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