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 - when all titles are None, a graph key currently raises an exception
19 - translatecanvas should be the default in graph.style.symbol
20 - graph.style and graph.data modules
21 - exceptions in drawsymbol & friends...
22 - fix docu (or code) of gridattrs functionality of axis painters
23 (how can one, e.g. draw a grid at the ticks and not at the subticks)
25 - use csv module (new in 2.3)
26 - Check for "inf" and "nan" in datafiles.
27 (When plotted, the graph does not complain, but the postscript will be broken)
29 - add styles using curves instead of lines
30 - add "steps" style for histogram-like plots
32 - finish multi page PostScript output
33 - contructor should only take a texrunner keyword argument
37 - style and color module:
38 - support modification of existing styles via __call__
40 - height -> getheight, ...
42 - might be moved into the graph
43 - perform calc by means of Python itself (see eval code in graph.data, but
44 we should use compiled code instead of eval)
46 - support single-character mode
48 - what should we do for palette when only one entry
50 - is the early conversion with unit.topt unit-modification-save?
52 - better names for the helper functions ?
53 - why does smoothed through away short normpathitems instead of simply ignoring them?
55 - clearly distingish between readers and writers. dvifile, epsfile, etc. might
56 be renamed to dvireader, epsreader ...
58 - stroking of patterns does not work in PDF
63 - more details in path constructor: allowed pathels, first pathel...
69 Attributes (clearing merging ) and changeable attributes should be
70 explained at a central place.
71 - section titles: "Axes" -> "Axes - module axis" or similar
73 - linealign and circlealign
75 update length constructor description (strings are no longer supported, etc.)
77 styles: document what data name the styles accept (require). Try also to be more
78 userfriendly and not to describe immediately the internals of the implementation:
79 (see e.g. class.style.symbol)
82 - describe creation and modification (inplace and ``modify by new'') of
87 - path parameters and argument handling
88 - document module: new
89 - container classes for document and pages
90 - document.paperformat class (strings are deprecated)
92 - writeEPSfile wraps a canvas in a single page document and performs the output
96 - completely rewritten: support for fonts and patterns has been added
97 - pswriter module: new
98 - separate PS output from canvas
100 - allow selection on zero range palette (reported by Francisco Borges, cf. bug #1116257)
103 - addontop added to stackedbarpos
104 - column -> columnname renaming where appropriate
105 - histogram style added
107 - function needs explicit variable definition (implicit variable definition is deprecated)
108 - column names are inherited by data.data() except when copy=0; unused columns are silently ignored now
109 - dynamic function data on a logarithmic axis uses isinstance check now
111 - extend graph keys to allow for several columns (TODO: documentation)
112 - axis data handling refactureing:
113 - introcuded an axis positioner
114 - introduced anchoredaxis to make axis data and positioning local to a graph
115 - linkedaxis is a special version of anchoredaxis and are generic (they use the new linkpainter provided by an axis)
116 - unification of split and bar axes; removed some black magic in baraxis in favor of a nestedbar axis
117 - x linked to x2 etc. is now possible
118 - axis.inverse was removed (the only place it was (mis)used was by a function)
120 - allow to transform axis after layout
121 - [xy]axisat arguments in the constructor to easily move [xy]-axes to the position
122 defined the orthogonal axis
123 - TODO: update documentation
124 - prolog module: deleted (replaced by resource module)
125 - resource module: new
126 - resources: fonts and definitions
130 - tfm->dvi conversion rounding bugfix
131 - fix parsing of empty strings ("") in fontmap files (reported by John Owens, bug #1218983)
132 - changed requirements to python 2.1:
133 - nested scopes are needed without fallback solution by the path module
134 - use warning module for warnings
136 - the very old tex module finally got removed completely
138 - correctly call base class constructor in linewidth
140 - correct EOL handling while reading DSC's (reported by Markus Meyer)
141 - update address of FSF in LICENSE file
146 - EPS header fixed (reported by Russell Lang, cf. bug #1065099)
148 - use CURDIR instead of PWD (reported by David M. Cooke, bug #1070285)
150 - support windows line endings (patch by Hans-Andreas Engel, cf. bug #1071160)
152 - line attributes handling fixed (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
153 - fix typos in predefined symbols (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
154 - cut column name list at the max. number of columns (reported by Arnd Baecker)
156 - add INDEX and README files to distribution
157 - new errorbar and julia example
159 - pdf snippets for tipa based phonetic transliterations
164 - new module for inclusion of bitmap images
166 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
167 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
169 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
170 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
171 - enlarge was misspelled as enlarged
172 - renamed _bbox -> bbox_pt
173 - new bbox method center, which returns the coordinates of the center
175 - enlarge and enlarged do no longer interprete unqualified lengths as
178 - unit.cm, unit.t_cm, etc. are no longer sub classes but instances
180 - never convert implicitly into visual/width, etc. lengths (this is more
181 about usage of the unit module in various other modules) (TODO: update
183 - support for string initialization removed
184 - support for initialisation with other length removed
185 - lengths can now be divided by other lengths (as suggested by Michael Gruber
186 and Magnus Lie HHetland)
188 - postpone reading of fontmap files until TeX/LaTeX is started
189 - sign of font number in dvifile (reported by Michael Gruber)
192 - added new classes page and document for multipage PostScript output
193 - apply deformers (instead of trafos) in draw method
195 - decrease interval for dotted and dash-dotted lines for better visual
197 - setup.py and distribution:
198 - create siteconfig on install to store positions of the shared data
201 - graph style + data reorganization
202 - modularization of the graph styles by separating data handling and drawing tasks
203 - several graph styles can now be combined together
204 - graph data can internally now combine different data sources
205 (by that, some nasty side effects could have been removed)
206 - enum -> num renaming
207 - allow for horizontally and vertically centered graph key alignment and a key background
208 - fix bug that graph was not finished automatically when a bbox was specified
209 manually (reported by David Barton)
211 - pathel -> pathitem, etc. renaming
212 - methods accepting a parameter value / arc length now also allow the user to
213 pass a tuple (subpath, param) / (subpath, arclen)
214 - normpath constructor no longer accepts a path or normpath as argument but only a list
215 of normsubpaths. Use the new normpath method of the path instead to construct a normpath
217 - normsubpath can now deal with short (i.e. shorter than epsilon) segments correctly
218 - the intersect and split methods of normpath and normsubpath have been completely rewritten and
219 now take the accuracy epsilon correctly into account. Note that for a closed subpath the
220 split function now returns the segment containing the closing point as first element
221 in the result list (before, it was returned as last element).
222 - normsubpathitems and normsubpath now implement much more methods also provided by
223 path and normpath instances
224 - normpath.append no longer accepts pathitems but only normsubpaths
225 - deformer module: new
226 - moved cycloid and smoothed from deco into deformer
228 - handle "BoundingBox: (atend)" (cf. bug #945621 reported by Jim Boyle)
229 - kpsearch option to search for file using the kpathsea library (contributed by Michael Gruber)
231 - PSCmd and PSOp are now joined in a new class canvasitem
233 - decorated path no longer allows modification of its path
234 - new method excluderange which allows to remove certain parameter ranges from the stroked path
235 - additional canvas provided by decorated path is now called ornaments
236 - constriction=None now indicates an arrowhead without constriction
238 - trafos are now deformers
240 - a bunch of bargraph examples have been added
245 - fix errorbar range adjustment
246 - fix empty tick lists bug (reported by Marko Vendelin, cf. bug #977323)
247 - graph/style module:
248 - symbolline drawing order in graph key (cf. bug #990687)
250 - access to builtin list (reported by Marcus Mendenhall, cf. bug #1042458)
255 - fix drawing with background
256 - fix insertion of a zero length path when the whole line is outside
257 the valid axis range (reported by Marko Vendelin)
259 - include source for faq and manual
260 - distribute the pdf instead of postscript (manual, faq, examples)
265 - fixed title=None + graph key issue reported by Gabriel Vasseur
266 - graph.axis.painter.plain -> graph.axis.painter.regular
267 (as it was in parts of the documentation already)
268 - changeable-gridattrs-become-None-bug fixed
269 - graph style cutting outside lines (double-)fixed
273 - fixes missing install of the graph and axis directories introduced in 0.6
274 - some minor updates to the faq
279 - reorganisation of the graph structure finished (there might be some
280 small pending issues, but the basic restructuring is done with this release):
281 - graph splitted into several modules in pyx/graph and pyx/graph/axis
282 - painters are using the new attribute scheme including changeable
284 - graph styles rewrite
286 - axis zeropath feature has been removed
287 - mergelabels removed; linpart doesn't have a label argument anymore
288 - names and texts removed from baraxis
289 - iteration on graph style, when it is used several times in the same graph
290 - symbols + lines -> symbollines; symbols do not allow setting lineattrs,
291 and lines not symbolattrs
292 - manual line clipping (do not include unneeded line segments when the
293 axis range is set manually etc.)
294 - automatic file key titles
295 - graph.data now also includes the old data module
296 - data.list adds (by default) a line number like data.file
297 (thus regular columns are counted from 1)
299 - added new pathels multilineto_pt and multicurveto which allows to specify
300 a list of points and can thus be much more efficient
301 - internal methods return coordinates in pts
302 - arclentoparam returns only parameters not total length
303 - added path.arclength_pt, path.at_pt, path.begin_pt, path.end_pt (and
304 correspondingly for normpath)
305 - complete refactoring of the normpath class: normpaths now consist of
306 normsubpaths which themselves consist of normlines and normcurves This is
307 much more convenient for any routines working with normpaths.
308 - reversing of closed sub paths does not change the first point of the sub
310 - renamed: arclength -> arclen
311 - renamed: lentopar -> arclentoparam
312 - renamed: glue -> joined
313 - normpath now supports join, the in-place version of joined
314 - path and normpath method raise exception instead of returning None
315 when parameter is out of range
316 - the accuracy epsilon can now only be specified in normpath and normsubpath
317 constructor and no longer in arguments of path and normpath methods
318 - negative parameters are no longer supported in path and normpath methods
319 - path and normpath methods which accept parameter value param now
320 alternatively accept an arc length
324 - arrow heads are no longer stroked (as suggested by Magnus Lie Hetland)
326 - writeEPSfile deprecates writetofile
327 - internally, write methods are renamed in outputPS
328 - canvas constructor no longer accepts variable argument list but
329 expects a list of attrs as first argument (defaulting to []) and
330 a texrunner as second argument (defaulting to text.defaulttexrunner)
331 - set, draw, stroke and fill no longer return self, i.e., the canvas, but None
333 - added inplace add (__iadd__), enlarge and transform methods
334 - callers use inplace add where possible now (yielding a considerable
336 - "undefined" corners of bounding boxes are no longer supported which makes
337 the bounding box operations much more efficient.
339 - renamed _xxx -> xxx_pt
341 - removed showbbox argument of epsfile class
343 - default handling of texmessages as in the new attribute scheme
344 - multiple insert bug fixed
345 - made left, right, width, height, depth information available (x length
346 not taking into account box transformations)
347 - ignore tex message "Please type a command or say `\\end'"
348 - added textboxes that are sequentially filled (experimental)
350 - mandel.py (contributed by Stephen Phillips)
352 - length comparision (David Beach)
356 - switched to the new parser using pythons parser module
358 - removed, it all lives in the graph.data module now, while before it
359 was splitted into two separate modules
361 - not imported by default anymore
362 - obsolete warning when importing this module
366 - include missing c-files for optional extension modules
368 - fix unpaired BeginProcSet/EndProcSet in font enconding
371 - setup.py and distribution:
372 - allow customization of the extension modules built (via setup.cfg)
373 - disable building pykpathsea module by default
374 - more detailed description of install process in INSTALL
375 - provide more information and pointers to other files in README
376 - include example data files in distribution (suggested by Andrea Riciputi)
377 - force dvips to write ps files instead of printing them (suggested by Otto Tronarp)
378 - includ pyxfaq.pdf in distribution
380 - improved is-readable test for lfs files and pyx.def file
381 - explicitly quit (La)TeX in cleantmp (helps when quitting with <Ctrl>C)
382 - showwaitfortex implemented following a suggestion by Fernando Perez
383 (waitfortex is increased to 60 seconds now)
384 - support of TeX extension --ipc for reading dvi results while TeX keeps running
385 - configurable font mapping files (via pyxrc or parameter of the texrunner constructor)
386 - markers to get access to positions within TeX expressions
387 - fix: allow for e-tex in texmessage.start (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
388 - fix: print warning at syntax errors in font mapping file and continue (cf. bug #795271)
389 - remove limitation on number of fonts in dvi file
390 - added native virtual font support
391 - dvicopy support not needed anymore (it is still available, but obsolete and
392 removed from the documentation)
393 - do not include too many glyphs in the eps file
394 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
395 - dvifile module (NEW):
396 - separated from the text module
397 - dvifile class returns standard pyx canvas instances on readpage
399 - removed manualpart and partitioners mix keyword
400 - results of the splitting at "=" in graph.function were not stripped
401 - skip title=None in key (cf. bug #821284), properly align a single key entry
402 - another (the last?!) axis redesign: axispos -> class of its own
403 - some axispos name have changed slightly (zeroline -> zeropath etc.)
404 - tick/data-vmin/vmax removed
407 - minor enhancements in exponentionaltexter
408 - axes alongs paths including a set of examples
409 - mixing a partitioner and manual ticks by two distinct keyword arguments now
410 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
411 - part -> parter renaming
413 - stroke, fill, draw, set and insert do no longer accept variable length argument lists but
414 an attribute list as last argument
415 - stroke and fill now support trafos (TODO: documentation)
416 - uppercase version of a4, a3, ... paperformats
418 - new module for loading PyX configuration information
420 - automatically import main modules into pyx namespace as suggested by Fernando
423 - check for sorting of parameter list passed to path.split method
424 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
426 - contains decoratedpath and decorators from canvas module
427 - all predefined decorators are instances now (deco.stroked is thus ok) and
428 attributes have to be passed explicitely, e.g., deco.earrow.small(attrs=color.rgb.red)
429 and deco.stroked([color.rgb.blue])
430 - style module (NEW):
431 - contains all line- and fillstyles which formerly had been defined in the canvas module
432 - dash now supports relative dash lengths (as suggested by Otto Tronarp)
434 - fixed incorrect handling of - (for instance -x**2 was not negative)
436 - contents have been moved to the (obsolete) tex module, which was the only user anyhow, and
437 the module itself was removed
439 - new fallback solution in pure python
440 - bugfix: pyxadapt.h needs to open files binary under Windows (reported by Gary Pajer)
442 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
444 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
448 - "in" to "inch" in paperformats
450 - fix pyx.def hack occuring whenever \ProcessOptions* was used by a package
452 - implement different file formats for Python version of module
454 - python fallback solution should behave the same way as c extension module (closes SF bug #799182 reported
455 by Marcus Mendenhall)
457 - added "connector" to __all__
461 - separate texter out of the axispainter
462 - axis/partitioner/texter/painter/axispos redesign & interfaces
463 - tick.text is renamed to tick.label
464 - ticks and labels are renamed to tickpos/tickdist and labelpos/labeldist in partitioning
465 - ticks can be used in the part to mix a partitioner with some manual ticks
466 -> manualpart and the mix technique is not needed anymore
467 (both things are still available and working, but they will be removed in the future)
468 - _ensurefrac is implemented inside the frac constructor now; initialization is possible by:
469 - a (enum, denom) tuple now (previously there were two arguments)
470 - a string (as before via _ensurefrac)
471 - exponential strings are allowed as well (e.g. "1e10" etc.)
472 - a float (precision is determined by floatprecision -- the number of decimal places)
477 - reset() method for the texrunner
478 - automatic restart of a TeX instance with the same preamble (preamble changes are not possible)
479 - texmessage.loadfd for accepting font description loading
480 - don't bail out on width_index == 0, but mark character invalid instead
482 - support for specials; pyxgraphics flag
483 - support psfonts.map: font names, font encodings
484 - bugfix \def\ProcessPyXBox -> \long\def\ProcessPyXBox
485 - improved lfs handling
487 - full documentation via doc strings
489 - some preliminary version
491 - multiple radii (up to two per point) and softnesses
492 - ensurecenter added --- do we always force the creation of a center?
494 - lentopar methods added including some tests
496 - new parameter bbox allows to override the bounding box of the eps file
500 - derive TFMError and DVIError correctly from exceptions.Exception
501 - close files and pipes, if they are no longer used (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
502 - remove DeprecationWarning in Python 2.3 (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
504 - correct rounding algorithm (Michael Schindler)
506 - refer to the graphs texrunner instead of the defaulttexrunner (cf. #728209)
507 - rounding towards zero bugfix in autolinpart
508 - log axis range rating bugfix
510 - addarg bugs (#738724)
512 - fix mixing up of height and width in scale calculation
513 - and various other fixer here and there
517 - fix bug in dvi rule code where width was height
518 - fix preamble attribute checking bug
519 - fix texmessage.load pattern search instead of pattern match bug
520 - renamed vbox to parbox (was done in 0.3 partially only)
522 - allow for tuples in arguments of the data class
523 - convenience: exchanged order of named parameters in data.data
525 - convenience: allow for part=None in _axis (base of linaxis and logaxis)
527 - added a latex example (requested)
528 - added a attributechange example (requested)
529 - added back the integral example (requested; prior PyX 0.3 it was part of the user manual)
530 - small change in vector example (allow for the access to the texrunner)
531 - examples included in source distribution
533 - correct arrow template calculation for very short paths
537 - new easy to use example generation (will hopefully lead to nice examples)
539 - new module for handling of convex polygons (taken out of the graph module)
541 - new module containing a collection of helper functions (taken out of the graph module)
542 - moved the attrlist into helper -- as plain functions; attrlist becomes obsolete
544 - new module: a new and preferable integration of TeX/LaTeX
546 - strip glyphs from pfa/pfb-fonts
547 - there is a C implementation taken from pdftex
548 - fallback solution via an external program (pfb2pfa)
550 - (partial) C binding to libkpathsea
551 - fallback solution via an external program (kpsewhich)
553 - removed some code duplication (various axis painters)
554 - use text module instead of the obsolete tex module
555 - allow for tailing zeros of automatic generated labels
556 - allow for missing data in bar graphs -> skipmissing parameter
557 - remove the support for variables given as keyword arguments in data constructor
558 - use context instead of extern for extern variables and functions
559 - graph keys; titles in data/function/etc.
561 - new classes for visual and width lengths, aliases for user length (u_pt = pt)
562 - all length classes have now by default a quantifier 1 (instead of 0), such that,
563 for instance, 5*unit.t_cm() == unit.t_cm(5)
564 - default_unit now has to be set via unit.set. For instance: unit.set(defaultunit="m").
565 - convert_to is now an internal function, which moreover does not longer accept tuples or lists
567 - new class _bbox (the former bbox) which accepts points in the constructor. This is used
568 for internal purposes.
569 - the bbox constructor now accepts user lengths in the constructor.
570 - new methods height, width, top, bottom, left, right
571 - ll & ur ???, what about ul and lr -> ugly!
572 - enlarge (was enhance) now allows selective enlargement to the left, bottom, right and top
573 - output HiResBoundingBox
574 - never reduce bbox upon output
576 - new constructor signature, more in line with rest of PyX:
577 epsfile(x, y, filename, **additional_args)
579 - removed additional column support in addcolumn; removed _addcolumn
580 - line reduction for datafile like the every parameter in gnuplot
582 - new way of PS prolog generation that writes only necessary parts
583 - added support for patterns
584 - canvas.insert() now supports arguments
585 - bbox of canvas can be specified in writetofile command explicitely
586 - writetofile does not return self anymore
587 - arrow template now uses intersection with circle to get size right
588 (as per a suggestion by Michael Schindler)
591 - changed the handling of extern functions and all variables
593 - gradient renamed to palette
595 - problem with sizefile on windows (tex module)
596 - allow for strings in graphxy's width and height; allow for width only (graph module)
597 - disable rating for labelattrs equals None (graph module)
598 - defaultstyle selection, when a list of data is provided to the plot function (graph module)
599 - traverse when adding functions as arguments of operators (mathtree module)
600 - allow for extern functions in addcolumn (data module)
601 - just one common place for the version number
602 - fix incorrect exception name MathError (path module)
603 - prevent double return of intersections for closed sub paths
608 - allow division of length by numbers
610 - new transformation: slant
611 - renamed all trafo methods to use the participle (i.e translate->translated)
612 - the name of all trafo subclasses are verbs (i.e. translation->translate)
614 - mark class renamed to symbol
615 - (text-)box distance measurement
616 - moved axis partitioning to axis and axis painter
617 - automatic axis partitioning (now officially: general cleanup, distance measurement, documentation)
619 - baraxis, baraxispainter, and bar style
621 - previously named datafile module
622 - class "_datafile" renamed to class "data"
623 - class sectionfile added
626 - extern variables and functions (support in graph.function, graph.paramfunction and data.data)
629 - deferred to Version 0.3
630 - running TeX "on the fly" is basically implemented
632 - transformation bug (#624068, trafo module)
633 - canvas transformations (canvas module???)
634 - textbox alignment (graph module)
635 - return linewidth upon calculation with linewidths (unit module)
636 - allow column number variables with several digits
638 - british and american spellings (color module, graph module)
639 - small logo modifications