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
98 - graphxyz for 3d graphs with parallel and central projection
99 - doplot method (to be called with a plotitem) to alter the plotitem order etc.
101 - new surface style for 3d graphs (colored surfaces are functional
102 (and useful!) for 2d graphs as well)
103 - new grid style for 3d graphs
105 - optional textdx/textdy columns to the text style added
106 - arrowpos parameter to the arrow style added
107 - bugfix: fromvalue axis range adjustment in histogram style
108 - bugfix: axis range adjustment in range style
110 - painter: don't insert axis title twice (thanks to Tim Gray for reporting this problem)
111 - parter: extend the logarithmic parter to calculate automatic partitions for huge ranges
112 (TODO: documentation of the new autoexponent parameter) (suggested by Dominic Ford)
113 - fix: range rating was not taken into account due in the 0.9 release
115 - list class was renamed to points; deprecation warning added
116 for instance creation, but inheritance from list failes
119 - internal helper module for efficient handling of triangular colored meshs
121 - renamed: palette->gradient, functionpalette->functiongradient, linearpalette->lineargradient
122 - new class palette representing a discrete ordered list of colors
123 - support transparency for filling/stroking in pdf separately
124 - transparency support for postscript as available by means of a proprietary
125 ghostscript extension (for ps2pdf)
127 - add multichangeattr to perform a select on different changeable attributes
128 depending on the selects total number
131 - add missing glyph traversal in t1seacs updatepath
133 - support zero-length normsubpaths
135 - don't change order of attrs passed to canvas constructor in place
136 - added __truediv__ methods according to PEP 238
140 - most important changes (to be included in the release notes):
141 - mathtree removal (warning about integer division)
142 - barpos style does not build tuples for nestedbar axes automatically
143 - new deformers for path manipulation (for smoothing, shifting, ... paths)
145 - new framework for font handling
146 - own implementation of type1 font stripping (old pdftex code fragments removed)
147 - complete type1 font command representation and glyph path extraction from font programs
148 - t1code extension module (C version of de-/encoding routines used in Type 1 font files)
152 - mathtree removal: more flexibility due to true python expressions
153 - default style instantiation bug (reported by Gregory Novak)
155 - automatic subaxis tuple creation removed in barpos (create tuples
156 in expressions now; subnames argument removed since it became pointless;
157 adujstaxis became independend from selectstyle for all styles now)
158 - remove multiple painting of frompath in histogram and barpos styles
159 - fix missing attribute select when using a bar style once only (reported by Alan Isaac)
160 - fix histograms for negative y-coordinates (reported by Dominic Ford, bug #1492548)
161 - fix histogram to stroke lines to the baseline for steps=0 when two subsequent values are equal
162 - add key method for histogram style (reported by Hagemann, bug #1371554)
163 - implement a changebar style
164 - graph, axis and style module:
165 - support for mutual linking of axes between graphs
166 - new domethods dependency handling
167 - separate axis range calculation from dolayout
168 - axis.parter module:
169 - linear and logarthmic partitioners always need lists now
170 (as it was documented all the time; renamed tickdist/labeldist
171 to tickdists/labeldists; renamed tickpos/labelpos to
172 tickpreexps/labelpreexps)
174 - patch to tickpos and vtickpos (reported by Wojciech Smigaj, cf. patch #1286112)
175 - anchoredpathaxis added (suggested by Wojciech Smigaj)
176 - properly handle range rating on inversed axis (reported by Dominic Ford, cf. bug #1461513)
177 - invalidate axis partitions with a single label only by the distance rater
178 - fallback (with warning) to linear partitioner on a small logarithmics scale
180 - patch to allow for tickattrs=None (reported by Wojciech Smigaj, cf. patch #1286116)
182 - transparency support (PDF only)
183 - conversion between colorspaces
184 - nonlinear palettes added
185 - the former palette must now be initialized as linearpalette
186 - remove min and max arguments of palettes
188 - improve escapestring to handle all ascii characters
189 - correct vshift when text size is modified by a text.size instance
190 - recover from exceptions (reported by Alan Isaac)
191 - handle missing italic angle information in tfm for pdf output (reported by Brett Calcott)
192 - allow for .def and .fd files in texmessage.loaddef (new name for
193 texmessage.loadfd, which was restricted to .fd files)
195 - correct closepath (do not invalidate currentpoint but set it to the
196 beginning of the current subpath); structural rework of pathitems
197 - calculate real bboxes for Bezier curves
198 - fix intersection due to non-linear parametrization of bezier curves
199 - add rotate methods to path, normpath, normsubpath, and normsubpathitems
200 - add flushskippedline to normsubpath
201 - add arclentoparam to normsubpath and normsubpathitems
202 - path is no longer a canvasitem
203 - reduce number of parameters of outputPS/outputPDF methods (do not pass context and registry)
205 - contains normpath, normsubpath and normpathparam which have originally
206 been in the path module
207 - return "invalid" for certain path operations when the curve "speed" is
208 below a certain threshold
209 - normpath is no longer a canvasitem
210 - reduce number of parameters of outputPS/outputPDF methods (do not pass context and registry)
212 - rewritten smoothed to make use of the subnormpath facilities
213 - rewritten parallel for arbitrary paths
215 - add basic text decorator
216 - allow arrows at arbitrary positions along the path
218 - boxdists parameter need to be a list/tuple of two items now
219 - changed the orientation of the angle parameters
221 - renamed _apply to apply_pt
222 - introduce _epsilon for checking the singularity of a trafo
224 - use rectclip instead of clip to remove the clipping path from the
225 PostScript stack, which otherwise might create strange effects for
226 certain PostScript files (reported by Gert Ingold)
228 - silently ignore TrueType fonts in font mapping files (reported by Gabriel Vasseur)
230 - accept [ and ] as separators in encoding files (reported by Mojca Miklavec, cf. bug #1429524)
232 - remove registerPS/registerPDF in favour of registering resourcing during the outputPS/outputPDF run
233 - move bbox handling to registry
234 - rename outputPS/outputPDF -> processPS/processPDF
235 - remove set method of canvas
236 - add a pipeGS method to directly pass the PyX output to ghostscript
237 - allow file instances as parameter of the writeXXXfile methods (feature request #1419658 by Jason Pratt)
239 - allow file instances as parameter of the writeXXXfile methods (feature request #1419658 by Jason Pratt)
241 - make rellength the default for dash styles
243 - switched to subversion on 2006/03/09
247 - fix bug in postscript deco code for stroking only attributes
249 - fix multicurveto._normalized
250 - fix path.paramtoarclen and path.paramtoarclen_pt
251 - remove unused method-local function
252 - fix linestyle rellength in PostScript
253 - correction to the rounding problems in circles (reported by Uwe Fabricius)
257 - issue a warning when not using a stroke color for patterns
259 - postpone PDFfontdescriptor information, since it raises an error on certain
260 fonts even when PostScript output was requested (reported by Gert Ingold)
261 - remove spurious spaces when checking for empty texmessages
263 - caching in fallback to lower system call bottleneck
265 - add missing writePSfile wrapper
266 - add *args to writeEPSfile and writePDFfile wrappers
268 - writebbox option to write bbox information (disabled by default)
269 even when a paper format is specified (PS and PDF writers only)
270 - use arclen in spring example
272 - use pdf graphic files for pdf version of the manual
273 - use PyX to create tipa fallbacks for FAQ
274 - correct description regarding the manual in the README file
278 - changed requirements to python 2.1 or newer:
279 - nested scopes are needed without fallback solution by the path module
280 (at other places fallback solutions for missing nested scopes are missing as well)
281 - use warning module for warnings
283 - path parameters and argument handling
284 - the arct to arc/arcn conversion (needed for bbox calculation and for conversion into
285 normpath) has been fixed
286 - document module: new
287 - container classes for document and pages
288 - document.paperformat class (strings are deprecated)
290 - writeEPSfile wraps a canvas in a single page document and performs the output
294 - completely rewritten: support for fonts and patterns has been added
295 - pswriter module: new
296 - separate PS output from canvas
297 - new signature of outputPS methods: writer and context are passed as additional
300 - allow selection on zero range palette (reported by Francisco Borges, cf. bug #1116257)
301 - prolog module: removed due to code reorganisation
303 - modifications on __init__.py in graph and axis subdirectories to
304 make "from pyx.graph import *" working as expected
306 - addontop added to stackedbarpos
307 - column -> columnname renaming where appropriate
308 - histogram style added
310 - function needs explicit variable definition (implicit variable definition is deprecated)
311 - column names are inherited by data.data() except when copy=0;
312 unused columns are silently ignored now
313 - dynamic function data on a logarithmic axis uses isinstance check now
314 (although it removes the only (mis)use of axis.inverse, it is a
315 temporary solution only)
317 - extend graph keys to allow for several columns
318 - axis data handling refactoring:
319 - introcuded an axis positioner (module graph.axis.positioner)
320 - introduced anchoredaxis to make axis data and positioning local to a graph
321 - linkedaxis is a special version of anchoredaxis and is generic
322 (it uses the new linkpainter provided by an axis)
323 - unification of split and bar axes;
324 removed some black magic in baraxis in favor of a nestedbar axis
325 - x linked to x2 etc. is now possible
326 - axis.inverse was removed (the only place it was (mis)used was by a function)
328 - allow to transform axis after layout
329 - [xy]axisat arguments in the constructor to easily move [xy]-axes
330 to a position defined the orthogonal axis
331 - remove axispos (use the axis dictionary now, since it now contains
332 anchored axis instances and those have shortcuts for the axis positioner
335 - tfm->dvi conversion rounding bugfix
336 - fix parsing of empty strings ("") in fontmap files (reported by John Owens, bug #1218983)
338 - support for halign of boxes and content of boxes (see halign example)
339 - take units xscale into account in parbox
340 - messageparser for replaced fontsizes: Warning -> implemented by texmessage.fontwarning
341 - messageparser for size differences at the end: Warning not Exception -> implemented by texmessage.fontwarning
342 - messageparser for overfull/underfull vbox/hbox: Warning not Exception -> implemented by texmessage.boxwarning
343 - dvicopy flag removed
344 - allow argument of set to be None
345 - rename nomathmode and nophantom to clearmathmode and clearphantom
346 - texmessagepattern for easy creation of simple TeX message parsers
347 - allow long file names in file checking TeX message parsers
348 - no newline removal to not disturbe TeX messages when reporting errors
349 - reworked documentation to use the python documentation standards
351 - linewidth is no longer a unit.length subclass but expects a such as first argument
353 - correct EOL handling while reading DSC's (reported by Markus Meyer)
354 - pattern module: new
355 - moved canvas.pattern to its own module together with the new PDFpattern class
356 - add some default patterns: hatched and crosshatched
358 - improve the smoothing deformer
359 - add a parallel deformer
361 - the very old tex module finally got removed completely
363 - a simple converter from dvi to EPS/PS/PDF files (dviconvert.py) has been added
364 - a simple imagine to EPS/PS/PDF converter (imgconvert.py) has been added
365 - a simple dvitype.py has been added
366 - update address of FSF all over the place
371 - EPS header fixed (reported by Russell Lang, cf. bug #1065099)
373 - use CURDIR instead of PWD (reported by David M. Cooke, bug #1070285)
375 - support windows line endings (patch by Hans-Andreas Engel, cf. bug #1071160)
377 - line attributes handling fixed (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
378 - fix typos in predefined symbols (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
379 - cut column name list at the max. number of columns (reported by Arnd Baecker)
381 - add INDEX and README files to distribution
382 - new errorbar and julia example
384 - pdf snippets for tipa based phonetic transliterations
389 - new module for inclusion of bitmap images
391 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
392 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
394 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
395 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
396 - enlarge was misspelled as enlarged
397 - renamed _bbox -> bbox_pt
398 - new bbox method center, which returns the coordinates of the center
400 - enlarge and enlarged do no longer interprete unqualified lengths as
403 - unit.cm, unit.t_cm, etc. are no longer sub classes but instances
405 - never convert implicitly into visual/width, etc. lengths (this is more
406 about usage of the unit module in various other modules) (TODO: update
408 - support for string initialization removed
409 - support for initialisation with other length removed
410 - lengths can now be divided by other lengths (as suggested by Michael Gruber
411 and Magnus Lie Hetland)
413 - postpone reading of fontmap files until TeX/LaTeX is started
414 - sign of font number in dvifile (reported by Michael Gruber)
417 - added new classes page and document for multipage PostScript output
418 - apply deformers (instead of trafos) in draw method
420 - decrease interval for dotted and dash-dotted lines for better visual
422 - setup.py and distribution:
423 - create siteconfig on install to store positions of the shared data
426 - graph style + data reorganization
427 - modularization of the graph styles by separating data handling and drawing tasks
428 - several graph styles can now be combined together
429 - graph data can internally now combine different data sources
430 (by that, some nasty side effects could have been removed)
431 - enum -> num renaming
432 - allow for horizontally and vertically centered graph key alignment and a key background
433 - fix bug that graph was not finished automatically when a bbox was specified
434 manually (reported by David Barton)
436 - pathel -> pathitem, etc. renaming
437 - methods accepting a parameter value / arc length now also allow the user to
438 pass a tuple (subpath, param) / (subpath, arclen)
439 - normpath constructor no longer accepts a path or normpath as argument but only a list
440 of normsubpaths. Use the new normpath method of the path instead to construct a normpath
442 - normsubpath can now deal with short (i.e. shorter than epsilon) segments correctly
443 - the intersect and split methods of normpath and normsubpath have been completely rewritten and
444 now take the accuracy epsilon correctly into account. Note that for a closed subpath the
445 split function now returns the segment containing the closing point as first element
446 in the result list (before, it was returned as last element).
447 - normsubpathitems and normsubpath now implement much more methods also provided by
448 path and normpath instances
449 - normpath.append no longer accepts pathitems but only normsubpaths
450 - deformer module: new
451 - moved cycloid and smoothed from deco into deformer
453 - handle "BoundingBox: (atend)" (cf. bug #945621 reported by Jim Boyle)
454 - kpsearch option to search for file using the kpathsea library (contributed by Michael Gruber)
456 - PSCmd and PSOp are now joined in a new class canvasitem
458 - decorated path no longer allows modification of its path
459 - new method excluderange which allows to remove certain parameter ranges from the stroked path
460 - additional canvas provided by decorated path is now called ornaments
461 - constriction=None now indicates an arrowhead without constriction
463 - trafos are now deformers
465 - a bunch of bargraph examples have been added
470 - fix errorbar range adjustment
471 - fix empty tick lists bug (reported by Marko Vendelin, cf. bug #977323)
472 - graph/style module:
473 - symbolline drawing order in graph key (cf. bug #990687)
475 - access to builtin list (reported by Marcus Mendenhall, cf. bug #1042458)
480 - fix drawing with background
481 - fix insertion of a zero length path when the whole line is outside
482 the valid axis range (reported by Marko Vendelin)
484 - include source for faq and manual
485 - distribute the pdf instead of postscript (manual, faq, examples)
490 - fixed title=None + graph key issue reported by Gabriel Vasseur
491 - graph.axis.painter.plain -> graph.axis.painter.regular
492 (as it was in parts of the documentation already)
493 - changeable-gridattrs-become-None-bug fixed
494 - graph style cutting outside lines (double-)fixed
498 - fixes missing install of the graph and axis directories introduced in 0.6
499 - some minor updates to the faq
504 - reorganisation of the graph structure finished (there might be some
505 small pending issues, but the basic restructuring is done with this release):
506 - graph splitted into several modules in pyx/graph and pyx/graph/axis
507 - painters are using the new attribute scheme including changeable
509 - graph styles rewrite
511 - axis zeropath feature has been removed
512 - mergelabels removed; linpart doesn't have a label argument anymore
513 - names and texts removed from baraxis
514 - iteration on graph style, when it is used several times in the same graph
515 - symbols + lines -> symbollines; symbols do not allow setting lineattrs,
516 and lines not symbolattrs
517 - manual line clipping (do not include unneeded line segments when the
518 axis range is set manually etc.)
519 - automatic file key titles
520 - graph.data now also includes the old data module
521 - data.list adds (by default) a line number like data.file
522 (thus regular columns are counted from 1)
524 - added new pathels multilineto_pt and multicurveto which allows to specify
525 a list of points and can thus be much more efficient
526 - internal methods return coordinates in pts
527 - arclentoparam returns only parameters not total length
528 - added path.arclength_pt, path.at_pt, path.begin_pt, path.end_pt (and
529 correspondingly for normpath)
530 - complete refactoring of the normpath class: normpaths now consist of
531 normsubpaths which themselves consist of normlines and normcurves This is
532 much more convenient for any routines working with normpaths.
533 - reversing of closed sub paths does not change the first point of the sub
535 - renamed: arclength -> arclen
536 - renamed: lentopar -> arclentoparam
537 - renamed: glue -> joined
538 - normpath now supports join, the in-place version of joined
539 - path and normpath method raise exception instead of returning None
540 when parameter is out of range
541 - the accuracy epsilon can now only be specified in normpath and normsubpath
542 constructor and no longer in arguments of path and normpath methods
543 - negative parameters are no longer supported in path and normpath methods
544 - path and normpath methods which accept parameter value param now
545 alternatively accept an arc length
549 - arrow heads are no longer stroked (as suggested by Magnus Lie Hetland)
551 - writeEPSfile deprecates writetofile
552 - internally, write methods are renamed in outputPS
553 - canvas constructor no longer accepts variable argument list but
554 expects a list of attrs as first argument (defaulting to []) and
555 a texrunner as second argument (defaulting to text.defaulttexrunner)
556 - set, draw, stroke and fill no longer return self, i.e., the canvas, but None
558 - added inplace add (__iadd__), enlarge and transform methods
559 - callers use inplace add where possible now (yielding a considerable
561 - "undefined" corners of bounding boxes are no longer supported which makes
562 the bounding box operations much more efficient.
564 - renamed _xxx -> xxx_pt
566 - removed showbbox argument of epsfile class
568 - default handling of texmessages as in the new attribute scheme
569 - multiple insert bug fixed
570 - made left, right, width, height, depth information available (x length
571 not taking into account box transformations)
572 - ignore tex message "Please type a command or say `\\end'"
573 - added textboxes that are sequentially filled (experimental)
575 - mandel.py (contributed by Stephen Phillips)
577 - length comparision (David Beach)
581 - switched to the new parser using pythons parser module
583 - removed, it all lives in the graph.data module now, while before it
584 was splitted into two separate modules
586 - not imported by default anymore
587 - obsolete warning when importing this module
591 - include missing c-files for optional extension modules
593 - fix unpaired BeginProcSet/EndProcSet in font enconding
596 - setup.py and distribution:
597 - allow customization of the extension modules built (via setup.cfg)
598 - disable building pykpathsea module by default
599 - more detailed description of install process in INSTALL
600 - provide more information and pointers to other files in README
601 - include example data files in distribution (suggested by Andrea Riciputi)
602 - force dvips to write ps files instead of printing them (suggested by Otto Tronarp)
603 - includ pyxfaq.pdf in distribution
605 - improved is-readable test for lfs files and pyx.def file
606 - explicitly quit (La)TeX in cleantmp (helps when quitting with <Ctrl>C)
607 - showwaitfortex implemented following a suggestion by Fernando Perez
608 (waitfortex is increased to 60 seconds now)
609 - support of TeX extension --ipc for reading dvi results while TeX keeps running
610 - configurable font mapping files (via pyxrc or parameter of the texrunner constructor)
611 - markers to get access to positions within TeX expressions
612 - fix: allow for e-tex in texmessage.start (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
613 - fix: print warning at syntax errors in font mapping file and continue (cf. bug #795271)
614 - remove limitation on number of fonts in dvi file
615 - added native virtual font support
616 - dvicopy support not needed anymore (it is still available, but obsolete and
617 removed from the documentation)
618 - do not include too many glyphs in the eps file
619 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
620 - dvifile module (NEW):
621 - separated from the text module
622 - dvifile class returns standard pyx canvas instances on readpage
624 - removed manualpart and partitioners mix keyword
625 - results of the splitting at "=" in graph.function were not stripped
626 - skip title=None in key (cf. bug #821284), properly align a single key entry
627 - another (the last?!) axis redesign: axispos -> class of its own
628 - some axispos name have changed slightly (zeroline -> zeropath etc.)
629 - tick/data-vmin/vmax removed
632 - minor enhancements in exponentionaltexter
633 - axes alongs paths including a set of examples
634 - mixing a partitioner and manual ticks by two distinct keyword arguments now
635 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
636 - part -> parter renaming
638 - stroke, fill, draw, set and insert do no longer accept variable length argument lists but
639 an attribute list as last argument
640 - stroke and fill now support trafos (TODO: documentation)
641 - uppercase version of a4, a3, ... paperformats
643 - new module for loading PyX configuration information
645 - automatically import main modules into pyx namespace as suggested by Fernando
648 - check for sorting of parameter list passed to path.split method
649 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
651 - contains decoratedpath and decorators from canvas module
652 - all predefined decorators are instances now (deco.stroked is thus ok) and
653 attributes have to be passed explicitely, e.g., deco.earrow.small(attrs=color.rgb.red)
654 and deco.stroked([color.rgb.blue])
655 - style module (NEW):
656 - contains all line- and fillstyles which formerly had been defined in the canvas module
657 - dash now supports relative dash lengths (as suggested by Otto Tronarp)
659 - fixed incorrect handling of - (for instance -x**2 was not negative)
661 - contents have been moved to the (obsolete) tex module, which was the only user anyhow, and
662 the module itself was removed
664 - new fallback solution in pure python
665 - bugfix: pyxadapt.h needs to open files binary under Windows (reported by Gary Pajer)
667 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
669 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
673 - "in" to "inch" in paperformats
675 - fix pyx.def hack occuring whenever \ProcessOptions* was used by a package
677 - implement different file formats for Python version of module
679 - python fallback solution should behave the same way as c extension module (closes SF bug #799182 reported
680 by Marcus Mendenhall)
682 - added "connector" to __all__
686 - separate texter out of the axispainter
687 - axis/partitioner/texter/painter/axispos redesign & interfaces
688 - tick.text is renamed to tick.label
689 - ticks and labels are renamed to tickpos/tickdist and labelpos/labeldist in partitioning
690 - ticks can be used in the part to mix a partitioner with some manual ticks
691 -> manualpart and the mix technique is not needed anymore
692 (both things are still available and working, but they will be removed in the future)
693 - _ensurefrac is implemented inside the frac constructor now; initialization is possible by:
694 - a (enum, denom) tuple now (previously there were two arguments)
695 - a string (as before via _ensurefrac)
696 - exponential strings are allowed as well (e.g. "1e10" etc.)
697 - a float (precision is determined by floatprecision -- the number of decimal places)
702 - reset() method for the texrunner
703 - automatic restart of a TeX instance with the same preamble (preamble changes are not possible)
704 - texmessage.loadfd for accepting font description loading
705 - don't bail out on width_index == 0, but mark character invalid instead
707 - support for specials; pyxgraphics flag
708 - support psfonts.map: font names, font encodings
709 - bugfix \def\ProcessPyXBox -> \long\def\ProcessPyXBox
710 - improved lfs handling
712 - full documentation via doc strings
714 - some preliminary version
716 - multiple radii (up to two per point) and softnesses
717 - ensurecenter added --- do we always force the creation of a center?
719 - lentopar methods added including some tests
721 - new parameter bbox allows to override the bounding box of the eps file
725 - derive TFMError and DVIError correctly from exceptions.Exception
726 - close files and pipes, if they are no longer used (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
727 - remove DeprecationWarning in Python 2.3 (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
729 - correct rounding algorithm (Michael Schindler)
731 - refer to the graphs texrunner instead of the defaulttexrunner (cf. #728209)
732 - rounding towards zero bugfix in autolinpart
733 - log axis range rating bugfix
735 - addarg bugs (#738724)
737 - fix mixing up of height and width in scale calculation
738 - and various other fixer here and there
742 - fix bug in dvi rule code where width was height
743 - fix preamble attribute checking bug
744 - fix texmessage.load pattern search instead of pattern match bug
745 - renamed vbox to parbox (was done in 0.3 partially only)
747 - allow for tuples in arguments of the data class
748 - convenience: exchanged order of named parameters in data.data
750 - convenience: allow for part=None in _axis (base of linaxis and logaxis)
752 - added a latex example (requested)
753 - added a attributechange example (requested)
754 - added back the integral example (requested; prior PyX 0.3 it was part of the user manual)
755 - small change in vector example (allow for the access to the texrunner)
756 - examples included in source distribution
758 - correct arrow template calculation for very short paths
762 - new easy to use example generation (will hopefully lead to nice examples)
764 - new module for handling of convex polygons (taken out of the graph module)
766 - new module containing a collection of helper functions (taken out of the graph module)
767 - moved the attrlist into helper -- as plain functions; attrlist becomes obsolete
769 - new module: a new and preferable integration of TeX/LaTeX
771 - strip glyphs from pfa/pfb-fonts
772 - there is a C implementation taken from pdftex
773 - fallback solution via an external program (pfb2pfa)
775 - (partial) C binding to libkpathsea
776 - fallback solution via an external program (kpsewhich)
778 - removed some code duplication (various axis painters)
779 - use text module instead of the obsolete tex module
780 - allow for tailing zeros of automatic generated labels
781 - allow for missing data in bar graphs -> skipmissing parameter
782 - remove the support for variables given as keyword arguments in data constructor
783 - use context instead of extern for extern variables and functions
784 - graph keys; titles in data/function/etc.
786 - new classes for visual and width lengths, aliases for user length (u_pt = pt)
787 - all length classes have now by default a quantifier 1 (instead of 0), such that,
788 for instance, 5*unit.t_cm() == unit.t_cm(5)
789 - default_unit now has to be set via unit.set. For instance: unit.set(defaultunit="m").
790 - convert_to is now an internal function, which moreover does not longer accept tuples or lists
792 - new class _bbox (the former bbox) which accepts points in the constructor. This is used
793 for internal purposes.
794 - the bbox constructor now accepts user lengths in the constructor.
795 - new methods height, width, top, bottom, left, right
796 - ll & ur ???, what about ul and lr -> ugly!
797 - enlarge (was enhance) now allows selective enlargement to the left, bottom, right and top
798 - output HiResBoundingBox
799 - never reduce bbox upon output
801 - new constructor signature, more in line with rest of PyX:
802 epsfile(x, y, filename, **additional_args)
804 - removed additional column support in addcolumn; removed _addcolumn
805 - line reduction for datafile like the every parameter in gnuplot
807 - new way of PS prolog generation that writes only necessary parts
808 - added support for patterns
809 - canvas.insert() now supports arguments
810 - bbox of canvas can be specified in writetofile command explicitely
811 - writetofile does not return self anymore
812 - arrow template now uses intersection with circle to get size right
813 (as per a suggestion by Michael Schindler)
816 - changed the handling of extern functions and all variables
818 - gradient renamed to palette
820 - problem with sizefile on windows (tex module)
821 - allow for strings in graphxy's width and height; allow for width only (graph module)
822 - disable rating for labelattrs equals None (graph module)
823 - defaultstyle selection, when a list of data is provided to the plot function (graph module)
824 - traverse when adding functions as arguments of operators (mathtree module)
825 - allow for extern functions in addcolumn (data module)
826 - just one common place for the version number
827 - fix incorrect exception name MathError (path module)
828 - prevent double return of intersections for closed sub paths
833 - allow division of length by numbers
835 - new transformation: slant
836 - renamed all trafo methods to use the participle (i.e translate->translated)
837 - the name of all trafo subclasses are verbs (i.e. translation->translate)
839 - mark class renamed to symbol
840 - (text-)box distance measurement
841 - moved axis partitioning to axis and axis painter
842 - automatic axis partitioning (now officially: general cleanup, distance measurement, documentation)
844 - baraxis, baraxispainter, and bar style
846 - previously named datafile module
847 - class "_datafile" renamed to class "data"
848 - class sectionfile added
851 - extern variables and functions (support in graph.function, graph.paramfunction and data.data)
854 - deferred to Version 0.3
855 - running TeX "on the fly" is basically implemented
857 - transformation bug (#624068, trafo module)
858 - canvas transformations (canvas module???)
859 - textbox alignment (graph module)
860 - return linewidth upon calculation with linewidths (unit module)
861 - allow column number variables with several digits
863 - british and american spellings (color module, graph module)
864 - small logo modifications