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