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
41 - contructor should only take a texrunner keyword argument
43 - stroking of patterns does not work in PDF
44 - style and color module:
45 - support modification of existing styles via __call__
47 - ReusableStreamDecode?
48 - proper ASCII85Decode/HexDecode switch
49 - Support for transparent bitmaps?
51 - rewrite height, etc. using properties
53 - move helper path routines to some more generic place for paths?
54 - pdffile module needed (similar to epsfile)
56 - clearly distingish between readers and writers. dvifile, epsfile, etc. might
57 be renamed to dvireader, epsreader ...
58 - support gsave and grestore in some way to make context handling easier?
60 - support colorspace argument (like c.writeEPSfile("bla", colorspace="cmyk"))
61 - move pyx.def, lfs-files etc. into a new share directory
62 - write fakepattern.py which substitutes some of the pattern functionality using
64 - libkpathsea bindung:
65 - create a ctypes based binding to replace the extension module implementation in the long
69 - describe + vs << vs join
70 - more details in path constructor: allowed pathels, first pathel...
75 Changeable attributes should be explained at a central place.
77 - linealign and circlealign
78 - need to be redone anyway
80 styles: document what data name the styles accept (require). Try also to be more
81 userfriendly and not to describe immediately the internals of the implementation:
82 (see e.g. class.style.symbol)
83 - document interface to access tick positions
86 - add an epsfile example (suggested by Stathis Sideris)
87 - add a small example line on y="f($1)" in one of the plot examples
91 - describe creation and modification (inplace and ``modify by new'') of
95 - type 1 font modules:
96 - allow font slanting for T1builtinfont instances
97 - improve stripped font compatibility
98 - remove UniqueID lookup from embedded fonts in PostScript output (fixes
99 missing glyph issue with dvips and certain fonts)
100 - allow Type1 font usage without TeX and without AFM font metric
101 - add support for pfm font matrices
103 - fix raise condition while generating bitmap for PDF inclusion
104 - fix file opening for bbox reading when using filelocator (reported by
106 - filelocator module:
107 - fix text mode line ending issue for MS Windows
109 - fix subprocess call on MS Windows (closefds not functional not also
111 - fix pyxgraphics functionality because at least some versions of graphics
112 and friends seem to expect the file extension .def for the driver files
113 (thanks to Michael J Gruber)
115 - decorator to put text along a path; based on a patch by Michael J Gruber
116 (TODO: documentation)
118 - fix for MS Windows: open virtual font files in binary mode
121 - add bitmap style (TODO: documentation)
122 - added the metapost module:
123 - create smooth paths from a series of points
125 - new fundamental constructor based on arbitrary affine transformations
126 (TODO: documentation)
128 - add rgbgradient and cmykgradient to force color space (TODO: documentation)
133 - fix pipeGS (adding support for writing using pycompat.popen)
134 - insert method now returns canvas wrapping item if attrs are given
135 - insert method allows specification of position where item is inserted by before and after arguments
137 - arrow decorator: proper sign of constriction length for positioning
141 - increase designsize deviation to 4 (needs some further investigation)
143 - fixes due to the dvi and font restructuring
145 - fix build process for extension modules
146 - fix download url to allow for easy_install (hopefully)
148 - converted to sphinx
152 - font and dvi modules:
153 - major reorganization
154 - TeX mapping files are a property of the writer now
155 By that the pdfwriter now uses pdftex.map instead of psfonts.map
156 (It's also possible to pass a fontmap to a texrunners text method to use
157 different mappings within a single output file)
158 - support for font matrices (afm) for Type1 fonts
159 (using fonts without a metrics is still supported, but properly issues
161 - interface for basic TeX-less text output
162 - new PS and PDF writer options: strip_fonts, text_as_path, mesh_as_bitmap,
163 mesh_as_bitmap_resolution
164 - fix for commented out UniqueID
165 - fix rounding of font sizes
166 - fix scaling of VF position increments
167 - new filelocator module
169 - bar style on graphxyz (single datasets only)
171 - fix position of z4 axis
172 - set correct errorname for z axis (thanks to Axel Freyn)
173 - fix wrong y value usage instead of z value in pos methods
174 - fix unused color range settings in surface style (thanks to Michael J Gruber)
175 - fallbackrange for axes with vanishing range
176 - dokeyitem method (to be called with a plotitem) to alter the key order
177 - doplot() was renamed to doplotitem(), dodata() was renamed to doplot()
178 to have similar naming conventions like for the graph key
179 - axis module: do not divide by None for data.min and/or data.max being None (see patch #2833369)
181 - properly rotate axis titles when ticks are not othorgonal
182 to the axis (reported by Christian Delfosse)
183 - correct namedirection in bar axis painter (reported by rhunger, bug #2028032)
184 - graph.style.arrow: decorator is an parameter of the constructor now
185 (thanks to Axel Freyn)
186 - remove ticks with unset ticklevel and labellevel to prevent rating failures
187 (thanks to Brendon Higgins)
188 - canvas and document modules:
189 - auto-guess output filename from the script filename
190 - add ciecolor flag and input type to the pipeGS method of canvas
192 - new config options for psfontmaps and pdffontmaps
193 - new config option for formatting of Python warnings
194 - new config section for new filelocator module
196 - fix two bugs in the read pipe of the texrunner (thanks to
197 Laurence Tratt and Eric Faurot)
198 - fix "<" token handling in mapping file parser (thanks to Matthew West)
199 - fix start message parse error in MiKTeX (thanks to Wojciech Jaskowski)
200 - fix rigid aux file checking (thanks to Clayton E. Myers)
201 - use subprocess module if available
202 - proper error messages when TeX is stopped due to unrecoverable error
204 - implement style.fillrule
206 - added an explicit hatch pattern as an alternative for real postscript patterns
207 - arrow decorator: take into account constriction length when arrow pos < 1
209 - add support for transparent bitmaps (in postscript stencil masking only)
210 - path and normpath modules:
211 - remove incorrect zero length line in PDF output for each first moveto
212 path element (thanks to Michael J Gruber)
213 - raise correct normpath exception (thanks to Axel Freyn)
215 - an ugly way to import EPS in PDF using a bitmap (requires PIL)
221 - graphxyz for 3d graphs with parallel and central projection
222 - doplot method (to be called with a plotitem) to alter the plotitem order etc.
224 - new surface style for 3d graphs (colored surfaces are functional
225 (and useful!) for 2d graphs as well)
226 - new grid style for 3d graphs
228 - optional textdx/textdy columns to the text style added
229 - arrowpos parameter to the arrow style added
230 - bugfix: fromvalue axis range adjustment in histogram style
231 - bugfix: axis range adjustment in range style
233 - painter: don't insert axis title twice (thanks to Tim Gray for reporting this problem)
234 - parter: extend the logarithmic parter to calculate automatic partitions for huge ranges
235 (TODO: documentation of the new autoexponent parameter) (suggested by Dominic Ford)
236 - fix: range rating was not taken into account due in the 0.9 release
238 - list class was renamed to points; deprecation warning added
239 for instance creation, but inheritance from list failes
242 - internal helper module for efficient handling of triangular colored meshs
244 - renamed: palette->gradient, functionpalette->functiongradient, linearpalette->lineargradient
245 - new class palette representing a discrete ordered list of colors
246 - support transparency for filling/stroking in pdf separately
247 - transparency support for postscript as available by means of a proprietary
248 ghostscript extension (for ps2pdf)
249 - renamed method: tostring8bit -> to8bitstring (bug #2932888)
251 - add multichangeattr to perform a select on different changeable attributes
252 depending on the selects total number
255 - add missing glyph traversal in t1seacs updatepath
257 - support zero-length normsubpaths
259 - don't change order of attrs passed to canvas constructor in place
260 - added __truediv__ methods according to PEP 238
264 - most important changes (to be included in the release notes):
265 - mathtree removal (warning about integer division)
266 - barpos style does not build tuples for nestedbar axes automatically
267 - new deformers for path manipulation (for smoothing, shifting, ... paths)
269 - new framework for font handling
270 - own implementation of type1 font stripping (old pdftex code fragments removed)
271 - complete type1 font command representation and glyph path extraction from font programs
272 - t1code extension module (C version of de-/encoding routines used in Type 1 font files)
276 - mathtree removal: more flexibility due to true python expressions
277 - default style instantiation bug (reported by Gregory Novak)
279 - automatic subaxis tuple creation removed in barpos (create tuples
280 in expressions now; subnames argument removed since it became pointless;
281 adujstaxis became independend from selectstyle for all styles now)
282 - remove multiple painting of frompath in histogram and barpos styles
283 - fix missing attribute select when using a bar style once only (reported by Alan Isaac)
284 - fix histograms for negative y-coordinates (reported by Dominic Ford, bug #1492548)
285 - fix histogram to stroke lines to the baseline for steps=0 when two subsequent values are equal
286 - add key method for histogram style (reported by Hagemann, bug #1371554)
287 - implement a changebar style
288 - graph, axis and style module:
289 - support for mutual linking of axes between graphs
290 - new domethods dependency handling
291 - separate axis range calculation from dolayout
292 - axis.parter module:
293 - linear and logarthmic partitioners always need lists now
294 (as it was documented all the time; renamed tickdist/labeldist
295 to tickdists/labeldists; renamed tickpos/labelpos to
296 tickpreexps/labelpreexps)
298 - patch to tickpos and vtickpos (reported by Wojciech Smigaj, cf. patch #1286112)
299 - anchoredpathaxis added (suggested by Wojciech Smigaj)
300 - properly handle range rating on inversed axis (reported by Dominic Ford, cf. bug #1461513)
301 - invalidate axis partitions with a single label only by the distance rater
302 - fallback (with warning) to linear partitioner on a small logarithmics scale
304 - patch to allow for tickattrs=None (reported by Wojciech Smigaj, cf. patch #1286116)
306 - transparency support (PDF only)
307 - conversion between colorspaces
308 - nonlinear palettes added
309 - the former palette must now be initialized as linearpalette
310 - remove min and max arguments of palettes
312 - improve escapestring to handle all ascii characters
313 - correct vshift when text size is modified by a text.size instance
314 - recover from exceptions (reported by Alan Isaac)
315 - handle missing italic angle information in tfm for pdf output (reported by Brett Calcott)
316 - allow for .def and .fd files in texmessage.loaddef (new name for
317 texmessage.loadfd, which was restricted to .fd files)
319 - correct closepath (do not invalidate currentpoint but set it to the
320 beginning of the current subpath); structural rework of pathitems
321 - calculate real bboxes for Bezier curves
322 - fix intersection due to non-linear parametrization of bezier curves
323 - add rotate methods to path, normpath, normsubpath, and normsubpathitems
324 - add flushskippedline to normsubpath
325 - add arclentoparam to normsubpath and normsubpathitems
326 - path is no longer a canvasitem
327 - reduce number of parameters of outputPS/outputPDF methods (do not pass context and registry)
329 - contains normpath, normsubpath and normpathparam which have originally
330 been in the path module
331 - return "invalid" for certain path operations when the curve "speed" is
332 below a certain threshold
333 - normpath is no longer a canvasitem
334 - reduce number of parameters of outputPS/outputPDF methods (do not pass context and registry)
336 - rewritten smoothed to make use of the subnormpath facilities
337 - rewritten parallel for arbitrary paths
339 - add basic text decorator
340 - allow arrows at arbitrary positions along the path
342 - boxdists parameter need to be a list/tuple of two items now
343 - changed the orientation of the angle parameters
345 - renamed _apply to apply_pt
346 - introduce _epsilon for checking the singularity of a trafo
348 - use rectclip instead of clip to remove the clipping path from the
349 PostScript stack, which otherwise might create strange effects for
350 certain PostScript files (reported by Gert Ingold)
352 - silently ignore TrueType fonts in font mapping files (reported by Gabriel Vasseur)
354 - accept [ and ] as separators in encoding files (reported by Mojca Miklavec, cf. bug #1429524)
356 - remove registerPS/registerPDF in favour of registering resourcing during the outputPS/outputPDF run
357 - move bbox handling to registry
358 - rename outputPS/outputPDF -> processPS/processPDF
359 - remove set method of canvas
360 - add a pipeGS method to directly pass the PyX output to ghostscript
361 - allow file instances as parameter of the writeXXXfile methods (feature request #1419658 by Jason Pratt)
363 - allow file instances as parameter of the writeXXXfile methods (feature request #1419658 by Jason Pratt)
365 - make rellength the default for dash styles
367 - switched to subversion on 2006/03/09
371 - fix bug in postscript deco code for stroking only attributes
373 - fix multicurveto._normalized
374 - fix path.paramtoarclen and path.paramtoarclen_pt
375 - remove unused method-local function
376 - fix linestyle rellength in PostScript
377 - correction to the rounding problems in circles (reported by Uwe Fabricius)
381 - issue a warning when not using a stroke color for patterns
383 - postpone PDFfontdescriptor information, since it raises an error on certain
384 fonts even when PostScript output was requested (reported by Gert Ingold)
385 - remove spurious spaces when checking for empty texmessages
387 - caching in fallback to lower system call bottleneck
389 - add missing writePSfile wrapper
390 - add *args to writeEPSfile and writePDFfile wrappers
392 - writebbox option to write bbox information (disabled by default)
393 even when a paper format is specified (PS and PDF writers only)
394 - use arclen in spring example
396 - use pdf graphic files for pdf version of the manual
397 - use PyX to create tipa fallbacks for FAQ
398 - correct description regarding the manual in the README file
402 - changed requirements to python 2.1 or newer:
403 - nested scopes are needed without fallback solution by the path module
404 (at other places fallback solutions for missing nested scopes are missing as well)
405 - use warning module for warnings
407 - path parameters and argument handling
408 - the arct to arc/arcn conversion (needed for bbox calculation and for conversion into
409 normpath) has been fixed
410 - document module: new
411 - container classes for document and pages
412 - document.paperformat class (strings are deprecated)
414 - writeEPSfile wraps a canvas in a single page document and performs the output
418 - completely rewritten: support for fonts and patterns has been added
419 - pswriter module: new
420 - separate PS output from canvas
421 - new signature of outputPS methods: writer and context are passed as additional
424 - allow selection on zero range palette (reported by Francisco Borges, cf. bug #1116257)
425 - prolog module: removed due to code reorganisation
427 - modifications on __init__.py in graph and axis subdirectories to
428 make "from pyx.graph import *" working as expected
430 - addontop added to stackedbarpos
431 - column -> columnname renaming where appropriate
432 - histogram style added
434 - function needs explicit variable definition (implicit variable definition is deprecated)
435 - column names are inherited by data.data() except when copy=0;
436 unused columns are silently ignored now
437 - dynamic function data on a logarithmic axis uses isinstance check now
438 (although it removes the only (mis)use of axis.inverse, it is a
439 temporary solution only)
441 - extend graph keys to allow for several columns
442 - axis data handling refactoring:
443 - introcuded an axis positioner (module graph.axis.positioner)
444 - introduced anchoredaxis to make axis data and positioning local to a graph
445 - linkedaxis is a special version of anchoredaxis and is generic
446 (it uses the new linkpainter provided by an axis)
447 - unification of split and bar axes;
448 removed some black magic in baraxis in favor of a nestedbar axis
449 - x linked to x2 etc. is now possible
450 - axis.inverse was removed (the only place it was (mis)used was by a function)
452 - allow to transform axis after layout
453 - [xy]axisat arguments in the constructor to easily move [xy]-axes
454 to a position defined the orthogonal axis
455 - remove axispos (use the axis dictionary now, since it now contains
456 anchored axis instances and those have shortcuts for the axis positioner
459 - tfm->dvi conversion rounding bugfix
460 - fix parsing of empty strings ("") in fontmap files (reported by John Owens, bug #1218983)
462 - support for halign of boxes and content of boxes (see halign example)
463 - take units xscale into account in parbox
464 - messageparser for replaced fontsizes: Warning -> implemented by texmessage.fontwarning
465 - messageparser for size differences at the end: Warning not Exception -> implemented by texmessage.fontwarning
466 - messageparser for overfull/underfull vbox/hbox: Warning not Exception -> implemented by texmessage.boxwarning
467 - dvicopy flag removed
468 - allow argument of set to be None
469 - rename nomathmode and nophantom to clearmathmode and clearphantom
470 - texmessagepattern for easy creation of simple TeX message parsers
471 - allow long file names in file checking TeX message parsers
472 - no newline removal to not disturbe TeX messages when reporting errors
473 - reworked documentation to use the python documentation standards
475 - linewidth is no longer a unit.length subclass but expects a such as first argument
477 - correct EOL handling while reading DSC's (reported by Markus Meyer)
478 - pattern module: new
479 - moved canvas.pattern to its own module together with the new PDFpattern class
480 - add some default patterns: hatched and crosshatched
482 - improve the smoothing deformer
483 - add a parallel deformer
485 - the very old tex module finally got removed completely
487 - a simple converter from dvi to EPS/PS/PDF files (dviconvert.py) has been added
488 - a simple imagine to EPS/PS/PDF converter (imgconvert.py) has been added
489 - a simple dvitype.py has been added
490 - update address of FSF all over the place
495 - EPS header fixed (reported by Russell Lang, cf. bug #1065099)
497 - use CURDIR instead of PWD (reported by David M. Cooke, bug #1070285)
499 - support windows line endings (patch by Hans-Andreas Engel, cf. bug #1071160)
501 - line attributes handling fixed (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
502 - fix typos in predefined symbols (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
503 - cut column name list at the max. number of columns (reported by Arnd Baecker)
505 - add INDEX and README files to distribution
506 - new errorbar and julia example
508 - pdf snippets for tipa based phonetic transliterations
513 - new module for inclusion of bitmap images
515 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
516 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
518 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
519 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
520 - enlarge was misspelled as enlarged
521 - renamed _bbox -> bbox_pt
522 - new bbox method center, which returns the coordinates of the center
524 - enlarge and enlarged do no longer interprete unqualified lengths as
527 - unit.cm, unit.t_cm, etc. are no longer sub classes but instances
529 - never convert implicitly into visual/width, etc. lengths (this is more
530 about usage of the unit module in various other modules) (TODO: update
532 - support for string initialization removed
533 - support for initialisation with other length removed
534 - lengths can now be divided by other lengths (as suggested by Michael Gruber
535 and Magnus Lie Hetland)
537 - postpone reading of fontmap files until TeX/LaTeX is started
538 - sign of font number in dvifile (reported by Michael Gruber)
541 - added new classes page and document for multipage PostScript output
542 - apply deformers (instead of trafos) in draw method
544 - decrease interval for dotted and dash-dotted lines for better visual
546 - setup.py and distribution:
547 - create siteconfig on install to store positions of the shared data
550 - graph style + data reorganization
551 - modularization of the graph styles by separating data handling and drawing tasks
552 - several graph styles can now be combined together
553 - graph data can internally now combine different data sources
554 (by that, some nasty side effects could have been removed)
555 - enum -> num renaming
556 - allow for horizontally and vertically centered graph key alignment and a key background
557 - fix bug that graph was not finished automatically when a bbox was specified
558 manually (reported by David Barton)
560 - pathel -> pathitem, etc. renaming
561 - methods accepting a parameter value / arc length now also allow the user to
562 pass a tuple (subpath, param) / (subpath, arclen)
563 - normpath constructor no longer accepts a path or normpath as argument but only a list
564 of normsubpaths. Use the new normpath method of the path instead to construct a normpath
566 - normsubpath can now deal with short (i.e. shorter than epsilon) segments correctly
567 - the intersect and split methods of normpath and normsubpath have been completely rewritten and
568 now take the accuracy epsilon correctly into account. Note that for a closed subpath the
569 split function now returns the segment containing the closing point as first element
570 in the result list (before, it was returned as last element).
571 - normsubpathitems and normsubpath now implement much more methods also provided by
572 path and normpath instances
573 - normpath.append no longer accepts pathitems but only normsubpaths
574 - deformer module: new
575 - moved cycloid and smoothed from deco into deformer
577 - handle "BoundingBox: (atend)" (cf. bug #945621 reported by Jim Boyle)
578 - kpsearch option to search for file using the kpathsea library (contributed by Michael Gruber)
580 - PSCmd and PSOp are now joined in a new class canvasitem
582 - decorated path no longer allows modification of its path
583 - new method excluderange which allows to remove certain parameter ranges from the stroked path
584 - additional canvas provided by decorated path is now called ornaments
585 - constriction=None now indicates an arrowhead without constriction
587 - trafos are now deformers
589 - a bunch of bargraph examples have been added
594 - fix errorbar range adjustment
595 - fix empty tick lists bug (reported by Marko Vendelin, cf. bug #977323)
596 - graph/style module:
597 - symbolline drawing order in graph key (cf. bug #990687)
599 - access to builtin list (reported by Marcus Mendenhall, cf. bug #1042458)
604 - fix drawing with background
605 - fix insertion of a zero length path when the whole line is outside
606 the valid axis range (reported by Marko Vendelin)
608 - include source for faq and manual
609 - distribute the pdf instead of postscript (manual, faq, examples)
614 - fixed title=None + graph key issue reported by Gabriel Vasseur
615 - graph.axis.painter.plain -> graph.axis.painter.regular
616 (as it was in parts of the documentation already)
617 - changeable-gridattrs-become-None-bug fixed
618 - graph style cutting outside lines (double-)fixed
622 - fixes missing install of the graph and axis directories introduced in 0.6
623 - some minor updates to the faq
628 - reorganisation of the graph structure finished (there might be some
629 small pending issues, but the basic restructuring is done with this release):
630 - graph splitted into several modules in pyx/graph and pyx/graph/axis
631 - painters are using the new attribute scheme including changeable
633 - graph styles rewrite
635 - axis zeropath feature has been removed
636 - mergelabels removed; linpart doesn't have a label argument anymore
637 - names and texts removed from baraxis
638 - iteration on graph style, when it is used several times in the same graph
639 - symbols + lines -> symbollines; symbols do not allow setting lineattrs,
640 and lines not symbolattrs
641 - manual line clipping (do not include unneeded line segments when the
642 axis range is set manually etc.)
643 - automatic file key titles
644 - graph.data now also includes the old data module
645 - data.list adds (by default) a line number like data.file
646 (thus regular columns are counted from 1)
648 - added new pathels multilineto_pt and multicurveto which allows to specify
649 a list of points and can thus be much more efficient
650 - internal methods return coordinates in pts
651 - arclentoparam returns only parameters not total length
652 - added path.arclength_pt, path.at_pt, path.begin_pt, path.end_pt (and
653 correspondingly for normpath)
654 - complete refactoring of the normpath class: normpaths now consist of
655 normsubpaths which themselves consist of normlines and normcurves This is
656 much more convenient for any routines working with normpaths.
657 - reversing of closed sub paths does not change the first point of the sub
659 - renamed: arclength -> arclen
660 - renamed: lentopar -> arclentoparam
661 - renamed: glue -> joined
662 - normpath now supports join, the in-place version of joined
663 - path and normpath method raise exception instead of returning None
664 when parameter is out of range
665 - the accuracy epsilon can now only be specified in normpath and normsubpath
666 constructor and no longer in arguments of path and normpath methods
667 - negative parameters are no longer supported in path and normpath methods
668 - path and normpath methods which accept parameter value param now
669 alternatively accept an arc length
673 - arrow heads are no longer stroked (as suggested by Magnus Lie Hetland)
675 - writeEPSfile deprecates writetofile
676 - internally, write methods are renamed in outputPS
677 - canvas constructor no longer accepts variable argument list but
678 expects a list of attrs as first argument (defaulting to []) and
679 a texrunner as second argument (defaulting to text.defaulttexrunner)
680 - set, draw, stroke and fill no longer return self, i.e., the canvas, but None
682 - added inplace add (__iadd__), enlarge and transform methods
683 - callers use inplace add where possible now (yielding a considerable
685 - "undefined" corners of bounding boxes are no longer supported which makes
686 the bounding box operations much more efficient.
688 - renamed _xxx -> xxx_pt
690 - removed showbbox argument of epsfile class
692 - default handling of texmessages as in the new attribute scheme
693 - multiple insert bug fixed
694 - made left, right, width, height, depth information available (x length
695 not taking into account box transformations)
696 - ignore tex message "Please type a command or say `\\end'"
697 - added textboxes that are sequentially filled (experimental)
699 - mandel.py (contributed by Stephen Phillips)
701 - length comparision (David Beach)
705 - switched to the new parser using pythons parser module
707 - removed, it all lives in the graph.data module now, while before it
708 was splitted into two separate modules
710 - not imported by default anymore
711 - obsolete warning when importing this module
715 - include missing c-files for optional extension modules
717 - fix unpaired BeginProcSet/EndProcSet in font enconding
720 - setup.py and distribution:
721 - allow customization of the extension modules built (via setup.cfg)
722 - disable building pykpathsea module by default
723 - more detailed description of install process in INSTALL
724 - provide more information and pointers to other files in README
725 - include example data files in distribution (suggested by Andrea Riciputi)
726 - force dvips to write ps files instead of printing them (suggested by Otto Tronarp)
727 - includ pyxfaq.pdf in distribution
729 - improved is-readable test for lfs files and pyx.def file
730 - explicitly quit (La)TeX in cleantmp (helps when quitting with <Ctrl>C)
731 - showwaitfortex implemented following a suggestion by Fernando Perez
732 (waitfortex is increased to 60 seconds now)
733 - support of TeX extension --ipc for reading dvi results while TeX keeps running
734 - configurable font mapping files (via pyxrc or parameter of the texrunner constructor)
735 - markers to get access to positions within TeX expressions
736 - fix: allow for e-tex in texmessage.start (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
737 - fix: print warning at syntax errors in font mapping file and continue (cf. bug #795271)
738 - remove limitation on number of fonts in dvi file
739 - added native virtual font support
740 - dvicopy support not needed anymore (it is still available, but obsolete and
741 removed from the documentation)
742 - do not include too many glyphs in the eps file
743 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
744 - dvifile module (NEW):
745 - separated from the text module
746 - dvifile class returns standard pyx canvas instances on readpage
748 - removed manualpart and partitioners mix keyword
749 - results of the splitting at "=" in graph.function were not stripped
750 - skip title=None in key (cf. bug #821284), properly align a single key entry
751 - another (the last?!) axis redesign: axispos -> class of its own
752 - some axispos name have changed slightly (zeroline -> zeropath etc.)
753 - tick/data-vmin/vmax removed
756 - minor enhancements in exponentionaltexter
757 - axes alongs paths including a set of examples
758 - mixing a partitioner and manual ticks by two distinct keyword arguments now
759 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
760 - part -> parter renaming
762 - stroke, fill, draw, set and insert do no longer accept variable length argument lists but
763 an attribute list as last argument
764 - stroke and fill now support trafos (TODO: documentation)
765 - uppercase version of a4, a3, ... paperformats
767 - new module for loading PyX configuration information
769 - automatically import main modules into pyx namespace as suggested by Fernando
772 - check for sorting of parameter list passed to path.split method
773 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
775 - contains decoratedpath and decorators from canvas module
776 - all predefined decorators are instances now (deco.stroked is thus ok) and
777 attributes have to be passed explicitely, e.g., deco.earrow.small(attrs=color.rgb.red)
778 and deco.stroked([color.rgb.blue])
779 - style module (NEW):
780 - contains all line- and fillstyles which formerly had been defined in the canvas module
781 - dash now supports relative dash lengths (as suggested by Otto Tronarp)
783 - fixed incorrect handling of - (for instance -x**2 was not negative)
785 - contents have been moved to the (obsolete) tex module, which was the only user anyhow, and
786 the module itself was removed
788 - new fallback solution in pure python
789 - bugfix: pyxadapt.h needs to open files binary under Windows (reported by Gary Pajer)
791 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
793 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
797 - "in" to "inch" in paperformats
799 - fix pyx.def hack occuring whenever \ProcessOptions* was used by a package
801 - implement different file formats for Python version of module
803 - python fallback solution should behave the same way as c extension module (closes SF bug #799182 reported
804 by Marcus Mendenhall)
806 - added "connector" to __all__
810 - separate texter out of the axispainter
811 - axis/partitioner/texter/painter/axispos redesign & interfaces
812 - tick.text is renamed to tick.label
813 - ticks and labels are renamed to tickpos/tickdist and labelpos/labeldist in partitioning
814 - ticks can be used in the part to mix a partitioner with some manual ticks
815 -> manualpart and the mix technique is not needed anymore
816 (both things are still available and working, but they will be removed in the future)
817 - _ensurefrac is implemented inside the frac constructor now; initialization is possible by:
818 - a (enum, denom) tuple now (previously there were two arguments)
819 - a string (as before via _ensurefrac)
820 - exponential strings are allowed as well (e.g. "1e10" etc.)
821 - a float (precision is determined by floatprecision -- the number of decimal places)
826 - reset() method for the texrunner
827 - automatic restart of a TeX instance with the same preamble (preamble changes are not possible)
828 - texmessage.loadfd for accepting font description loading
829 - don't bail out on width_index == 0, but mark character invalid instead
831 - support for specials; pyxgraphics flag
832 - support psfonts.map: font names, font encodings
833 - bugfix \def\ProcessPyXBox -> \long\def\ProcessPyXBox
834 - improved lfs handling
836 - full documentation via doc strings
838 - some preliminary version
840 - multiple radii (up to two per point) and softnesses
841 - ensurecenter added --- do we always force the creation of a center?
843 - lentopar methods added including some tests
845 - new parameter bbox allows to override the bounding box of the eps file
849 - derive TFMError and DVIError correctly from exceptions.Exception
850 - close files and pipes, if they are no longer used (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
851 - remove DeprecationWarning in Python 2.3 (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
853 - correct rounding algorithm (Michael Schindler)
855 - refer to the graphs texrunner instead of the defaulttexrunner (cf. #728209)
856 - rounding towards zero bugfix in autolinpart
857 - log axis range rating bugfix
859 - addarg bugs (#738724)
861 - fix mixing up of height and width in scale calculation
862 - and various other fixer here and there
866 - fix bug in dvi rule code where width was height
867 - fix preamble attribute checking bug
868 - fix texmessage.load pattern search instead of pattern match bug
869 - renamed vbox to parbox (was done in 0.3 partially only)
871 - allow for tuples in arguments of the data class
872 - convenience: exchanged order of named parameters in data.data
874 - convenience: allow for part=None in _axis (base of linaxis and logaxis)
876 - added a latex example (requested)
877 - added a attributechange example (requested)
878 - added back the integral example (requested; prior PyX 0.3 it was part of the user manual)
879 - small change in vector example (allow for the access to the texrunner)
880 - examples included in source distribution
882 - correct arrow template calculation for very short paths
886 - new easy to use example generation (will hopefully lead to nice examples)
888 - new module for handling of convex polygons (taken out of the graph module)
890 - new module containing a collection of helper functions (taken out of the graph module)
891 - moved the attrlist into helper -- as plain functions; attrlist becomes obsolete
893 - new module: a new and preferable integration of TeX/LaTeX
895 - strip glyphs from pfa/pfb-fonts
896 - there is a C implementation taken from pdftex
897 - fallback solution via an external program (pfb2pfa)
899 - (partial) C binding to libkpathsea
900 - fallback solution via an external program (kpsewhich)
902 - removed some code duplication (various axis painters)
903 - use text module instead of the obsolete tex module
904 - allow for tailing zeros of automatic generated labels
905 - allow for missing data in bar graphs -> skipmissing parameter
906 - remove the support for variables given as keyword arguments in data constructor
907 - use context instead of extern for extern variables and functions
908 - graph keys; titles in data/function/etc.
910 - new classes for visual and width lengths, aliases for user length (u_pt = pt)
911 - all length classes have now by default a quantifier 1 (instead of 0), such that,
912 for instance, 5*unit.t_cm() == unit.t_cm(5)
913 - default_unit now has to be set via unit.set. For instance: unit.set(defaultunit="m").
914 - convert_to is now an internal function, which moreover does not longer accept tuples or lists
916 - new class _bbox (the former bbox) which accepts points in the constructor. This is used
917 for internal purposes.
918 - the bbox constructor now accepts user lengths in the constructor.
919 - new methods height, width, top, bottom, left, right
920 - ll & ur ???, what about ul and lr -> ugly!
921 - enlarge (was enhance) now allows selective enlargement to the left, bottom, right and top
922 - output HiResBoundingBox
923 - never reduce bbox upon output
925 - new constructor signature, more in line with rest of PyX:
926 epsfile(x, y, filename, **additional_args)
928 - removed additional column support in addcolumn; removed _addcolumn
929 - line reduction for datafile like the every parameter in gnuplot
931 - new way of PS prolog generation that writes only necessary parts
932 - added support for patterns
933 - canvas.insert() now supports arguments
934 - bbox of canvas can be specified in writetofile command explicitely
935 - writetofile does not return self anymore
936 - arrow template now uses intersection with circle to get size right
937 (as per a suggestion by Michael Schindler)
940 - changed the handling of extern functions and all variables
942 - gradient renamed to palette
944 - problem with sizefile on windows (tex module)
945 - allow for strings in graphxy's width and height; allow for width only (graph module)
946 - disable rating for labelattrs equals None (graph module)
947 - defaultstyle selection, when a list of data is provided to the plot function (graph module)
948 - traverse when adding functions as arguments of operators (mathtree module)
949 - allow for extern functions in addcolumn (data module)
950 - just one common place for the version number
951 - fix incorrect exception name MathError (path module)
952 - prevent double return of intersections for closed sub paths
957 - allow division of length by numbers
959 - new transformation: slant
960 - renamed all trafo methods to use the participle (i.e translate->translated)
961 - the name of all trafo subclasses are verbs (i.e. translation->translate)
963 - mark class renamed to symbol
964 - (text-)box distance measurement
965 - moved axis partitioning to axis and axis painter
966 - automatic axis partitioning (now officially: general cleanup, distance measurement, documentation)
968 - baraxis, baraxispainter, and bar style
970 - previously named datafile module
971 - class "_datafile" renamed to class "data"
972 - class sectionfile added
975 - extern variables and functions (support in graph.function, graph.paramfunction and data.data)
978 - deferred to Version 0.3
979 - running TeX "on the fly" is basically implemented
981 - transformation bug (#624068, trafo module)
982 - canvas transformations (canvas module???)
983 - textbox alignment (graph module)
984 - return linewidth upon calculation with linewidths (unit module)
985 - allow column number variables with several digits
987 - british and american spellings (color module, graph module)
988 - small logo modifications