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