to mix a partitioner with some manual ticks
738 -> manualpart and the mix technique is not needed anymore
739 (both things are still available and working, but they will be removed in the future)
740 - _ensurefrac is implemented inside the frac constructor now; initialization is possible by:
741 - a (enum, denom) tuple now (previously there were two arguments)
742 - a string (as before via _ensurefrac)
743 - exponential strings are allowed as well (e.g. "1e10" etc.)
744 - a float (precision is determined by floatprecision -- the number of decimal places)
749 - reset() method for the texrunner
750 - automatic restart of a TeX instance with the same preamble (preamble changes are not possible)
751 - texmessage.loadfd for accepting font description loading
752 - don't bail out on width_index == 0, but mark character invalid instead
754 - support for specials; pyxgraphics flag
755 - support psfonts.map: font names, font encodings
756 - bugfix \def\ProcessPyXBox -> \long\def\ProcessPyXBox
757 - improved lfs handling
759 - full documentation via doc strings
761 - some preliminary version
763 - multiple radii (up to two per point) and softnesses
764 - ensurecenter added --- do we always force the creation of a center?
766 - lentopar methods added including some tests
768 - new parameter bbox allows to override the bounding box of the eps file
772 - derive TFMError and DVIError correctly from exceptions.Exception
773 - close files and pipes, if they are no longer used (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
774 - remove DeprecationWarning in Python 2.3 (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
776 - correct rounding algorithm (Michael Schindler)
778 - refer to the graphs texrunner instead of the defaulttexrunner (cf. #728209)
779 - rounding towards zero bugfix in autolinpart
780 - log axis range rating bugfix
782 - addarg bugs (#738724)
784 - fix mixing up of height and width in scale calculation
785 - and various other fixer here and there
789 - fix bug in dvi rule code where width was height
790 - fix preamble attribute checking bug
791 - fix texmessage.load pattern search instead of pattern match bug
792 - renamed vbox to parbox (was done in 0.3 partially only)
794 - allow for tuples in arguments of the data class
795 - convenience: exchanged order of named parameters in data.data
797 - convenience: allow for part=None in _axis (base of linaxis and logaxis)
799 - added a latex example (requested)
800 - added a attributechange example (requested)
801 - added back the integral example (requested; prior PyX 0.3 it was part of the user manual)
802 - small change in vector example (allow for the access to the texrunner)
803 - examples included in source distribution
805 - correct arrow template calculation for very short paths
809 - new easy to use example generation (will hopefully lead to nice examples)
811 - new module for handling of convex polygons (taken out of the graph module)
813 - new module containing a collection of helper functions (taken out of the graph module)
814 - moved the attrlist into helper -- as plain functions; attrlist becomes obsolete
816 - new module: a new and preferable integration of TeX/LaTeX
818 - strip glyphs from pfa/pfb-fonts
819 - there is a C implementation taken from pdftex
820 - fallback solution via an external program (pfb2pfa)
822 - (partial) C binding to libkpathsea
823 - fallback solution via an external program (kpsewhich)
825 - removed some code duplication (various axis painters)
826 - use text module instead of the obsolete tex module
827 - allow for tailing zeros of automatic generated labels
828 - allow for missing data in bar graphs -> skipmissing parameter
829 - remove the support for variables given as keyword arguments in data constructor
830 - use context instead of extern for extern variables and functions
831 - graph keys; titles in data/function/etc.
833 - new classes for visual and width lengths, aliases for user length (u_pt = pt)
834 - all length classes have now by default a quantifier 1 (instead of 0), such that,
835 for instance, 5*unit.t_cm() == unit.t_cm(5)
836 - default_unit now has to be set via unit.set. For instance: unit.set(defaultunit="m").
837 - convert_to is now an internal function, which moreover does not longer accept tuples or lists
839 - new class _bbox (the former bbox) which accepts points in the constructor. This is used
840 for internal purposes.
841 - the bbox constructor now accepts user lengths in the constructor.
842 - new methods height, width, top, bottom, left, right
843 - ll & ur ???, what about ul and lr -> ugly!
844 - enlarge (was enhance) now allows selective enlargement to the left, bottom, right and top
845 - output HiResBoundingBox
846 - never reduce bbox upon output
848 - new constructor signature, more in line with rest of PyX:
849 epsfile(x, y, filename, **additional_args)
851 - removed additional column support in addcolumn; removed _addcolumn
852 - line reduction for datafile like the every parameter in gnuplot
854 - new way of PS prolog generation that writes only necessary parts
855 - added support for patterns
856 - canvas.insert() now supports arguments
857 - bbox of canvas can be specified in writetofile command explicitely
858 - writetofile does not return self anymore
859 - arrow template now uses intersection with circle to get size right
860 (as per a suggestion by Michael Schindler)
863 - changed the handling of extern functions and all variables
865 - gradient renamed to palette
867 - problem with sizefile on windows (tex module)
868 - allow for strings in graphxy's width and height; allow for width only (graph module)
869 - disable rating for labelattrs equals None (graph module)
870 - defaultstyle selection, when a list of data is provided to the plot function (graph module)
871 - traverse when adding functions as arguments of operators (mathtree module)
872 - allow for extern functions in addcolumn (data module)
873 - just one common place for the version number
874 - fix incorrect exception name MathError (path module)
875 - prevent double return of intersections for closed sub paths
880 - allow division of length by numbers
882 - new transformation: slant
883 - renamed all trafo methods to use the participle (i.e translate->translated)
884 - the name of all trafo subclasses are verbs (i.e. translation->translate)
886 - mark class renamed to symbol
887 - (text-)box distance measurement
888 - moved axis partitioning to axis and axis painter
889 - automatic axis partitioning (now officially: general cleanup, distance measurement, documentation)
891 - baraxis, baraxispainter, and bar style
893 - previously named datafile module
894 - class "_datafile" renamed to class "data"
895 - class sectionfile added
898 - extern variables and functions (support in graph.function, graph.paramfunction and data.data)
901 - deferred to Version 0.3
902 - running TeX "on the fly" is basically implemented
904 - transformation bug (#624068, trafo module)
905 - canvas transformations (canvas module???)
906 - textbox alignment (graph module)
907 - return linewidth upon calculation with linewidths (unit module)
908 - allow column number variables with several digits
910 - british and american spellings (color module, graph module)
911 - small logo modifications