6 - make dash length available
8 - SlantFont & Co support
9 - keep an eye on PEP 324 (popen 5): it could make the texrunner much easier
10 - messageparser for replaced fontsizes: Warning
11 - messageparser for size differences at the end: Warning not Exception
12 - messageparser for overfull/underfull vbox/hbox: Warning not Exception
13 - newline removal when not disturbing texmessages only
15 - common bboxes for different graphs
16 - 3d graphs, circular graphs
17 - axis painter labelattrs=None + automatic axis partitioning leads to no valid partitioning
18 - default titles of the data should try to be valid TeX expressions (handle "_" etc.)
19 - when all titles are None, a graph key currently raises an exception
20 - translatecanvas should be the default in graph.style.symbol
21 - graph.style and graph.data modules
22 - exceptions in drawsymbol & friends...
23 - fix docu (or code) of gridattrs functionality of axis painters
24 (how can one, e.g. draw a grid at the ticks and not at the subticks)
26 - use csv module (new in 2.3)
27 - Check for "inf" and "nan" in datafiles.
28 (When plotted, the graph does not complain, but the postscript will be broken)
30 - add styles using curves instead of lines
31 - add "steps" style for histogram-like plots
33 - finish multi page PostScript output
34 - contructor should only take a texrunner keyword argument
38 - style and color module:
39 - support modification of existing styles via __call__
41 - height -> getheight, ...
43 - might be moved into the graph
44 - perform calc by means of Python itself (see eval code in graph.data, but
45 we should use compiled code instead of eval)
47 - support single-character mode
49 - should split also allow the user to pass arclens (instead of params)
50 - there are many occurences of 1e-5 left. Should they be replaced by the global _epsilon,
51 which would change the constructors to epsilon=None... if epsilon is None: epsilon=_epsilon
53 - what should we do for palette when only one entry
55 - is the early conversion with unit.topt unit-modification-save?
57 - better names for the helper functions ?
58 - why does smoothed through away short normpathitems instead of simply ignoring them?
60 - clearly distingish between readers and writers. dvifile, epsfile, etc. might
61 be renamed to dvireader, epsreader ...
67 - more details in path constructor: allowed pathels, first pathel...
73 Attributes (clearing merging ) and changeable attributes should be
74 explained at a central place.
75 - section titles: "Axes" -> "Axes - module axis" or similar
77 - linealign and circlealign
79 update length constructor description (strings are no longer supported, etc.)
81 styles: document what data name the styles accept (require). Try also to be more
82 userfriendly and not to describe immediately the internals of the implementation:
83 (see e.g. class.style.symbol)
86 - describe creation and modification (inplace and ``modify by new'') of
91 - path parameters and argument handling
92 - document module: new
93 - container classes for document and pages
94 - document.paperformat class (strings are deprecated)
96 - writeEPSfile wraps a canvas in a single page document and performs the output
100 - completely rewritten
101 - pswriter module: new
102 - separate PS output from canvas
104 - allow selection on zero range palette (reported by Francisco Borges, cf. bug #1116257)
107 - addontop added to stackedbarpos; TODO: documentation
108 - column -> columnname renaming where appropriate; TODO: documentation
109 - histogram style added; TODO documentation
111 - function needs explicit variable definition (implicit variable definition is deprecated); TODO: documentation
112 - prolog module: deleted (replaced by resource module)
113 - resource module: new
114 - resources: fonts and definitions
118 - tfm->dvi conversion rounding bugfix
119 - changed requirements to python 2.1:
120 - nested scopes are needed without fallback solution by the path module
121 - use warning module for warnings
123 - the very old tex module finally got removed completely
128 - EPS header fixed (reported by Russell Lang, cf. bug #1065099)
130 - use CURDIR instead of PWD (reported by David M. Cooke, bug #1070285)
132 - support windows line endings (patch by Hans-Andreas Engel, cf. bug #1071160)
134 - line attributes handling fixed (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
135 - fix typos in predefined symbols (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
136 - cut column name list at the max. number of columns (reported by Arnd Baecker)
138 - add INDEX and README files to distribution
139 - new errorbar and julia example
141 - pdf snippets for tipa based phonetic transliterations
146 - new module for inclusion of bitmap images
148 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
149 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
151 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
152 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
153 - enlarge was misspelled as enlarged
154 - renamed _bbox -> bbox_pt
155 - new bbox method center, which returns the coordinates of the center
157 - enlarge and enlarged do no longer interprete unqualified lengths as
160 - unit.cm, unit.t_cm, etc. are no longer sub classes but instances
162 - never convert implicitly into visual/width, etc. lengths (this is more
163 about usage of the unit module in various other modules) (TODO: update
165 - support for string initialization removed
166 - support for initialisation with other length removed
167 - lengths can now be divided by other lengths (as suggested by Michael Gruber
168 and Magnus Lie HHetland)
170 - postpone reading of fontmap files until TeX/LaTeX is started
171 - sign of font number in dvifile (reported by Michael Gruber)
174 - added new classes page and document for multipage PostScript output
175 - apply deformers (instead of trafos) in draw method
177 - decrease interval for dotted and dash-dotted lines for better visual
179 - setup.py and distribution:
180 - create siteconfig on install to store positions of the shared data
183 - graph style + data reorganization
184 - modularization of the graph styles by separating data handling and drawing tasks
185 - several graph styles can now be combined together
186 - graph data can internally now combine different data sources
187 (by that, some nasty side effects could have been removed)
188 - enum -> num renaming
189 - allow for horizontally and vertically centered graph key alignment and a key background
190 - fix bug that graph was not finished automatically when a bbox was specified
191 manually (reported by David Barton)
193 - pathel -> pathitem, etc. renaming
194 - methods accepting a parameter value / arc length now also allow the user to
195 pass a tuple (subpath, param) / (subpath, arclen)
196 - normpath constructor no longer accepts a path or normpath as argument but only a list
197 of normsubpaths. Use the new normpath method of the path instead to construct a normpath
199 - normsubpath can now deal with short (i.e. shorter than epsilon) segments correctly
200 - the intersect and split methods of normpath and normsubpath have been completely rewritten and
201 now take the accuracy epsilon correctly into account. Note that for a closed subpath the
202 split function now returns the segment containing the closing point as first element
203 in the result list (before, it was returned as last element).
204 - normsubpathitems and normsubpath now implement much more methods also provided by
205 path and normpath instances
206 - normpath.append no longer accepts pathitems but only normsubpaths
207 - deformer module: new
208 - moved cycloid and smoothed from deco into deformer
210 - handle "BoundingBox: (atend)" (cf. bug #945621 reported by Jim Boyle)
211 - kpsearch option to search for file using the kpathsea library (contributed by Michael Gruber)
213 - PSCmd and PSOp are now joined in a new class canvasitem
215 - decorated path no longer allows modification of its path
216 - new method excluderange which allows to remove certain parameter ranges from the stroked path
217 - additional canvas provided by decorated path is now called ornaments
218 - constriction=None now indicates an arrowhead without constriction
220 - trafos are now deformers
222 - a bunch of bargraph examples have been added
227 - fix errorbar range adjustment
228 - fix empty tick lists bug (reported by Marko Vendelin, cf. bug #977323)
229 - graph/style module:
230 - symbolline drawing order in graph key (cf. bug #990687)
232 - access to builtin list (reported by Marcus Mendenhall, cf. bug #1042458)
237 - fix drawing with background
238 - fix insertion of a zero length path when the whole line is outside
239 the valid axis range (reported by Marko Vendelin)
241 - include source for faq and manual
242 - distribute the pdf instead of postscript (manual, faq, examples)
247 - fixed title=None + graph key issue reported by Gabriel Vasseur
248 - graph.axis.painter.plain -> graph.axis.painter.regular
249 (as it was in parts of the documentation already)
250 - changeable-gridattrs-become-None-bug fixed
251 - graph style cutting outside lines (double-)fixed
255 - fixes missing install of the graph and axis directories introduced in 0.6
256 - some minor updates to the faq
261 - reorganisation of the graph structure finished (there might be some
262 small pending issues, but the basic restructuring is done with this release):
263 - graph splitted into several modules in pyx/graph and pyx/graph/axis
264 - painters are using the new attribute scheme including changeable
266 - graph styles rewrite
268 - axis zeropath feature has been removed
269 - mergelabels removed; linpart doesn't have a label argument anymore
270 - names and texts removed from baraxis
271 - iteration on graph style, when it is used several times in the same graph
272 - symbols + lines -> symbollines; symbols do not allow setting lineattrs,
273 and lines not symbolattrs
274 - manual line clipping (do not include unneeded line segments when the
275 axis range is set manually etc.)
276 - automatic file key titles
277 - graph.data now also includes the old data module
278 - data.list adds (by default) a line number like data.file
279 (thus regular columns are counted from 1)
281 - added new pathels multilineto_pt and multicurveto which allows to specify
282 a list of points and can thus be much more efficient
283 - internal methods return coordinates in pts
284 - arclentoparam returns only parameters not total length
285 - added path.arclength_pt, path.at_pt, path.begin_pt, path.end_pt (and
286 correspondingly for normpath)
287 - complete refactoring of the normpath class: normpaths now consist of
288 normsubpaths which themselves consist of normlines and normcurves This is
289 much more convenient for any routines working with normpaths.
290 - reversing of closed sub paths does not change the first point of the sub
292 - renamed: arclength -> arclen
293 - renamed: lentopar -> arclentoparam
294 - renamed: glue -> joined
295 - normpath now supports join, the in-place version of joined
296 - path and normpath method raise exception instead of returning None
297 when parameter is out of range
298 - the accuracy epsilon can now only be specified in normpath and normsubpath
299 constructor and no longer in arguments of path and normpath methods
300 - negative parameters are no longer supported in path and normpath methods
301 - path and normpath methods which accept parameter value param now
302 alternatively accept an arc length
306 - arrow heads are no longer stroked (as suggested by Magnus Lie Hetland)
308 - writeEPSfile deprecates writetofile
309 - internally, write methods are renamed in outputPS
310 - canvas constructor no longer accepts variable argument list but
311 expects a list of attrs as first argument (defaulting to []) and
312 a texrunner as second argument (defaulting to text.defaulttexrunner)
313 - set, draw, stroke and fill no longer return self, i.e., the canvas, but None
315 - added inplace add (__iadd__), enlarge and transform methods
316 - callers use inplace add where possible now (yielding a considerable
318 - "undefined" corners of bounding boxes are no longer supported which makes
319 the bounding box operations much more efficient.
321 - renamed _xxx -> xxx_pt
323 - removed showbbox argument of epsfile class
325 - default handling of texmessages as in the new attribute scheme
326 - multiple insert bug fixed
327 - made left, right, width, height, depth information available (x length
328 not taking into account box transformations)
329 - ignore tex message "Please type a command or say `\\end'"
330 - added textboxes that are sequentially filled (experimental)
332 - mandel.py (contributed by Stephen Phillips)
334 - length comparision (David Beach)
338 - switched to the new parser using pythons parser module
340 - removed, it all lives in the graph.data module now, while before it
341 was splitted into two separate modules
343 - not imported by default anymore
344 - obsolete warning when importing this module
348 - include missing c-files for optional extension modules
350 - fix unpaired BeginProcSet/EndProcSet in font enconding
353 - setup.py and distribution:
354 - allow customization of the extension modules built (via setup.cfg)
355 - disable building pykpathsea module by default
356 - more detailed description of install process in INSTALL
357 - provide more information and pointers to other files in README
358 - include example data files in distribution (suggested by Andrea Riciputi)
359 - force dvips to write ps files instead of printing them (suggested by Otto Tronarp)
360 - includ pyxfaq.pdf in distribution
362 - improved is-readable test for lfs files and pyx.def file
363 - explicitly quit (La)TeX in cleantmp (helps when quitting with <Ctrl>C)
364 - showwaitfortex implemented following a suggestion by Fernando Perez
365 (waitfortex is increased to 60 seconds now)
366 - support of TeX extension --ipc for reading dvi results while TeX keeps running
367 - configurable font mapping files (via pyxrc or parameter of the texrunner constructor)
368 - markers to get access to positions within TeX expressions
369 - fix: allow for e-tex in texmessage.start (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
370 - fix: print warning at syntax errors in font mapping file and continue (cf. bug #795271)
371 - remove limitation on number of fonts in dvi file
372 - added native virtual font support
373 - dvicopy support not needed anymore (it is still available, but obsolete and
374 removed from the documentation)
375 - do not include too many glyphs in the eps file
376 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
377 - dvifile module (NEW):
378 - separated from the text module
379 - dvifile class returns standard pyx canvas instances on readpage
381 - removed manualpart and partitioners mix keyword
382 - results of the splitting at "=" in graph.function were not stripped
383 - skip title=None in key (cf. bug #821284), properly align a single key entry
384 - another (the last?!) axis redesign: axispos -> class of its own
385 - some axispos name have changed slightly (zeroline -> zeropath etc.)
386 - tick/data-vmin/vmax removed
389 - minor enhancements in exponentionaltexter
390 - axes alongs paths including a set of examples
391 - mixing a partitioner and manual ticks by two distinct keyword arguments now
392 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
393 - part -> parter renaming
395 - stroke, fill, draw, set and insert do no longer accept variable length argument lists but
396 an attribute list as last argument
397 - stroke and fill now support trafos (TODO: documentation)
398 - uppercase version of a4, a3, ... paperformats
400 - new module for loading PyX configuration information
402 - automatically import main modules into pyx namespace as suggested by Fernando
405 - check for sorting of parameter list passed to path.split method
406 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
408 - contains decoratedpath and decorators from canvas module
409 - all predefined decorators are instances now (deco.stroked is thus ok) and
410 attributes have to be passed explicitely, e.g., deco.earrow.small(attrs=color.rgb.red)
411 and deco.stroked([color.rgb.blue])
412 - style module (NEW):
413 - contains all line- and fillstyles which formerly had been defined in the canvas module
414 - dash now supports relative dash lengths (as suggested by Otto Tronarp)
416 - fixed incorrect handling of - (for instance -x**2 was not negative)
418 - contents have been moved to the (obsolete) tex module, which was the only user anyhow, and
419 the module itself was removed
421 - new fallback solution in pure python
422 - bugfix: pyxadapt.h needs to open files binary under Windows (reported by Gary Pajer)
424 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
426 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
430 - "in" to "inch" in paperformats
432 - fix pyx.def hack occuring whenever \ProcessOptions* was used by a package
434 - implement different file formats for Python version of module
436 - python fallback solution should behave the same way as c extension module (closes SF bug #799182 reported
437 by Marcus Mendenhall)
439 - added "connector" to __all__
443 - separate texter out of the axispainter
444 - axis/partitioner/texter/painter/axispos redesign & interfaces
445 - tick.text is renamed to tick.label
446 - ticks and labels are renamed to tickpos/tickdist and labelpos/labeldist in partitioning
447 - ticks can be used in the part to mix a partitioner with some manual ticks
448 -> manualpart and the mix technique is not needed anymore
449 (both things are still available and working, but they will be removed in the future)
450 - _ensurefrac is implemented inside the frac constructor now; initialization is possible by:
451 - a (enum, denom) tuple now (previously there were two arguments)
452 - a string (as before via _ensurefrac)
453 - exponential strings are allowed as well (e.g. "1e10" etc.)
454 - a float (precision is determined by floatprecision -- the number of decimal places)
459 - reset() method for the texrunner
460 - automatic restart of a TeX instance with the same preamble (preamble changes are not possible)
461 - texmessage.loadfd for accepting font description loading
462 - don't bail out on width_index == 0, but mark character invalid instead
464 - support for specials; pyxgraphics flag
465 - support psfonts.map: font names, font encodings
466 - bugfix \def\ProcessPyXBox -> \long\def\ProcessPyXBox
467 - improved lfs handling
469 - full documentation via doc strings
471 - some preliminary version
473 - multiple radii (up to two per point) and softnesses
474 - ensurecenter added --- do we always force the creation of a center?
476 - lentopar methods added including some tests
478 - new parameter bbox allows to override the bounding box of the eps file
482 - derive TFMError and DVIError correctly from exceptions.Exception
483 - close files and pipes, if they are no longer used (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
484 - remove DeprecationWarning in Python 2.3 (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
486 - correct rounding algorithm (Michael Schindler)
488 - refer to the graphs texrunner instead of the defaulttexrunner (cf. #728209)
489 - rounding towards zero bugfix in autolinpart
490 - log axis range rating bugfix
492 - addarg bugs (#738724)
494 - fix mixing up of height and width in scale calculation
495 - and various other fixer here and there
499 - fix bug in dvi rule code where width was height
500 - fix preamble attribute checking bug
501 - fix texmessage.load pattern search instead of pattern match bug
502 - renamed vbox to parbox (was done in 0.3 partially only)
504 - allow for tuples in arguments of the data class
505 - convenience: exchanged order of named parameters in data.data
507 - convenience: allow for part=None in _axis (base of linaxis and logaxis)
509 - added a latex example (requested)
510 - added a attributechange example (requested)
511 - added back the integral example (requested; prior PyX 0.3 it was part of the user manual)
512 - small change in vector example (allow for the access to the texrunner)
513 - examples included in source distribution
515 - correct arrow template calculation for very short paths
519 - new easy to use example generation (will hopefully lead to nice examples)
521 - new module for handling of convex polygons (taken out of the graph module)
523 - new module containing a collection of helper functions (taken out of the graph module)
524 - moved the attrlist into helper -- as plain functions; attrlist becomes obsolete
526 - new module: a new and preferable integration of TeX/LaTeX
528 - strip glyphs from pfa/pfb-fonts
529 - there is a C implementation taken from pdftex
530 - fallback solution via an external program (pfb2pfa)
532 - (partial) C binding to libkpathsea
533 - fallback solution via an external program (kpsewhich)
535 - removed some code duplication (various axis painters)
536 - use text module instead of the obsolete tex module
537 - allow for tailing zeros of automatic generated labels
538 - allow for missing data in bar graphs -> skipmissing parameter
539 - remove the support for variables given as keyword arguments in data constructor
540 - use context instead of extern for extern variables and functions
541 - graph keys; titles in data/function/etc.
543 - new classes for visual and width lengths, aliases for user length (u_pt = pt)
544 - all length classes have now by default a quantifier 1 (instead of 0), such that,
545 for instance, 5*unit.t_cm() == unit.t_cm(5)
546 - default_unit now has to be set via unit.set. For instance: unit.set(defaultunit="m").
547 - convert_to is now an internal function, which moreover does not longer accept tuples or lists
549 - new class _bbox (the former bbox) which accepts points in the constructor. This is used
550 for internal purposes.
551 - the bbox constructor now accepts user lengths in the constructor.
552 - new methods height, width, top, bottom, left, right
553 - ll & ur ???, what about ul and lr -> ugly!
554 - enlarge (was enhance) now allows selective enlargement to the left, bottom, right and top
555 - output HiResBoundingBox
556 - never reduce bbox upon output
558 - new constructor signature, more in line with rest of PyX:
559 epsfile(x, y, filename, **additional_args)
561 - removed additional column support in addcolumn; removed _addcolumn
562 - line reduction for datafile like the every parameter in gnuplot
564 - new way of PS prolog generation that writes only necessary parts
565 - added support for patterns
566 - canvas.insert() now supports arguments
567 - bbox of canvas can be specified in writetofile command explicitely
568 - writetofile does not return self anymore
569 - arrow template now uses intersection with circle to get size right
570 (as per a suggestion by Michael Schindler)
573 - changed the handling of extern functions and all variables
575 - gradient renamed to palette
577 - problem with sizefile on windows (tex module)
578 - allow for strings in graphxy's width and height; allow for width only (graph module)
579 - disable rating for labelattrs equals None (graph module)
580 - defaultstyle selection, when a list of data is provided to the plot function (graph module)
581 - traverse when adding functions as arguments of operators (mathtree module)
582 - allow for extern functions in addcolumn (data module)
583 - just one common place for the version number
584 - fix incorrect exception name MathError (path module)
585 - prevent double return of intersections for closed sub paths
590 - allow division of length by numbers
592 - new transformation: slant
593 - renamed all trafo methods to use the participle (i.e translate->translated)
594 - the name of all trafo subclasses are verbs (i.e. translation->translate)
596 - mark class renamed to symbol
597 - (text-)box distance measurement
598 - moved axis partitioning to axis and axis painter
599 - automatic axis partitioning (now officially: general cleanup, distance measurement, documentation)
601 - baraxis, baraxispainter, and bar style
603 - previously named datafile module
604 - class "_datafile" renamed to class "data"
605 - class sectionfile added
608 - extern variables and functions (support in graph.function, graph.paramfunction and data.data)
611 - deferred to Version 0.3
612 - running TeX "on the fly" is basically implemented
614 - transformation bug (#624068, trafo module)
615 - canvas transformations (canvas module???)
616 - textbox alignment (graph module)
617 - return linewidth upon calculation with linewidths (unit module)
618 - allow column number variables with several digits
620 - british and american spellings (color module, graph module)
621 - small logo modifications