5 - make dash length available
7 - repair PDF generation with unincluded standard fonts (currently broken)
8 - change DSC in PS fonts: Resource instead of Font (also in pswriter)
9 - SlantFont & Co support
10 - keep an eye on PEP 324 (popen 5): it could make the texrunner much easier
11 - discuss reltransform: https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9137692&forum_id=23700
12 - add encoding; check whether encoding=ascii works well for the common existing cases
13 - write graphics driver for pgf.sty from LaTeX
14 - ignore "(Please type a command or say `\end')" in preamble method
15 - properly handle file names with spaces in (like "C:\program files\texmf\tex\latex\base\article.cls" in
18 - common bboxes for different graphs
19 - 3d graphs, circular graphs
20 - axis painter labelattrs=None + automatic axis partitioning leads to no valid partitioning
21 - when all titles are None, a graph key currently raises an exception
22 - translatecanvas should be the default in graph.style.symbol
23 - automatic scaling of y-axis according to subset of data shown on x-axis
24 - graph.axis.timeaxis.timetick must not override datetime.datetime __init__ method (since datetime.datetime
25 instances are immutable like ints)
26 - graph.style and graph.data modules
27 - fix docu of gridattrs functionality of axis painters
28 (how can one, e.g. draw a grid at the ticks and not at the subticks)
29 - make graph.style.symbol.diamond a graph.style.symbol instance (to be discussed)
31 - use csv module (new in 2.3)
32 - Check for "inf" and "nan" in datafiles.
33 (When plotted, the graph does not complain, but the output will be broken;
34 this depends on the plattform and is not only an issue within the graph system)
36 - add styles using curves instead of lines
37 - graph.texter module:
38 - rename period argument of decimal texters to recurring_decimal or something similar (as pointed out
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 - 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
90 - describe creation and modification (inplace and ``modify by new'') of
94 - type 1 font modules:
95 - allow font slanting for T1builtinfont instances
96 - improve stripped font compatibility
97 - remove UniqueID lookup from embedded fonts in PostScript output (fixes
98 missing glyph issue with dvips and certain fonts)
99 - allow Type1 font usage without TeX and without AFM font metric
100 - add support for pfm font matrices
102 - fix raise condition while generating bitmap for PDF inclusion
103 - fix file opening for bbox reading when using filelocator (reported by
105 - filelocator module:
106 - fix text mode line ending issue for MS Windows
108 - fix subprocess call on MS Windows (closefds not functional not also
110 - fix pyxgraphics functionality because at least some versions of graphics
111 and friends seem to expect the file extension .def for the driver files
112 (thanks to Michael J Gruber)
114 - decorator to put text along a path; based on a patch by Michael J Gruber
115 (TODO: documentation)
117 - fix for MS Windows: open virtual font files in binary mode
120 - add bitmap style (TODO: documentation)
121 - added the metapost module:
122 - create smooth paths from a series of points
124 - new fundamental constructor based on arbitrary affine transformations
125 (TODO: documentation)
127 - add rgbgradient and cmykgradient to force color space (TODO: documentation)
132 - fix pipeGS (adding support for writing using pycompat.popen)
133 - insert method now returns canvas wrapping item if attrs are given
134 - insert method allows specification of position where item is inserted by before and after arguments
136 - arrow decorator: proper sign of constriction length for positioning
140 - increase designsize deviation to 4 (needs some further investigation)
142 - fixes due to the dvi and font restructuring
144 - fix build process for extension modules
145 - fix download url to allow for easy_install (hopefully)
147 - converted to sphinx
151 - font and dvi modules:
152 - major reorganization
153 - TeX mapping files are a property of the writer now
154 By that the pdfwriter now uses pdftex.map instead of psfonts.map
155 (It's also possible to pass a fontmap to a texrunners text method to use
156 different mappings within a single output file)
157 - support for font matrices (afm) for Type1 fonts
158 (using fonts without a metrics is still supported, but properly issues
160 - interface for basic TeX-less text output
161 - new PS and PDF writer options: strip_fonts, text_as_path, mesh_as_bitmap,
162 mesh_as_bitmap_resolution
163 - fix for commented out UniqueID
164 - fix rounding of font sizes
165 - fix scaling of VF position increments
166 - new filelocator module
168 - bar style on graphxyz (single datasets only)
170 - fix position of z4 axis
171 - set correct errorname for z axis (thanks to Axel Freyn)
172 - fix wrong y value usage instead of z value in pos methods
173 - fix unused color range settings in surface style (thanks to Michael J Gruber)
174 - fallbackrange for axes with vanishing range
175 - dokeyitem method (to be called with a plotitem) to alter the key order
176 - doplot() was renamed to doplotitem(), dodata() was renamed to doplot()
177 to have similar naming conventions like for the graph key
178 - axis module: do not divide by None for data.min and/or data.max being None (see patch #2833369)
180 - properly rotate axis titles when ticks are not othorgonal
181 to the axis (reported by Christian Delfosse)
182 - correct namedirection in bar axis painter (reported by rhunger, bug #2028032)
183 - graph.style.arrow: decorator is an parameter of the constructor now
184 (thanks to Axel Freyn)
185 - remove ticks with unset ticklevel and labellevel to prevent rating failures
186 (thanks to Brendon Higgins)
187 - canvas and document modules:
188 - auto-guess output filename from the script filename
189 - add ciecolor flag and input type to the pipeGS method of canvas
191 - new config options for psfontmaps and pdffontmaps
192 - new config option for formatting of Python warnings
193 - new config section for new filelocator module
195 - fix two bugs in the read pipe of the texrunner (thanks to
196 Laurence Tratt and Eric Faurot)
197 - fix "<" token handling in mapping file parser (thanks to Matthew West)
198 - fix start message parse error in MiKTeX (thanks to Wojciech Jaskowski)
199 - fix rigid aux file checking (thanks to Clayton E. Myers)
200 - use subprocess module if available
201 - proper error messages when TeX is stopped due to unrecoverable error
203 - implement style.fillrule
205 - added an explicit hatch pattern as an alternative for real postscript patterns
206 - arrow decorator: take into account constriction length when arrow pos < 1
208 - add support for transparent bitmaps (in postscript stencil masking only)
209 - path and normpath modules:
210 - remove incorrect zero length line in PDF output for each first moveto
211 path element (thanks to Michael J Gruber)
212 - raise correct normpath exception (thanks to Axel Freyn)
214 - an ugly way to import EPS in PDF using a bitmap (requires PIL)
220 - graphxyz for 3d graphs with parallel and central projection
221 - doplot method (to be called with a plotitem) to alter the plotitem order etc.
223 - new surface style for 3d graphs (colored surfaces are functional
224 (and useful!) for 2d graphs as well)
225 - new grid style for 3d graphs
227 - optional textdx/textdy columns to the text style added
228 - arrowpos parameter to the arrow style added
229 - bugfix: fromvalue axis range adjustment in histogram style
230 - bugfix: axis range adjustment in range style
232 - painter: don't insert axis title twice (thanks to Tim Gray for reporting this problem)
233 - parter: extend the logarithmic parter to calculate automatic partitions for huge ranges
234 (TODO: documentation of the new autoexponent parameter) (suggested by Dominic Ford)
235 - fix: range rating was not taken into account due in the 0.9 release
237 - list class was renamed to points; deprecation warning added
238 for instance creation, but inheritance from list failes
241 - internal helper module for efficient handling of triangular colored meshs
243 - renamed: palette->gradient, functionpalette->functiongradient, linearpalette->lineargradient
244 - new class palette representing a discrete ordered list of colors
245 - support transparency for filling/stroking in pdf separately
246 - transparency support for postscript as available by means of a proprietary
247 ghostscript extension (for ps2pdf)
248 - renamed method: tostring8bit -> to8bitstring (bug #2932888)
250 - add multichangeattr to perform a select on different changeable attributes
251 depending on the selects total number
254 - add missing glyph traversal in t1seacs updatepath
256 - support zero-length normsubpaths
258 - don't change order of attrs passed to canvas constructor in place
259 - added __truediv__ methods according to PEP 238
263 - most important changes (to be included in the release notes):
264 - mathtree removal (warning about integer division)
265 - barpos style does not build tuples for nestedbar axes automatically
266 - new deformers for path manipulation (for smoothing, shifting, ... paths)
268 - new framework for font handling
269 - own implementation of type1 font stripping (old pdftex code fragments removed)
270 - complete type1 font command representation and glyph path extraction from font programs
271 - t1code extension module (C version of de-/encoding routines used in Type 1 font files)
275 - mathtree removal: more flexibility due to true python expressions
276 - default style instantiation bug (reported by Gregory Novak)
278 - automatic subaxis tuple creation removed in barpos (create tuples
279 in expressions now; subnames argument removed since it became pointless;
280 adujstaxis became independend from selectstyle for all styles now)
281 - remove multiple painting of frompath in histogram and barpos styles
282 - fix missing attribute select when using a bar style once only (reported by Alan Isaac)
283 - fix histograms for negative y-coordinates (reported by Dominic Ford, bug #1492548)
284 - fix histogram to stroke lines to the baseline for steps=0 when two subsequent values are equal
285 - add key method for histogram style (reported by Hagemann, bug #1371554)
286 - implement a changebar style
287 - graph, axis and style module:
288 - support for mutual linking of axes between graphs
289 - new domethods dependency handling
290 - separate axis range calculation from dolayout
291 - axis.parter module:
292 - linear and logarthmic partitioners always need lists now
293 (as it was documented all the time; renamed tickdist/labeldist
294 to tickdists/labeldists; renamed tickpos/labelpos to
295 tickpreexps/labelpreexps)
297 - patch to tickpos and vtickpos (reported by Wojciech Smigaj, cf. patch #1286112)
298 - anchoredpathaxis added (suggested by Wojciech Smigaj)
299 - properly handle range rating on inversed axis (reported by Dominic Ford, cf. bug #1461513)
300 - invalidate axis partitions with a single label only by the distance rater
301 - fallback (with warning) to linear partitioner on a small logarithmics scale
303 - patch to allow for tickattrs=None (reported by Wojciech Smigaj, cf. patch #1286116)
305 - transparency support (PDF only)
306 - conversion between colorspaces
307 - nonlinear palettes added
308 - the former palette must now be initialized as linearpalette
309 - remove min and max arguments of palettes
311 - improve escapestring to handle all ascii characters
312 - correct vshift when text size is modified by a text.size instance
313 - recover from exceptions (reported by Alan Isaac)
314 - handle missing italic angle information in tfm for pdf output (reported by Brett Calcott)
315 - allow for .def and .fd files in texmessage.loaddef (new name for
316 texmessage.loadfd, which was restricted to .fd files)
318 - correct closepath (do not invalidate currentpoint but set it to the
319 beginning of the current subpath); structural rework of pathitems
320 - calculate real bboxes for Bezier curves
321 - fix intersection due to non-linear parametrization of bezier curves
322 - add rotate methods to path, normpath, normsubpath, and normsubpathitems
323 - add flushskippedline to normsubpath
324 - add arclentoparam to normsubpath and normsubpathitems
325 - path is no longer a canvasitem
326 - reduce number of parameters of outputPS/outputPDF methods (do not pass context and registry)
328 - contains normpath, normsubpath and normpathparam which have originally
329 been in the path module
330 - return "invalid" for certain path operations when the curve "speed" is
331 below a certain threshold
332 - normpath is no longer a canvasitem
333 - reduce number of parameters of outputPS/outputPDF methods (do not pass context and registry)
335 - rewritten smoothed to make use of the subnormpath facilities
336 - rewritten parallel for arbitrary paths
338 - add basic text decorator
339 - allow arrows at arbitrary positions along the path
341 - boxdists parameter need to be a list/tuple of two items now
342 - changed the orientation of the angle parameters
344 - renamed _apply to apply_pt
345 - introduce _epsilon for checking the singularity of a trafo
347 - use rectclip instead of clip to remove the clipping path from the
348 PostScript stack, which otherwise might create strange effects for
349 certain PostScript files (reported by Gert Ingold)
351 - silently ignore TrueType fonts in font mapping files (reported by Gabriel Vasseur)
353 - accept [ and ] as separators in encoding files (reported by Mojca Miklavec, cf. bug #1429524)
355 - remove registerPS/registerPDF in favour of registering resourcing during the outputPS/outputPDF run
356 - move bbox handling to registry
357 - rename outputPS/outputPDF -> processPS/processPDF
358 - remove set method of canvas
359 - add a pipeGS method to directly pass the PyX output to ghostscript
360 - allow file instances as parameter of the writeXXXfile methods (feature request #1419658 by Jason Pratt)
362 - allow file instances as parameter of the writeXXXfile methods (feature request #1419658 by Jason Pratt)
364 - make rellength the default for dash styles
366 - switched to subversion on 2006/03/09
370 - fix bug in postscript deco code for stroking only attributes
372 - fix multicurveto._normalized
373 - fix path.paramtoarclen and path.paramtoarclen_pt
374 - remove unused method-local function
375 - fix linestyle rellength in PostScript
376 - correction to the rounding problems in circles (reported by Uwe Fabricius)
380 - issue a warning when not using a stroke color for patterns
382 - postpone PDFfontdescriptor information, since it raises an error on certain
383 fonts even when PostScript output was requested (reported by Gert Ingold)
384 - remove spurious spaces when checking for empty texmessages
386 - caching in fallback to lower system call bottleneck
388 - add missing writePSfile wrapper
389 - add *args to writeEPSfile and writePDFfile wrappers
391 - writebbox option to write bbox information (disabled by default)
392 even when a paper format is specified (PS and PDF writers only)
393 - use arclen in spring example
395 - use pdf graphic files for pdf version of the manual
396 - use PyX to create tipa fallbacks for FAQ
397 - correct description regarding the manual in the README file
401 - changed requirements to python 2.1 or newer:
402 - nested scopes are needed without fallback solution by the path module
403 (at other places fallback solutions for missing nested scopes are missing as well)
404 - use warning module for warnings
406 - path parameters and argument handling
407 - the arct to arc/arcn conversion (needed for bbox calculation and for conversion into
408 normpath) has been fixed
409 - document module: new
410 - container classes for document and pages
411 - document.paperformat class (strings are deprecated)
413 - writeEPSfile wraps a canvas in a single page document and performs the output
417 - completely rewritten: support for fonts and patterns has been added
418 - pswriter module: new
419 - separate PS output from canvas
420 - new signature of outputPS methods: writer and context are passed as additional
423 - allow selection on zero range palette (reported by Francisco Borges, cf. bug #1116257)
424 - prolog module: removed due to code reorganisation
426 - modifications on __init__.py in graph and axis subdirectories to
427 make "from pyx.graph import *" working as expected
429 - addontop added to stackedbarpos
430 - column -> columnname renaming where appropriate
431 - histogram style added
433 - function needs explicit variable definition (implicit variable definition is deprecated)
434 - column names are inherited by data.data() except when copy=0;
435 unused columns are silently ignored now
436 - dynamic function data on a logarithmic axis uses isinstance check now
437 (although it removes the only (mis)use of axis.inverse, it is a
438 temporary solution only)
440 - extend graph keys to allow for several columns
441 - axis data handling refactoring:
442 - introcuded an axis positioner (module graph.axis.positioner)
443 - introduced anchoredaxis to make axis data and positioning local to a graph
444 - linkedaxis is a special version of anchoredaxis and is generic
445 (it uses the new linkpainter provided by an axis)
446 - unification of split and bar axes;
447 removed some black magic in baraxis in favor of a nestedbar axis
448 - x linked to x2 etc. is now possible
449 - axis.inverse was removed (the only place it was (mis)used was by a function)
451 - allow to transform axis after layout
452 - [xy]axisat arguments in the constructor to easily move [xy]-axes
453 to a position defined the orthogonal axis
454 - remove axispos (use the axis dictionary now, since it now contains
455 anchored axis instances and those have shortcuts for the axis positioner
458 - tfm->dvi conversion rounding bugfix
459 - fix parsing of empty strings ("") in fontmap files (reported by John Owens, bug #1218983)
461 - support for halign of boxes and content of boxes (see halign example)
462 - take units xscale into account in parbox
463 - messageparser for replaced fontsizes: Warning -> implemented by texmessage.fontwarning
464 - messageparser for size differences at the end: Warning not Exception -> implemented by texmessage.fontwarning
465 - messageparser for overfull/underfull vbox/hbox: Warning not Exception -> implemented by texmessage.boxwarning
466 - dvicopy flag removed
467 - allow argument of set to be None
468 - rename nomathmode and nophantom to clearmathmode and clearphantom
469 - texmessagepattern for easy creation of simple TeX message parsers
470 - allow long file names in file checking TeX message parsers
471 - no newline removal to not disturbe TeX messages when reporting errors
472 - reworked documentation to use the python documentation standards
474 - linewidth is no longer a unit.length subclass but expects a such as first argument
476 - correct EOL handling while reading DSC's (reported by Markus Meyer)
477 - pattern module: new
478 - moved canvas.pattern to its own module together with the new PDFpattern class
479 - add some default patterns: hatched and crosshatched
481 - improve the smoothing deformer
482 - add a parallel deformer
484 - the very old tex module finally got removed completely
486 - a simple converter from dvi to EPS/PS/PDF files (dviconvert.py) has been added
487 - a simple imagine to EPS/PS/PDF converter (imgconvert.py) has been added
488 - a simple dvitype.py has been added
489 - update address of FSF all over the place
494 - EPS header fixed (reported by Russell Lang, cf. bug #1065099)
496 - use CURDIR instead of PWD (reported by David M. Cooke, bug #1070285)
498 - support windows line endings (patch by Hans-Andreas Engel, cf. bug #1071160)
500 - line attributes handling fixed (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
501 - fix typos in predefined symbols (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
502 - cut column name list at the max. number of columns (reported by Arnd Baecker)
504 - add INDEX and README files to distribution
505 - new errorbar and julia example
507 - pdf snippets for tipa based phonetic transliterations
512 - new module for inclusion of bitmap images
514 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
515 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
517 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
518 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
519 - enlarge was misspelled as enlarged
520 - renamed _bbox -> bbox_pt
521 - new bbox method center, which returns the coordinates of the center
523 - enlarge and enlarged do no longer interprete unqualified lengths as
526 - unit.cm, unit.t_cm, etc. are no longer sub classes but instances
528 - never convert implicitly into visual/width, etc. lengths (this is more
529 about usage of the unit module in various other modules) (TODO: update
531 - support for string initialization removed
532 - support for initialisation with other length removed
533 - lengths can now be divided by other lengths (as suggested by Michael Gruber
534 and Magnus Lie Hetland)
536 - postpone reading of fontmap files until TeX/LaTeX is started
537 - sign of font number in dvifile (reported by Michael Gruber)
540 - added new classes page and document for multipage PostScript output
541 - apply deformers (instead of trafos) in draw method
543 - decrease interval for dotted and dash-dotted lines for better visual
545 - setup.py and distribution:
546 - create siteconfig on install to store positions of the shared data
549 - graph style + data reorganization
550 - modularization of the graph styles by separating data handling and drawing tasks
551 - several graph styles can now be combined together
552 - graph data can internally now combine different data sources
553 (by that, some nasty side effects could have been removed)
554 - enum -> num renaming
555 - allow for horizontally and vertically centered graph key alignment and a key background
556 - fix bug that graph was not finished automatically when a bbox was specified
557 manually (reported by David Barton)
559 - pathel -> pathitem, etc. renaming
560 - methods accepting a parameter value / arc length now also allow the user to
561 pass a tuple (subpath, param) / (subpath, arclen)
562 - normpath constructor no longer accepts a path or normpath as argument but only a list
563 of normsubpaths. Use the new normpath method of the path instead to construct a normpath
565 - normsubpath can now deal with short (i.e. shorter than epsilon) segments correctly
566 - the intersect and split methods of normpath and normsubpath have been completely rewritten and
567 now take the accuracy epsilon correctly into account. Note that for a closed subpath the
568 split function now returns the segment containing the closing point as first element
569 in the result list (before, it was returned as last element).
570 - normsubpathitems and normsubpath now implement much more methods also provided by
571 path and normpath instances
572 - normpath.append no longer accepts pathitems but only normsubpaths
573 - deformer module: new
574 - moved cycloid and smoothed from deco into deformer
576 - handle "BoundingBox: (atend)" (cf. bug #945621 reported by Jim Boyle)
577 - kpsearch option to search for file using the kpathsea library (contributed by Michael Gruber)
579 - PSCmd and PSOp are now joined in a new class canvasitem
581 - decorated path no longer allows modification of its path
582 - new method excluderange which allows to remove certain parameter ranges from the stroked path
583 - additional canvas provided by decorated path is now called ornaments
584 - constriction=None now indicates an arrowhead without constriction
586 - trafos are now deformers
588 - a bunch of bargraph examples have been added
593 - fix errorbar range adjustment
594 - fix empty tick lists bug (reported by Marko Vendelin, cf. bug #977323)
595 - graph/style module:
596 - symbolline drawing order in graph key (cf. bug #990687)
598 - access to builtin list (reported by Marcus Mendenhall, cf. bug #1042458)
603 - fix drawing with background
604 - fix insertion of a zero length path when the whole line is outside
605 the valid axis range (reported by Marko Vendelin)
607 - include source for faq and manual
608 - distribute the pdf instead of postscript (manual, faq, examples)
613 - fixed title=None + graph key issue reported by Gabriel Vasseur
614 - graph.axis.painter.plain -> graph.axis.painter.regular
615 (as it was in parts of the documentation already)
616 - changeable-gridattrs-become-None-bug fixed
617 - graph style cutting outside lines (double-)fixed
621 - fixes missing install of the graph and axis directories introduced in 0.6
622 - some minor updates to the faq
627 - reorganisation of the graph structure finished (there might be some
628 small pending issues, but the basic restructuring is done with this release):
629 - graph splitted into several modules in pyx/graph and pyx/graph/axis
630 - painters are using the new attribute scheme including changeable
632 - graph styles rewrite
634 - axis zeropath feature has been removed
635 - mergelabels removed; linpart doesn't have a label argument anymore
636 - names and texts removed from baraxis
637 - iteration on graph style, when it is used several times in the same graph
638 - symbols + lines -> symbollines; symbols do not allow setting lineattrs,
639 and lines not symbolattrs
640 - manual line clipping (do not include unneeded line segments when the
641 axis range is set manually etc.)
642 - automatic file key titles
643 - graph.data now also includes the old data module
644 - data.list adds (by default) a line number like data.file
645 (thus regular columns are counted from 1)
647 - added new pathels multilineto_pt and multicurveto which allows to specify
648 a list of points and can thus be much more efficient
649 - internal methods return coordinates in pts
650 - arclentoparam returns only parameters not total length
651 - added path.arclength_pt, path.at_pt, path.begin_pt, path.end_pt (and
652 correspondingly for normpath)
653 - complete refactoring of the normpath class: normpaths now consist of
654 normsubpaths which themselves consist of normlines and normcurves This is
655 much more convenient for any routines working with normpaths.
656 - reversing of closed sub paths does not change the first point of the sub
658 - renamed: arclength -> arclen
659 - renamed: lentopar -> arclentoparam
660 - renamed: glue -> joined
661 - normpath now supports join, the in-place version of joined
662 - path and normpath method raise exception instead of returning None
663 when parameter is out of range
664 - the accuracy epsilon can now only be specified in normpath and normsubpath
665 constructor and no longer in arguments of path and normpath methods
666 - negative parameters are no longer supported in path and normpath methods
667 - path and normpath methods which accept parameter value param now
668 alternatively accept an arc length
672 - arrow heads are no longer stroked (as suggested by Magnus Lie Hetland)
674 - writeEPSfile deprecates writetofile
675 - internally, write methods are renamed in outputPS
676 - canvas constructor no longer accepts variable argument list but
677 expects a list of attrs as first argument (defaulting to []) and
678 a texrunner as second argument (defaulting to text.defaulttexrunner)
679 - set, draw, stroke and fill no longer return self, i.e., the canvas, but None
681 - added inplace add (__iadd__), enlarge and transform methods
682 - callers use inplace add where possible now (yielding a considerable
684 - "undefined" corners of bounding boxes are no longer supported which makes
685 the bounding box operations much more efficient.
687 - renamed _xxx -> xxx_pt
689 - removed showbbox argument of epsfile class
691 - default handling of texmessages as in the new attribute scheme
692 - multiple insert bug fixed
693 - made left, right, width, height, depth information available (x length
694 not taking into account box transformations)
695 - ignore tex message "Please type a command or say `\\end'"
696 - added textboxes that are sequentially filled (experimental)
698 - mandel.py (contributed by Stephen Phillips)
700 - length comparision (David Beach)
704 - switched to the new parser using pythons parser module
706 - removed, it all lives in the graph.data module now, while before it
707 was splitted into two separate modules
709 - not imported by default anymore
710 - obsolete warning when importing this module
714 - include missing c-files for optional extension modules
716 - fix unpaired BeginProcSet/EndProcSet in font enconding
719 - setup.py and distribution:
720 - allow customization of the extension modules built (via setup.cfg)
721 - disable building pykpathsea module by default
722 - more detailed description of install process in INSTALL
723 - provide more information and pointers to other files in README
724 - include example data files in distribution (suggested by Andrea Riciputi)
725 - force dvips to write ps files instead of printing them (suggested by Otto Tronarp)
726 - includ pyxfaq.pdf in distribution
728 - improved is-readable test for lfs files and pyx.def file
729 - explicitly quit (La)TeX in cleantmp (helps when quitting with <Ctrl>C)
730 - showwaitfortex implemented following a suggestion by Fernando Perez
731 (waitfortex is increased to 60 seconds now)
732 - support of TeX extension --ipc for reading dvi results while TeX keeps running
733 - configurable font mapping files (via pyxrc or parameter of the texrunner constructor)
734 - markers to get access to positions within TeX expressions
735 - fix: allow for e-tex in texmessage.start (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
736 - fix: print warning at syntax errors in font mapping file and continue (cf. bug #795271)
737 - remove limitation on number of fonts in dvi file
738 - added native virtual font support
739 - dvicopy support not needed anymore (it is still available, but obsolete and
740 removed from the documentation)
741 - do not include too many glyphs in the eps file
742 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
743 - dvifile module (NEW):
744 - separated from the text module
745 - dvifile class returns standard pyx canvas instances on readpage
747 - removed manualpart and partitioners mix keyword
748 - results of the splitting at "=" in graph.function were not stripped
749 - skip title=None in key (cf. bug #821284), properly align a single key entry
750 - another (the last?!) axis redesign: axispos -> class of its own
751 - some axispos name have changed slightly (zeroline -> zeropath etc.)
752 - tick/data-vmin/vmax removed
755 - minor enhancements in exponentionaltexter
756 - axes alongs paths including a set of examples
757 - mixing a partitioner and manual ticks by two distinct keyword arguments now
758 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
759 - part -> parter renaming
761 - stroke, fill, draw, set and insert do no longer accept variable length argument lists but
762 an attribute list as last argument
763 - stroke and fill now support trafos (TODO: documentation)
764 - uppercase version of a4, a3, ... paperformats
766 - new module for loading PyX configuration information
768 - automatically import main modules into pyx namespace as suggested by Fernando
771 - check for sorting of parameter list passed to path.split method
772 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
774 - contains decoratedpath and decorators from canvas module
775 - all predefined decorators are instances now (deco.stroked is thus ok) and
776 attributes have to be passed explicitely, e.g., deco.earrow.small(attrs=color.rgb.red)
777 and deco.stroked([color.rgb.blue])
778 - style module (NEW):
779 - contains all line- and fillstyles which formerly had been defined in the canvas module
780 - dash now supports relative dash lengths (as suggested by Otto Tronarp)
782 - fixed incorrect handling of - (for instance -x**2 was not negative)
784 - contents have been moved to the (obsolete) tex module, which was the only user anyhow, and
785 the module itself was removed
787 - new fallback solution in pure python
788 - bugfix: pyxadapt.h needs to open files binary under Windows (reported by Gary Pajer)
790 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
792 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
796 - "in" to "inch" in paperformats
798 - fix pyx.def hack occuring whenever \ProcessOptions* was used by a package
800 - implement different file formats for Python version of module
802 - python fallback solution should behave the same way as c extension module (closes SF bug #799182 reported
803 by Marcus Mendenhall)
805 - added "connector" to __all__
809 - separate texter out of the axispainter
810 - axis/partitioner/texter/painter/axispos redesign & interfaces
811 - tick.text is renamed to tick.label
812 - ticks and labels are renamed to tickpos/tickdist and labelpos/labeldist in partitioning
813 - ticks can be used in the part to mix a partitioner with some manual ticks
814 -> manualpart and the mix technique is not needed anymore
815 (both things are still available and working, but they will be removed in the future)
816 - _ensurefrac is implemented inside the frac constructor now; initialization is possible by:
817 - a (enum, denom) tuple now (previously there were two arguments)
818 - a string (as before via _ensurefrac)
819 - exponential strings are allowed as well (e.g. "1e10" etc.)
820 - a float (precision is determined by floatprecision -- the number of decimal places)
825 - reset() method for the texrunner
826 - automatic restart of a TeX instance with the same preamble (preamble changes are not possible)
827 - texmessage.loadfd for accepting font description loading
828 - don't bail out on width_index == 0, but mark character invalid instead
830 - support for specials; pyxgraphics flag
831 - support psfonts.map: font names, font encodings
832 - bugfix \def\ProcessPyXBox -> \long\def\ProcessPyXBox
833 - improved lfs handling
835 - full documentation via doc strings
837 - some preliminary version
839 - multiple radii (up to two per point) and softnesses
840 - ensurecenter added --- do we always force the creation of a center?
842 - lentopar methods added including some tests
844 - new parameter bbox allows to override the bounding box of the eps file
848 - derive TFMError and DVIError correctly from exceptions.Exception
849 - close files and pipes, if they are no longer used (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
850 - remove DeprecationWarning in Python 2.3 (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
852 - correct rounding algorithm (Michael Schindler)
854 - refer to the graphs texrunner instead of the defaulttexrunner (cf. #728209)
855 - rounding towards zero bugfix in autolinpart
856 - log axis range rating bugfix
858 - addarg bugs (#738724)
860 - fix mixing up of height and width in scale calculation
861 - and various other fixer here and there
865 - fix bug in dvi rule code where width was height
866 - fix preamble attribute checking bug
867 - fix texmessage.load pattern search instead of pattern match bug
868 - renamed vbox to parbox (was done in 0.3 partially only)
870 - allow for tuples in arguments of the data class
871 - convenience: exchanged order of named parameters in data.data
873 - convenience: allow for part=None in _axis (base of linaxis and logaxis)
875 - added a latex example (requested)
876 - added a attributechange example (requested)
877 - added back the integral example (requested; prior PyX 0.3 it was part of the user manual)
878 - small change in vector example (allow for the access to the texrunner)
879 - examples included in source distribution
881 - correct arrow template calculation for very short paths
885 - new easy to use example generation (will hopefully lead to nice examples)
887 - new module for handling of convex polygons (taken out of the graph module)
889 - new module containing a collection of helper functions (taken out of the graph module)
890 - moved the attrlist into helper -- as plain functions; attrlist becomes obsolete
892 - new module: a new and preferable integration of TeX/LaTeX
894 - strip glyphs from pfa/pfb-fonts
895 - there is a C implementation taken from pdftex
896 - fallback solution via an external program (pfb2pfa)
898 - (partial) C binding to libkpathsea
899 - fallback solution via an external program (kpsewhich)
901 - removed some code duplication (various axis painters)
902 - use text module instead of the obsolete tex module
903 - allow for tailing zeros of automatic generated labels
904 - allow for missing data in bar graphs -> skipmissing parameter
905 - remove the support for variables given as keyword arguments in data constructor
906 - use context instead of extern for extern variables and functions
907 - graph keys; titles in data/function/etc.
909 - new classes for visual and width lengths, aliases for user length (u_pt = pt)
910 - all length classes have now by default a quantifier 1 (instead of 0), such that,
911 for instance, 5*unit.t_cm() == unit.t_cm(5)
912 - default_unit now has to be set via unit.set. For instance: unit.set(defaultunit="m").
913 - convert_to is now an internal function, which moreover does not longer accept tuples or lists
915 - new class _bbox (the former bbox) which accepts points in the constructor. This is used
916 for internal purposes.
917 - the bbox constructor now accepts user lengths in the constructor.
918 - new methods height, width, top, bottom, left, right
919 - ll & ur ???, what about ul and lr -> ugly!
920 - enlarge (was enhance) now allows selective enlargement to the left, bottom, right and top
921 - output HiResBoundingBox
922 - never reduce bbox upon output
924 - new constructor signature, more in line with rest of PyX:
925 epsfile(x, y, filename, **additional_args)
927 - removed additional column support in addcolumn; removed _addcolumn
928 - line reduction for datafile like the every parameter in gnuplot
930 - new way of PS prolog generation that writes only necessary parts
931 - added support for patterns
932 - canvas.insert() now supports arguments
933 - bbox of canvas can be specified in writetofile command explicitely
934 - writetofile does not return self anymore
935 - arrow template now uses intersection with circle to get size right
936 (as per a suggestion by Michael Schindler)
939 - changed the handling of extern functions and all variables
941 - gradient renamed to palette
943 - problem with sizefile on windows (tex module)
944 - allow for strings in graphxy's width and height; allow for width only (graph module)
945 - disable rating for labelattrs equals None (graph module)
946 - defaultstyle selection, when a list of data is provided to the plot function (graph module)
947 - traverse when adding functions as arguments of operators (mathtree module)
948 - allow for extern functions in addcolumn (data module)
949 - just one common place for the version number
950 - fix incorrect exception name MathError (path module)
951 - prevent double return of intersections for closed sub paths
956 - allow division of length by numbers
958 - new transformation: slant
959 - renamed all trafo methods to use the participle (i.e translate->translated)
960 - the name of all trafo subclasses are verbs (i.e. translation->translate)
962 - mark class renamed to symbol
963 - (text-)box distance measurement
964 - moved axis partitioning to axis and axis painter
965 - automatic axis partitioning (now officially: general cleanup, distance measurement, documentation)
967 - baraxis, baraxispainter, and bar style
969 - previously named datafile module
970 - class "_datafile" renamed to class "data"
971 - class sectionfile added
974 - extern variables and functions (support in graph.function, graph.paramfunction and data.data)
977 - deferred to Version 0.3
978 - running TeX "on the fly" is basically implemented
980 - transformation bug (#624068, trafo module)
981 - canvas transformations (canvas module???)
982 - textbox alignment (graph module)
983 - return linewidth upon calculation with linewidths (unit module)
984 - allow column number variables with several digits
986 - british and american spellings (color module, graph module)
987 - small logo modifications