2 - Requires at least Python 3.2
4 - cygwin LaTeX with windows python patch (thanks to Sybren A. Stüvel)
6 - fix numerical instability of line clippings
8 - apply text trafos to each character in curvedtext (reported by Hans L)
9 - properly apply all textattrs in curvedtext (for example colors or scalings)
11 - layer method takes layer names above or below (instead of an instance),
12 also reorders layer accordingly when layer is already existing
13 - remove the before and after arguments of insert
14 - handle trafo and clip separately in constructor and write methods
15 - allow for one clipping instance only
16 - optimize graphics state stack usage
18 - change special handling for transformations and colors to use subcanvases
19 - apply transformations to markers
20 - trafos and styles are no longer canvasitems
22 - fillrules are now fillstyles and handled within the PS/PDF context
24 - new texenc setting (TODO documentation)
25 - font/afmfile module:
26 - parse more AFM files, also some with common inconsistencies (thanks to
27 Markus Schwienbacher for reporting these issues)
29 - functiongradient has been split into functiongradient_rgb, etc. and
30 the function parameters are now passed directly
31 - lineargradient has been removed for factory functions lineargradient_rgb, etc.
32 that provide linear gradients between colors of a particular color model
34 - use APPDATA environment variable to locate the pyxrc on windows
38 - fix drawing and clipping of gradient style
42 - insert method now returns canvas wrapping item if attrs are given
43 - insert method allows specification of position where item is inserted
44 by before and after arguments
45 - new layer method allows creation of separated drawing layers for
46 grouping of drawing operations
47 - writeXXXfile methods now use "page_" and "write_" prefixes for passing
48 the keyword arguments to the page constructor and write method
49 - pipeGS now returns a file handle instead of writing to a file or to stdout
50 - the new method writeGSfile restores the previous pipeGS functionality
51 - support rendering as png for use in IPython notebooks (as suggested by
54 - writeXXXfile methods now support writing to stdout when filename is set
56 - type 1 font modules:
57 - allow font slanting for T1builtinfont instances
58 - improve stripped font compatibility
59 - remove UniqueID lookup from embedded fonts in PostScript output (fixes
60 missing glyph issue with dvips and certain fonts)
61 - allow Type1 font usage without TeX and without AFM font metric
62 - add support for pfm font matrices
64 - fix race condition while generating bitmap for PDF inclusion
65 - fix file opening for bbox reading when using filelocator (reported by
68 - fix text mode line ending issue for MS Windows
70 - fix subprocess call on MS Windows (closefds not functional not also
72 - fix pyxgraphics functionality because at least some versions of graphics
73 and friends seem to expect the file extension .def for the driver files
74 (thanks to Michael J Gruber)
76 - decorator to put text along a path; based on a patch by Michael J Gruber
78 - fix for MS Windows: open virtual font files in binary mode
81 - uses new canvas layers to stack graph components (fixing bug #1518414,
82 reported by Dominic Ford)
83 - add a flipped option to graphxy to exchange x and y coordinates
84 - add a 1d graph "graphx" (use case: convert a value to a color)
85 - add hiddenaxes layer to the 3d graph
86 - add linkedaxes for the xy-plane in 3d like in 2d (works now properly due
87 to the hiddenaxes feature)
90 - add gradient style to convert a value to a color using a 1d graph
91 - add a usenames dictionary to the pos style (like rangepos had it already)
93 - add a join data provide which adds concatenates several data sources
95 - divisor was not properly taken into account in tick handling (axis
96 range extension and range rating)
97 - added the metapost module:
98 - create smooth paths from a series of points
100 - new fundamental constructor based on arbitrary affine transformations
101 - add ASCIIHexDecode end marker
103 - add rgbgradient and cmykgradient to force color space
105 - add ASCIIHexDecode end marker
107 - upgrade PyX project page to the Allura platform
112 - fix pipeGS (adding support for writing using pycompat.popen)
114 - arrow decorator: proper sign of constriction length for positioning
118 - increase designsize deviation to 4 (needs some further investigation)
120 - fixes due to the dvi and font restructuring
122 - fix build process for extension modules
123 - fix download url to allow for easy_install (hopefully)
125 - converted to sphinx
129 - font and dvi modules:
130 - major reorganization
131 - TeX mapping files are a property of the writer now
132 By that the pdfwriter now uses pdftex.map instead of psfonts.map
133 (It's also possible to pass a fontmap to a texrunners text method to use
134 different mappings within a single output file)
135 - support for font matrices (afm) for Type1 fonts
136 (using fonts without a metrics is still supported, but properly issues
138 - interface for basic TeX-less text output
139 - new PS and PDF writer options: strip_fonts, text_as_path, mesh_as_bitmap,
140 mesh_as_bitmap_resolution
141 - fix for commented out UniqueID
142 - fix rounding of font sizes
143 - fix scaling of VF position increments
144 - new filelocator module
146 - bar style on graphxyz (single datasets only)
148 - fix position of z4 axis
149 - set correct errorname for z axis (thanks to Axel Freyn)
150 - fix wrong y value usage instead of z value in pos methods
151 - fix unused color range settings in surface style (thanks to Michael J Gruber)
152 - fallbackrange for axes with vanishing range
153 - dokeyitem method (to be called with a plotitem) to alter the key order
154 - doplot() was renamed to doplotitem(), dodata() was renamed to doplot()
155 to have similar naming conventions like for the graph key
156 - axis module: do not divide by None for data.min and/or data.max being None (see patch #2833369)
158 - properly rotate axis titles when ticks are not othorgonal
159 to the axis (reported by Christian Delfosse)
160 - correct namedirection in bar axis painter (reported by rhunger, bug #2028032)
161 - graph.style.arrow: decorator is an parameter of the constructor now
162 (thanks to Axel Freyn)
163 - remove ticks with unset ticklevel and labellevel to prevent rating failures
164 (thanks to Brendon Higgins)
165 - canvas and document modules:
166 - auto-guess output filename from the script filename
167 - add ciecolor flag and input type to the pipeGS method of canvas
169 - new config options for psfontmaps and pdffontmaps
170 - new config option for formatting of Python warnings
171 - new config section for new filelocator module
173 - fix two bugs in the read pipe of the texrunner (thanks to
174 Laurence Tratt and Eric Faurot)
175 - fix "<" token handling in mapping file parser (thanks to Matthew West)
176 - fix start message parse error in MiKTeX (thanks to Wojciech Jaskowski)
177 - fix rigid aux file checking (thanks to Clayton E. Myers)
178 - use subprocess module if available
179 - proper error messages when TeX is stopped due to unrecoverable error
181 - implement style.fillrule
183 - added an explicit hatch pattern as an alternative for real postscript patterns
184 - arrow decorator: take into account constriction length when arrow pos < 1
186 - add support for transparent bitmaps (in postscript stencil masking only)
187 - path and normpath modules:
188 - remove incorrect zero length line in PDF output for each first moveto
189 path element (thanks to Michael J Gruber)
190 - raise correct normpath exception (thanks to Axel Freyn)
192 - an ugly way to import EPS in PDF using a bitmap (requires PIL)
198 - graphxyz for 3d graphs with parallel and central projection
199 - doplot method (to be called with a plotitem) to alter the plotitem order etc.
201 - new surface style for 3d graphs (colored surfaces are functional
202 (and useful!) for 2d graphs as well)
203 - new grid style for 3d graphs
205 - optional textdx/textdy columns to the text style added
206 - arrowpos parameter to the arrow style added
207 - bugfix: fromvalue axis range adjustment in histogram style
208 - bugfix: axis range adjustment in range style
210 - painter: don't insert axis title twice (thanks to Tim Gray for reporting this problem)
211 - parter: extend the logarithmic parter to calculate automatic partitions for huge ranges
212 (TODO: documentation of the new autoexponent parameter) (suggested by Dominic Ford)
213 - fix: range rating was not taken into account due in the 0.9 release
215 - list class was renamed to points; deprecation warning added
216 for instance creation, but inheritance from list failes
219 - internal helper module for efficient handling of triangular colored meshs
221 - renamed: palette->gradient, functionpalette->functiongradient, linearpalette->lineargradient
222 - new class palette representing a discrete ordered list of colors
223 - support transparency for filling/stroking in pdf separately
224 - transparency support for postscript as available by means of a proprietary
225 ghostscript extension (for ps2pdf)
226 - renamed method: tostring8bit -> to8bitstring (bug #2932888)
228 - add multichangeattr to perform a select on different changeable attributes
229 depending on the selects total number
232 - add missing glyph traversal in t1seacs updatepath
234 - support zero-length normsubpaths
236 - don't change order of attrs passed to canvas constructor in place
237 - added __truediv__ methods according to PEP 238
241 - most important changes (to be included in the release notes):
242 - mathtree removal (warning about integer division)
243 - barpos style does not build tuples for nestedbar axes automatically
244 - new deformers for path manipulation (for smoothing, shifting, ... paths)
246 - new framework for font handling
247 - own implementation of type1 font stripping (old pdftex code fragments removed)
248 - complete type1 font command representation and glyph path extraction from font programs
249 - t1code extension module (C version of de-/encoding routines used in Type 1 font files)
253 - mathtree removal: more flexibility due to true python expressions
254 - default style instantiation bug (reported by Gregory Novak)
256 - automatic subaxis tuple creation removed in barpos (create tuples
257 in expressions now; subnames argument removed since it became pointless;
258 adujstaxis became independend from selectstyle for all styles now)
259 - remove multiple painting of frompath in histogram and barpos styles
260 - fix missing attribute select when using a bar style once only (reported by Alan Isaac)
261 - fix histograms for negative y-coordinates (reported by Dominic Ford, bug #1492548)
262 - fix histogram to stroke lines to the baseline for steps=0 when two subsequent values are equal
263 - add key method for histogram style (reported by Hagemann, bug #1371554)
264 - implement a changebar style
265 - graph, axis and style module:
266 - support for mutual linking of axes between graphs
267 - new domethods dependency handling
268 - separate axis range calculation from dolayout
269 - axis.parter module:
270 - linear and logarthmic partitioners always need lists now
271 (as it was documented all the time; renamed tickdist/labeldist
272 to tickdists/labeldists; renamed tickpos/labelpos to
273 tickpreexps/labelpreexps)
275 - patch to tickpos and vtickpos (reported by Wojciech Smigaj, cf. patch #1286112)
276 - anchoredpathaxis added (suggested by Wojciech Smigaj)
277 - properly handle range rating on inversed axis (reported by Dominic Ford, cf. bug #1461513)
278 - invalidate axis partitions with a single label only by the distance rater
279 - fallback (with warning) to linear partitioner on a small logarithmics scale
281 - patch to allow for tickattrs=None (reported by Wojciech Smigaj, cf. patch #1286116)
283 - transparency support (PDF only)
284 - conversion between colorspaces
285 - nonlinear palettes added
286 - the former palette must now be initialized as linearpalette
287 - remove min and max arguments of palettes
289 - improve escapestring to handle all ascii characters
290 - correct vshift when text size is modified by a text.size instance
291 - recover from exceptions (reported by Alan Isaac)
292 - handle missing italic angle information in tfm for pdf output (reported by Brett Calcott)
293 - allow for .def and .fd files in texmessage.loaddef (new name for
294 texmessage.loadfd, which was restricted to .fd files)
296 - correct closepath (do not invalidate currentpoint but set it to the
297 beginning of the current subpath); structural rework of pathitems
298 - calculate real bboxes for Bezier curves
299 - fix intersection due to non-linear parametrization of bezier curves
300 - add rotate methods to path, normpath, normsubpath, and normsubpathitems
301 - add flushskippedline to normsubpath
302 - add arclentoparam to normsubpath and normsubpathitems
303 - path is no longer a canvasitem
304 - reduce number of parameters of outputPS/outputPDF methods (do not pass context and registry)
306 - contains normpath, normsubpath and normpathparam which have originally
307 been in the path module
308 - return "invalid" for certain path operations when the curve "speed" is
309 below a certain threshold
310 - normpath is no longer a canvasitem
311 - reduce number of parameters of outputPS/outputPDF methods (do not pass context and registry)
313 - rewritten smoothed to make use of the subnormpath facilities
314 - rewritten parallel for arbitrary paths
316 - add basic text decorator
317 - allow arrows at arbitrary positions along the path
319 - boxdists parameter need to be a list/tuple of two items now
320 - changed the orientation of the angle parameters
322 - renamed _apply to apply_pt
323 - introduce _epsilon for checking the singularity of a trafo
325 - use rectclip instead of clip to remove the clipping path from the
326 PostScript stack, which otherwise might create strange effects for
327 certain PostScript files (reported by Gert Ingold)
329 - silently ignore TrueType fonts in font mapping files (reported by Gabriel Vasseur)
331 - accept [ and ] as separators in encoding files (reported by Mojca Miklavec, cf. bug #1429524)
333 - remove registerPS/registerPDF in favour of registering resourcing during the outputPS/outputPDF run
334 - move bbox handling to registry
335 - rename outputPS/outputPDF -> processPS/processPDF
336 - remove set method of canvas
337 - add a pipeGS method to directly pass the PyX output to ghostscript
338 - allow file instances as parameter of the writeXXXfile methods (feature request #1419658 by Jason Pratt)
340 - allow file instances as parameter of the writeXXXfile methods (feature request #1419658 by Jason Pratt)
342 - make rellength the default for dash styles
344 - switched to subversion on 2006/03/09
348 - fix bug in postscript deco code for stroking only attributes
350 - fix multicurveto._normalized
351 - fix path.paramtoarclen and path.paramtoarclen_pt
352 - remove unused method-local function
353 - fix linestyle rellength in PostScript
354 - correction to the rounding problems in circles (reported by Uwe Fabricius)
358 - issue a warning when not using a stroke color for patterns
360 - postpone PDFfontdescriptor information, since it raises an error on certain
361 fonts even when PostScript output was requested (reported by Gert Ingold)
362 - remove spurious spaces when checking for empty texmessages
364 - caching in fallback to lower system call bottleneck
366 - add missing writePSfile wrapper
367 - add *args to writeEPSfile and writePDFfile wrappers
369 - writebbox option to write bbox information (disabled by default)
370 even when a paper format is specified (PS and PDF writers only)
371 - use arclen in spring example
373 - use pdf graphic files for pdf version of the manual
374 - use PyX to create tipa fallbacks for FAQ
375 - correct description regarding the manual in the README file
379 - changed requirements to python 2.1 or newer:
380 - nested scopes are needed without fallback solution by the path module
381 (at other places fallback solutions for missing nested scopes are missing as well)
382 - use warning module for warnings
384 - path parameters and argument handling
385 - the arct to arc/arcn conversion (needed for bbox calculation and for conversion into
386 normpath) has been fixed
387 - document module: new
388 - container classes for document and pages
389 - document.paperformat class (strings are deprecated)
391 - writeEPSfile wraps a canvas in a single page document and performs the output
395 - completely rewritten: support for fonts and patterns has been added
396 - pswriter module: new
397 - separate PS output from canvas
398 - new signature of outputPS methods: writer and context are passed as additional
401 - allow selection on zero range palette (reported by Francisco Borges, cf. bug #1116257)
402 - prolog module: removed due to code reorganisation
404 - modifications on __init__.py in graph and axis subdirectories to
405 make "from pyx.graph import *" working as expected
407 - addontop added to stackedbarpos
408 - column -> columnname renaming where appropriate
409 - histogram style added
411 - function needs explicit variable definition (implicit variable definition is deprecated)
412 - column names are inherited by data.data() except when copy=0;
413 unused columns are silently ignored now
414 - dynamic function data on a logarithmic axis uses isinstance check now
415 (although it removes the only (mis)use of axis.inverse, it is a
416 temporary solution only)
418 - extend graph keys to allow for several columns
419 - axis data handling refactoring:
420 - introcuded an axis positioner (module graph.axis.positioner)
421 - introduced anchoredaxis to make axis data and positioning local to a graph
422 - linkedaxis is a special version of anchoredaxis and is generic
423 (it uses the new linkpainter provided by an axis)
424 - unification of split and bar axes;
425 removed some black magic in baraxis in favor of a nestedbar axis
426 - x linked to x2 etc. is now possible
427 - axis.inverse was removed (the only place it was (mis)used was by a function)
429 - allow to transform axis after layout
430 - [xy]axisat arguments in the constructor to easily move [xy]-axes
431 to a position defined the orthogonal axis
432 - remove axispos (use the axis dictionary now, since it now contains
433 anchored axis instances and those have shortcuts for the axis positioner
436 - tfm->dvi conversion rounding bugfix
437 - fix parsing of empty strings ("") in fontmap files (reported by John Owens, bug #1218983)
439 - support for halign of boxes and content of boxes (see halign example)
440 - take units xscale into account in parbox
441 - messageparser for replaced fontsizes: Warning -> implemented by texmessage.fontwarning
442 - messageparser for size differences at the end: Warning not Exception -> implemented by texmessage.fontwarning
443 - messageparser for overfull/underfull vbox/hbox: Warning not Exception -> implemented by texmessage.boxwarning
444 - dvicopy flag removed
445 - allow argument of set to be None
446 - rename nomathmode and nophantom to clearmathmode and clearphantom
447 - texmessagepattern for easy creation of simple TeX message parsers
448 - allow long file names in file checking TeX message parsers
449 - no newline removal to not disturbe TeX messages when reporting errors
450 - reworked documentation to use the python documentation standards
452 - linewidth is no longer a unit.length subclass but expects a such as first argument
454 - correct EOL handling while reading DSC's (reported by Markus Meyer)
455 - pattern module: new
456 - moved canvas.pattern to its own module together with the new PDFpattern class
457 - add some default patterns: hatched and crosshatched
459 - improve the smoothing deformer
460 - add a parallel deformer
462 - the very old tex module finally got removed completely
464 - a simple converter from dvi to EPS/PS/PDF files (dviconvert.py) has been added
465 - a simple imagine to EPS/PS/PDF converter (imgconvert.py) has been added
466 - a simple dvitype.py has been added
467 - update address of FSF all over the place
472 - EPS header fixed (reported by Russell Lang, cf. bug #1065099)
474 - use CURDIR instead of PWD (reported by David M. Cooke, bug #1070285)
476 - support windows line endings (patch by Hans-Andreas Engel, cf. bug #1071160)
478 - line attributes handling fixed (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
479 - fix typos in predefined symbols (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
480 - cut column name list at the max. number of columns (reported by Arnd Baecker)
482 - add INDEX and README files to distribution
483 - new errorbar and julia example
485 - pdf snippets for tipa based phonetic transliterations
490 - new module for inclusion of bitmap images
492 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
493 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
495 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
496 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
497 - enlarge was misspelled as enlarged
498 - renamed _bbox -> bbox_pt
499 - new bbox method center, which returns the coordinates of the center
501 - enlarge and enlarged do no longer interprete unqualified lengths as
504 - unit.cm, unit.t_cm, etc. are no longer sub classes but instances
506 - never convert implicitly into visual/width, etc. lengths (this is more
507 about usage of the unit module in various other modules) (TODO: update
509 - support for string initialization removed
510 - support for initialisation with other length removed
511 - lengths can now be divided by other lengths (as suggested by Michael Gruber
512 and Magnus Lie Hetland)
514 - postpone reading of fontmap files until TeX/LaTeX is started
515 - sign of font number in dvifile (reported by Michael Gruber)
518 - added new classes page and document for multipage PostScript output
519 - apply deformers (instead of trafos) in draw method
521 - decrease interval for dotted and dash-dotted lines for better visual
523 - setup.py and distribution:
524 - create siteconfig on install to store positions of the shared data
527 - graph style + data reorganization
528 - modularization of the graph styles by separating data handling and drawing tasks
529 - several graph styles can now be combined together
530 - graph data can internally now combine different data sources
531 (by that, some nasty side effects could have been removed)
532 - enum -> num renaming
533 - allow for horizontally and vertically centered graph key alignment and a key background
534 - fix bug that graph was not finished automatically when a bbox was specified
535 manually (reported by David Barton)
537 - pathel -> pathitem, etc. renaming
538 - methods accepting a parameter value / arc length now also allow the user to
539 pass a tuple (subpath, param) / (subpath, arclen)
540 - normpath constructor no longer accepts a path or normpath as argument but only a list
541 of normsubpaths. Use the new normpath method of the path instead to construct a normpath
543 - normsubpath can now deal with short (i.e. shorter than epsilon) segments correctly
544 - the intersect and split methods of normpath and normsubpath have been completely rewritten and
545 now take the accuracy epsilon correctly into account. Note that for a closed subpath the
546 split function now returns the segment containing the closing point as first element
547 in the result list (before, it was returned as last element).
548 - normsubpathitems and normsubpath now implement much more methods also provided by
549 path and normpath instances
550 - normpath.append no longer accepts pathitems but only normsubpaths
551 - deformer module: new
552 - moved cycloid and smoothed from deco into deformer
554 - handle "BoundingBox: (atend)" (cf. bug #945621 reported by Jim Boyle)
555 - kpsearch option to search for file using the kpathsea library (contributed by Michael Gruber)
557 - PSCmd and PSOp are now joined in a new class canvasitem
559 - decorated path no longer allows modification of its path
560 - new method excluderange which allows to remove certain parameter ranges from the stroked path
561 - additional canvas provided by decorated path is now called ornaments
562 - constriction=None now indicates an arrowhead without constriction
564 - trafos are now deformers
566 - a bunch of bargraph examples have been added
571 - fix errorbar range adjustment
572 - fix empty tick lists bug (reported by Marko Vendelin, cf. bug #977323)
573 - graph/style module:
574 - symbolline drawing order in graph key (cf. bug #990687)
576 - access to builtin list (reported by Marcus Mendenhall, cf. bug #1042458)
581 - fix drawing with background
582 - fix insertion of a zero length path when the whole line is outside
583 the valid axis range (reported by Marko Vendelin)
585 - include source for faq and manual
586 - distribute the pdf instead of postscript (manual, faq, examples)
591 - fixed title=None + graph key issue reported by Gabriel Vasseur
592 - graph.axis.painter.plain -> graph.axis.painter.regular
593 (as it was in parts of the documentation already)
594 - changeable-gridattrs-become-None-bug fixed
595 - graph style cutting outside lines (double-)fixed
599 - fixes missing install of the graph and axis directories introduced in 0.6
600 - some minor updates to the faq
605 - reorganisation of the graph structure finished (there might be some
606 small pending issues, but the basic restructuring is done with this release):
607 - graph splitted into several modules in pyx/graph and pyx/graph/axis
608 - painters are using the new attribute scheme including changeable
610 - graph styles rewrite
612 - axis zeropath feature has been removed
613 - mergelabels removed; linpart doesn't have a label argument anymore
614 - names and texts removed from baraxis
615 - iteration on graph style, when it is used several times in the same graph
616 - symbols + lines -> symbollines; symbols do not allow setting lineattrs,
617 and lines not symbolattrs
618 - manual line clipping (do not include unneeded line segments when the
619 axis range is set manually etc.)
620 - automatic file key titles
621 - graph.data now also includes the old data module
622 - data.list adds (by default) a line number like data.file
623 (thus regular columns are counted from 1)
625 - added new pathels multilineto_pt and multicurveto which allows to specify
626 a list of points and can thus be much more efficient
627 - internal methods return coordinates in pts
628 - arclentoparam returns only parameters not total length
629 - added path.arclength_pt, path.at_pt, path.begin_pt, path.end_pt (and
630 correspondingly for normpath)
631 - complete refactoring of the normpath class: normpaths now consist of
632 normsubpaths which themselves consist of normlines and normcurves This is
633 much more convenient for any routines working with normpaths.
634 - reversing of closed sub paths does not change the first point of the sub
636 - renamed: arclength -> arclen
637 - renamed: lentopar -> arclentoparam
638 - renamed: glue -> joined
639 - normpath now supports join, the in-place version of joined
640 - path and normpath method raise exception instead of returning None
641 when parameter is out of range
642 - the accuracy epsilon can now only be specified in normpath and normsubpath
643 constructor and no longer in arguments of path and normpath methods
644 - negative parameters are no longer supported in path and normpath methods
645 - path and normpath methods which accept parameter value param now
646 alternatively accept an arc length
650 - arrow heads are no longer stroked (as suggested by Magnus Lie Hetland)
652 - writeEPSfile deprecates writetofile
653 - internally, write methods are renamed in outputPS
654 - canvas constructor no longer accepts variable argument list but
655 expects a list of attrs as first argument (defaulting to []) and
656 a texrunner as second argument (defaulting to text.defaulttexrunner)
657 - set, draw, stroke and fill no longer return self, i.e., the canvas, but None
659 - added inplace add (__iadd__), enlarge and transform methods
660 - callers use inplace add where possible now (yielding a considerable
662 - "undefined" corners of bounding boxes are no longer supported which makes
663 the bounding box operations much more efficient.
665 - renamed _xxx -> xxx_pt
667 - removed showbbox argument of epsfile class
669 - default handling of texmessages as in the new attribute scheme
670 - multiple insert bug fixed
671 - made left, right, width, height, depth information available (x length
672 not taking into account box transformations)
673 - ignore tex message "Please type a command or say `\\end'"
674 - added textboxes that are sequentially filled (experimental)
676 - mandel.py (contributed by Stephen Phillips)
678 - length comparision (David Beach)
682 - switched to the new parser using pythons parser module
684 - removed, it all lives in the graph.data module now, while before it
685 was splitted into two separate modules
687 - not imported by default anymore
688 - obsolete warning when importing this module
692 - include missing c-files for optional extension modules
694 - fix unpaired BeginProcSet/EndProcSet in font enconding
697 - setup.py and distribution:
698 - allow customization of the extension modules built (via setup.cfg)
699 - disable building pykpathsea module by default
700 - more detailed description of install process in INSTALL
701 - provide more information and pointers to other files in README
702 - include example data files in distribution (suggested by Andrea Riciputi)
703 - force dvips to write ps files instead of printing them (suggested by Otto Tronarp)
704 - includ pyxfaq.pdf in distribution
706 - improved is-readable test for lfs files and pyx.def file
707 - explicitly quit (La)TeX in cleantmp (helps when quitting with <Ctrl>C)
708 - showwaitfortex implemented following a suggestion by Fernando Perez
709 (waitfortex is increased to 60 seconds now)
710 - support of TeX extension --ipc for reading dvi results while TeX keeps running
711 - configurable font mapping files (via pyxrc or parameter of the texrunner constructor)
712 - markers to get access to positions within TeX expressions
713 - fix: allow for e-tex in texmessage.start (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
714 - fix: print warning at syntax errors in font mapping file and continue (cf. bug #795271)
715 - remove limitation on number of fonts in dvi file
716 - added native virtual font support
717 - dvicopy support not needed anymore (it is still available, but obsolete and
718 removed from the documentation)
719 - do not include too many glyphs in the eps file
720 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
721 - dvifile module (NEW):
722 - separated from the text module
723 - dvifile class returns standard pyx canvas instances on readpage
725 - removed manualpart and partitioners mix keyword
726 - results of the splitting at "=" in graph.function were not stripped
727 - skip title=None in key (cf. bug #821284), properly align a single key entry
728 - another (the last?!) axis redesign: axispos -> class of its own
729 - some axispos name have changed slightly (zeroline -> zeropath etc.)
730 - tick/data-vmin/vmax removed
733 - minor enhancements in exponentionaltexter
734 - axes alongs paths including a set of examples
735 - mixing a partitioner and manual ticks by two distinct keyword arguments now
736 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
737 - part -> parter renaming
739 - stroke, fill, draw, set and insert do no longer accept variable length argument lists but
740 an attribute list as last argument
741 - stroke and fill now support trafos (TODO: documentation)
742 - uppercase version of a4, a3, ... paperformats
744 - new module for loading PyX configuration information
746 - automatically import main modules into pyx namespace as suggested by Fernando
749 - check for sorting of parameter list passed to path.split method
750 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
752 - contains decoratedpath and decorators from canvas module
753 - all predefined decorators are instances now (deco.stroked is thus ok) and
754 attributes have to be passed explicitely, e.g., deco.earrow.small(attrs=color.rgb.red)
755 and deco.stroked([color.rgb.blue])
756 - style module (NEW):
757 - contains all line- and fillstyles which formerly had been defined in the canvas module
758 - dash now supports relative dash lengths (as suggested by Otto Tronarp)
760 - fixed incorrect handling of - (for instance -x**2 was not negative)
762 - contents have been moved to the (obsolete) tex module, which was the only user anyhow, and
763 the module itself was removed
765 - new fallback solution in pure python
766 - bugfix: pyxadapt.h needs to open files binary under Windows (reported by Gary Pajer)
768 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
770 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
774 - "in" to "inch" in paperformats
776 - fix pyx.def hack occuring whenever \ProcessOptions* was used by a package
778 - implement different file formats for Python version of module
780 - python fallback solution should behave the same way as c extension module (closes SF bug #799182 reported
781 by Marcus Mendenhall)
783 - added "connector" to __all__
787 - separate texter out of the axispainter
788 - axis/partitioner/texter/painter/axispos redesign & interfaces
789 - tick.text is renamed to tick.label
790 - ticks and labels are renamed to tickpos/tickdist and labelpos/labeldist in partitioning
791 - ticks can be used in the part to mix a partitioner with some manual ticks
792 -> manualpart and the mix technique is not needed anymore
793 (both things are still available and working, but they will be removed in the future)
794 - _ensurefrac is implemented inside the frac constructor now; initialization is possible by:
795 - a (enum, denom) tuple now (previously there were two arguments)
796 - a string (as before via _ensurefrac)
797 - exponential strings are allowed as well (e.g. "1e10" etc.)
798 - a float (precision is determined by floatprecision -- the number of decimal places)
803 - reset() method for the texrunner
804 - automatic restart of a TeX instance with the same preamble (preamble changes are not possible)
805 - texmessage.loadfd for accepting font description loading
806 - don't bail out on width_index == 0, but mark character invalid instead
808 - support for specials; pyxgraphics flag
809 - support psfonts.map: font names, font encodings
810 - bugfix \def\ProcessPyXBox -> \long\def\ProcessPyXBox
811 - improved lfs handling
813 - full documentation via doc strings
815 - some preliminary version
817 - multiple radii (up to two per point) and softnesses
818 - ensurecenter added --- do we always force the creation of a center?
820 - lentopar methods added including some tests
822 - new parameter bbox allows to override the bounding box of the eps file
826 - derive TFMError and DVIError correctly from exceptions.Exception
827 - close files and pipes, if they are no longer used (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
828 - remove DeprecationWarning in Python 2.3 (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
830 - correct rounding algorithm (Michael Schindler)
832 - refer to the graphs texrunner instead of the defaulttexrunner (cf. #728209)
833 - rounding towards zero bugfix in autolinpart
834 - log axis range rating bugfix
836 - addarg bugs (#738724)
838 - fix mixing up of height and width in scale calculation
839 - and various other fixer here and there
843 - fix bug in dvi rule code where width was height
844 - fix preamble attribute checking bug
845 - fix texmessage.load pattern search instead of pattern match bug
846 - renamed vbox to parbox (was done in 0.3 partially only)
848 - allow for tuples in arguments of the data class
849 - convenience: exchanged order of named parameters in data.data
851 - convenience: allow for part=None in _axis (base of linaxis and logaxis)
853 - added a latex example (requested)
854 - added a attributechange example (requested)
855 - added back the integral example (requested; prior PyX 0.3 it was part of the user manual)
856 - small change in vector example (allow for the access to the texrunner)
857 - examples included in source distribution
859 - correct arrow template calculation for very short paths
863 - new easy to use example generation (will hopefully lead to nice examples)
865 - new module for handling of convex polygons (taken out of the graph module)
867 - new module containing a collection of helper functions (taken out of the graph module)
868 - moved the attrlist into helper -- as plain functions; attrlist becomes obsolete
870 - new module: a new and preferable integration of TeX/LaTeX
872 - strip glyphs from pfa/pfb-fonts
873 - there is a C implementation taken from pdftex
874 - fallback solution via an external program (pfb2pfa)
876 - (partial) C binding to libkpathsea
877 - fallback solution via an external program (kpsewhich)
879 - removed some code duplication (various axis painters)
880 - use text module instead of the obsolete tex module
881 - allow for tailing zeros of automatic generated labels
882 - allow for missing data in bar graphs -> skipmissing parameter
883 - remove the support for variables given as keyword arguments in data constructor
884 - use context instead of extern for extern variables and functions
885 - graph keys; titles in data/function/etc.
887 - new classes for visual and width lengths, aliases for user length (u_pt = pt)
888 - all length classes have now by default a quantifier 1 (instead of 0), such that,
889 for instance, 5*unit.t_cm() == unit.t_cm(5)
890 - default_unit now has to be set via unit.set. For instance: unit.set(defaultunit="m").
891 - convert_to is now an internal function, which moreover does not longer accept tuples or lists
893 - new class _bbox (the former bbox) which accepts points in the constructor. This is used
894 for internal purposes.
895 - the bbox constructor now accepts user lengths in the constructor.
896 - new methods height, width, top, bottom, left, right
897 - ll & ur ???, what about ul and lr -> ugly!
898 - enlarge (was enhance) now allows selective enlargement to the left, bottom, right and top
899 - output HiResBoundingBox
900 - never reduce bbox upon output
902 - new constructor signature, more in line with rest of PyX:
903 epsfile(x, y, filename, **additional_args)
905 - removed additional column support in addcolumn; removed _addcolumn
906 - line reduction for datafile like the every parameter in gnuplot
908 - new way of PS prolog generation that writes only necessary parts
909 - added support for patterns
910 - canvas.insert() now supports arguments
911 - bbox of canvas can be specified in writetofile command explicitely
912 - writetofile does not return self anymore
913 - arrow template now uses intersection with circle to get size right
914 (as per a suggestion by Michael Schindler)
917 - changed the handling of extern functions and all variables
919 - gradient renamed to palette
921 - problem with sizefile on windows (tex module)
922 - allow for strings in graphxy's width and height; allow for width only (graph module)
923 - disable rating for labelattrs equals None (graph module)
924 - defaultstyle selection, when a list of data is provided to the plot function (graph module)
925 - traverse when adding functions as arguments of operators (mathtree module)
926 - allow for extern functions in addcolumn (data module)
927 - just one common place for the version number
928 - fix incorrect exception name MathError (path module)
929 - prevent double return of intersections for closed sub paths
934 - allow division of length by numbers
936 - new transformation: slant
937 - renamed all trafo methods to use the participle (i.e translate->translated)
938 - the name of all trafo subclasses are verbs (i.e. translation->translate)
940 - mark class renamed to symbol
941 - (text-)box distance measurement
942 - moved axis partitioning to axis and axis painter
943 - automatic axis partitioning (now officially: general cleanup, distance measurement, documentation)
945 - baraxis, baraxispainter, and bar style
947 - previously named datafile module
948 - class "_datafile" renamed to class "data"
949 - class sectionfile added
952 - extern variables and functions (support in graph.function, graph.paramfunction and data.data)
955 - deferred to Version 0.3
956 - running TeX "on the fly" is basically implemented
958 - transformation bug (#624068, trafo module)
959 - canvas transformations (canvas module???)
960 - textbox alignment (graph module)
961 - return linewidth upon calculation with linewidths (unit module)
962 - allow column number variables with several digits
964 - british and american spellings (color module, graph module)
965 - small logo modifications