3 - using bytes in image type conversions
5 - no end of pages test when no dvi is created at all
8 - Requires at least Python 3.2
9 - The gallery has been moved to https://sourceforge.net/p/pyx/gallery/, which
10 is a wiki. Contributions are welcome.
12 - cygwin LaTeX with windows python patch (thanks to Sybren A. Stüvel)
14 - fix numerical instability of line clippings
15 - remove errorbar range checks, as they fail on a reverse axis, which is
16 correct (reported by Néstor Espinoza)
18 - fix internal name clash when generating a normpath from an empty path
19 (reported by Brendon Higgins)
21 - several stability and precision improvements and bugfixes
22 - cusp removal at normpath construction (and getting rid of invalid
23 results for curvature, rotation, tangent, and trafo methods)
24 - remove curveradius methods as they are invalid for straigt paths
26 - apply text trafos to each character in curvedtext (reported by Hans L)
27 - properly apply all textattrs in curvedtext (for example colors or scalings)
29 - layer method takes layer names above or below (instead of an instance),
30 also reorders layer accordingly when layer is already existing
31 - remove the before and after arguments of insert
32 - handle trafo and clip separately in constructor and write methods
33 - allow for one clipping instance only
34 - optimize graphics state stack usage
36 - change special handling for transformations and colors to use subcanvases
37 - apply transformations to markers
38 - trafos and styles are no longer canvasitems
40 - fillrules are now fillstyles and handled within the PS/PDF context
43 - major code reorganization and documentation revision (now using autodoc)
44 - font/afmfile module:
45 - parse more AFM files, also some with common inconsistencies (thanks to
46 Markus Schwienbacher for reporting these issues)
48 - functiongradient has been split into functiongradient_rgb, etc. and
49 the function parameters are now passed directly
50 - lineargradient has been removed for factory functions lineargradient_rgb, etc.
51 that provide linear gradients between colors of a particular color model
53 - fix jpegimage for progressive jpeg files (thanks to Michael Schindler)
55 - use APPDATA environment variable to locate the pyxrc on windows
56 - tex, latex, kpsewhich, and locate executables are now customizable in the pyxrc
57 - on the package level:
58 - add pyxinfo to enable output of some useful information
60 - PyX theme and various sphinx tweaks
64 - fix drawing and clipping of gradient style
68 - insert method now returns canvas wrapping item if attrs are given
69 - insert method allows specification of position where item is inserted
70 by before and after arguments
71 - new layer method allows creation of separated drawing layers for
72 grouping of drawing operations
73 - writeXXXfile methods now use "page_" and "write_" prefixes for passing
74 the keyword arguments to the page constructor and write method
75 - pipeGS now returns a file handle instead of writing to a file or to stdout
76 - the new method writeGSfile restores the previous pipeGS functionality
77 - support rendering as png for use in IPython notebooks (as suggested by
80 - writeXXXfile methods now support writing to stdout when filename is set
82 - type 1 font modules:
83 - allow font slanting for T1builtinfont instances
84 - improve stripped font compatibility
85 - remove UniqueID lookup from embedded fonts in PostScript output (fixes
86 missing glyph issue with dvips and certain fonts)
87 - allow Type1 font usage without TeX and without AFM font metric
88 - add support for pfm font matrices
90 - fix race condition while generating bitmap for PDF inclusion
91 - fix file opening for bbox reading when using filelocator (reported by
94 - fix text mode line ending issue for MS Windows
96 - fix subprocess call on MS Windows (closefds not functional not also
98 - fix pyxgraphics functionality because at least some versions of graphics
99 and friends seem to expect the file extension .def for the driver files
100 (thanks to Michael J Gruber)
102 - decorator to put text along a path; based on a patch by Michael J Gruber
104 - fix for MS Windows: open virtual font files in binary mode
107 - uses new canvas layers to stack graph components (fixing bug #1518414,
108 reported by Dominic Ford)
109 - add a flipped option to graphxy to exchange x and y coordinates
110 - add a 1d graph "graphx" (use case: convert a value to a color)
111 - add hiddenaxes layer to the 3d graph
112 - add linkedaxes for the xy-plane in 3d like in 2d (works now properly due
113 to the hiddenaxes feature)
116 - add gradient style to convert a value to a color using a 1d graph
117 - add a usenames dictionary to the pos style (like rangepos had it already)
119 - add a join data provide which adds concatenates several data sources
121 - divisor was not properly taken into account in tick handling (axis
122 range extension and range rating)
123 - added the metapost module:
124 - create smooth paths from a series of points
126 - new fundamental constructor based on arbitrary affine transformations
127 - add ASCIIHexDecode end marker
129 - add rgbgradient and cmykgradient to force color space
131 - add ASCIIHexDecode end marker
133 - upgrade PyX project page to the Allura platform
138 - fix pipeGS (adding support for writing using pycompat.popen)
140 - arrow decorator: proper sign of constriction length for positioning
144 - increase designsize deviation to 4 (needs some further investigation)
146 - fixes due to the dvi and font restructuring
148 - fix build process for extension modules
149 - fix download url to allow for easy_install (hopefully)
151 - converted to sphinx
155 - font and dvi modules:
156 - major reorganization
157 - TeX mapping files are a property of the writer now
158 By that the pdfwriter now uses pdftex.map instead of psfonts.map
159 (It's also possible to pass a fontmap to a texrunners text method to use
160 different mappings within a single output file)
161 - support for font matrices (afm) for Type1 fonts
162 (using fonts without a metrics is still supported, but properly issues
164 - interface for basic TeX-less text output
165 - new PS and PDF writer options: strip_fonts, text_as_path, mesh_as_bitmap,
166 mesh_as_bitmap_resolution
167 - fix for commented out UniqueID
168 - fix rounding of font sizes
169 - fix scaling of VF position increments
170 - new filelocator module
172 - bar style on graphxyz (single datasets only)
174 - fix position of z4 axis
175 - set correct errorname for z axis (thanks to Axel Freyn)
176 - fix wrong y value usage instead of z value in pos methods
177 - fix unused color range settings in surface style (thanks to Michael J Gruber)
178 - fallbackrange for axes with vanishing range
179 - dokeyitem method (to be called with a plotitem) to alter the key order
180 - doplot() was renamed to doplotitem(), dodata() was renamed to doplot()
181 to have similar naming conventions like for the graph key
182 - axis module: do not divide by None for data.min and/or data.max being None (see patch #2833369)
184 - properly rotate axis titles when ticks are not othorgonal
185 to the axis (reported by Christian Delfosse)
186 - correct namedirection in bar axis painter (reported by rhunger, bug #2028032)
187 - graph.style.arrow: decorator is an parameter of the constructor now
188 (thanks to Axel Freyn)
189 - remove ticks with unset ticklevel and labellevel to prevent rating failures
190 (thanks to Brendon Higgins)
191 - canvas and document modules:
192 - auto-guess output filename from the script filename
193 - add ciecolor flag and input type to the pipeGS method of canvas
195 - new config options for psfontmaps and pdffontmaps
196 - new config option for formatting of Python warnings
197 - new config section for new filelocator module
199 - fix two bugs in the read pipe of the texrunner (thanks to
200 Laurence Tratt and Eric Faurot)
201 - fix "<" token handling in mapping file parser (thanks to Matthew West)
202 - fix start message parse error in MiKTeX (thanks to Wojciech Jaskowski)
203 - fix rigid aux file checking (thanks to Clayton E. Myers)
204 - use subprocess module if available
205 - proper error messages when TeX is stopped due to unrecoverable error
207 - implement style.fillrule
209 - added an explicit hatch pattern as an alternative for real postscript patterns
210 - arrow decorator: take into account constriction length when arrow pos < 1
212 - add support for transparent bitmaps (in postscript stencil masking only)
213 - path and normpath modules:
214 - remove incorrect zero length line in PDF output for each first moveto
215 path element (thanks to Michael J Gruber)
216 - raise correct normpath exception (thanks to Axel Freyn)
218 - an ugly way to import EPS in PDF using a bitmap (requires PIL)
224 - graphxyz for 3d graphs with parallel and central projection
225 - doplot method (to be called with a plotitem) to alter the plotitem order etc.
227 - new surface style for 3d graphs (colored surfaces are functional
228 (and useful!) for 2d graphs as well)
229 - new grid style for 3d graphs
231 - optional textdx/textdy columns to the text style added
232 - arrowpos parameter to the arrow style added
233 - bugfix: fromvalue axis range adjustment in histogram style
234 - bugfix: axis range adjustment in range style
236 - painter: don't insert axis title twice (thanks to Tim Gray for reporting this problem)
237 - parter: extend the logarithmic parter to calculate automatic partitions for huge ranges
238 (TODO: documentation of the new autoexponent parameter) (suggested by Dominic Ford)
239 - fix: range rating was not taken into account due in the 0.9 release
241 - list class was renamed to points; deprecation warning added
242 for instance creation, but inheritance from list failes
245 - internal helper module for efficient handling of triangular colored meshs
247 - renamed: palette->gradient, functionpalette->functiongradient, linearpalette->lineargradient
248 - new class palette representing a discrete ordered list of colors
249 - support transparency for filling/stroking in pdf separately
250 - transparency support for postscript as available by means of a proprietary
251 ghostscript extension (for ps2pdf)
252 - renamed method: tostring8bit -> to8bitstring (bug #2932888)
254 - add multichangeattr to perform a select on different changeable attributes
255 depending on the selects total number
258 - add missing glyph traversal in t1seacs updatepath
260 - support zero-length normsubpaths
262 - don't change order of attrs passed to canvas constructor in place
263 - added __truediv__ methods according to PEP 238
267 - most important changes (to be included in the release notes):
268 - mathtree removal (warning about integer division)
269 - barpos style does not build tuples for nestedbar axes automatically
270 - new deformers for path manipulation (for smoothing, shifting, ... paths)
272 - new framework for font handling
273 - own implementation of type1 font stripping (old pdftex code fragments removed)
274 - complete type1 font command representation and glyph path extraction from font programs
275 - t1code extension module (C version of de-/encoding routines used in Type 1 font files)
279 - mathtree removal: more flexibility due to true python expressions
280 - default style instantiation bug (reported by Gregory Novak)
282 - automatic subaxis tuple creation removed in barpos (create tuples
283 in expressions now; subnames argument removed since it became pointless;
284 adujstaxis became independend from selectstyle for all styles now)
285 - remove multiple painting of frompath in histogram and barpos styles
286 - fix missing attribute select when using a bar style once only (reported by Alan Isaac)
287 - fix histograms for negative y-coordinates (reported by Dominic Ford, bug #1492548)
288 - fix histogram to stroke lines to the baseline for steps=0 when two subsequent values are equal
289 - add key method for histogram style (reported by Hagemann, bug #1371554)
290 - implement a changebar style
291 - graph, axis and style module:
292 - support for mutual linking of axes between graphs
293 - new domethods dependency handling
294 - separate axis range calculation from dolayout
295 - axis.parter module:
296 - linear and logarthmic partitioners always need lists now
297 (as it was documented all the time; renamed tickdist/labeldist
298 to tickdists/labeldists; renamed tickpos/labelpos to
299 tickpreexps/labelpreexps)
301 - patch to tickpos and vtickpos (reported by Wojciech Smigaj, cf. patch #1286112)
302 - anchoredpathaxis added (suggested by Wojciech Smigaj)
303 - properly handle range rating on inversed axis (reported by Dominic Ford, cf. bug #1461513)
304 - invalidate axis partitions with a single label only by the distance rater
305 - fallback (with warning) to linear partitioner on a small logarithmics scale
307 - patch to allow for tickattrs=None (reported by Wojciech Smigaj, cf. patch #1286116)
309 - transparency support (PDF only)
310 - conversion between colorspaces
311 - nonlinear palettes added
312 - the former palette must now be initialized as linearpalette
313 - remove min and max arguments of palettes
315 - improve escapestring to handle all ascii characters
316 - correct vshift when text size is modified by a text.size instance
317 - recover from exceptions (reported by Alan Isaac)
318 - handle missing italic angle information in tfm for pdf output (reported by Brett Calcott)
319 - allow for .def and .fd files in texmessage.loaddef (new name for
320 texmessage.loadfd, which was restricted to .fd files)
322 - correct closepath (do not invalidate currentpoint but set it to the
323 beginning of the current subpath); structural rework of pathitems
324 - calculate real bboxes for Bezier curves
325 - fix intersection due to non-linear parametrization of bezier curves
326 - add rotate methods to path, normpath, normsubpath, and normsubpathitems
327 - add flushskippedline to normsubpath
328 - add arclentoparam to normsubpath and normsubpathitems
329 - path is no longer a canvasitem
330 - reduce number of parameters of outputPS/outputPDF methods (do not pass context and registry)
332 - contains normpath, normsubpath and normpathparam which have originally
333 been in the path module
334 - return "invalid" for certain path operations when the curve "speed" is
335 below a certain threshold
336 - normpath is no longer a canvasitem
337 - reduce number of parameters of outputPS/outputPDF methods (do not pass context and registry)
339 - rewritten smoothed to make use of the subnormpath facilities
340 - rewritten parallel for arbitrary paths
342 - add basic text decorator
343 - allow arrows at arbitrary positions along the path
345 - boxdists parameter need to be a list/tuple of two items now
346 - changed the orientation of the angle parameters
348 - renamed _apply to apply_pt
349 - introduce _epsilon for checking the singularity of a trafo
351 - use rectclip instead of clip to remove the clipping path from the
352 PostScript stack, which otherwise might create strange effects for
353 certain PostScript files (reported by Gert Ingold)
355 - silently ignore TrueType fonts in font mapping files (reported by Gabriel Vasseur)
357 - accept [ and ] as separators in encoding files (reported by Mojca Miklavec, cf. bug #1429524)
359 - remove registerPS/registerPDF in favour of registering resourcing during the outputPS/outputPDF run
360 - move bbox handling to registry
361 - rename outputPS/outputPDF -> processPS/processPDF
362 - remove set method of canvas
363 - add a pipeGS method to directly pass the PyX output to ghostscript
364 - allow file instances as parameter of the writeXXXfile methods (feature request #1419658 by Jason Pratt)
366 - allow file instances as parameter of the writeXXXfile methods (feature request #1419658 by Jason Pratt)
368 - make rellength the default for dash styles
370 - switched to subversion on 2006/03/09
374 - fix bug in postscript deco code for stroking only attributes
376 - fix multicurveto._normalized
377 - fix path.paramtoarclen and path.paramtoarclen_pt
378 - remove unused method-local function
379 - fix linestyle rellength in PostScript
380 - correction to the rounding problems in circles (reported by Uwe Fabricius)
384 - issue a warning when not using a stroke color for patterns
386 - postpone PDFfontdescriptor information, since it raises an error on certain
387 fonts even when PostScript output was requested (reported by Gert Ingold)
388 - remove spurious spaces when checking for empty texmessages
390 - caching in fallback to lower system call bottleneck
392 - add missing writePSfile wrapper
393 - add *args to writeEPSfile and writePDFfile wrappers
395 - writebbox option to write bbox information (disabled by default)
396 even when a paper format is specified (PS and PDF writers only)
397 - use arclen in spring example
399 - use pdf graphic files for pdf version of the manual
400 - use PyX to create tipa fallbacks for FAQ
401 - correct description regarding the manual in the README file
405 - changed requirements to python 2.1 or newer:
406 - nested scopes are needed without fallback solution by the path module
407 (at other places fallback solutions for missing nested scopes are missing as well)
408 - use warning module for warnings
410 - path parameters and argument handling
411 - the arct to arc/arcn conversion (needed for bbox calculation and for conversion into
412 normpath) has been fixed
413 - document module: new
414 - container classes for document and pages
415 - document.paperformat class (strings are deprecated)
417 - writeEPSfile wraps a canvas in a single page document and performs the output
421 - completely rewritten: support for fonts and patterns has been added
422 - pswriter module: new
423 - separate PS output from canvas
424 - new signature of outputPS methods: writer and context are passed as additional
427 - allow selection on zero range palette (reported by Francisco Borges, cf. bug #1116257)
428 - prolog module: removed due to code reorganisation
430 - modifications on __init__.py in graph and axis subdirectories to
431 make "from pyx.graph import *" working as expected
433 - addontop added to stackedbarpos
434 - column -> columnname renaming where appropriate
435 - histogram style added
437 - function needs explicit variable definition (implicit variable definition is deprecated)
438 - column names are inherited by data.data() except when copy=0;
439 unused columns are silently ignored now
440 - dynamic function data on a logarithmic axis uses isinstance check now
441 (although it removes the only (mis)use of axis.inverse, it is a
442 temporary solution only)
444 - extend graph keys to allow for several columns
445 - axis data handling refactoring:
446 - introcuded an axis positioner (module graph.axis.positioner)
447 - introduced anchoredaxis to make axis data and positioning local to a graph
448 - linkedaxis is a special version of anchoredaxis and is generic
449 (it uses the new linkpainter provided by an axis)
450 - unification of split and bar axes;
451 removed some black magic in baraxis in favor of a nestedbar axis
452 - x linked to x2 etc. is now possible
453 - axis.inverse was removed (the only place it was (mis)used was by a function)
455 - allow to transform axis after layout
456 - [xy]axisat arguments in the constructor to easily move [xy]-axes
457 to a position defined the orthogonal axis
458 - remove axispos (use the axis dictionary now, since it now contains
459 anchored axis instances and those have shortcuts for the axis positioner
462 - tfm->dvi conversion rounding bugfix
463 - fix parsing of empty strings ("") in fontmap files (reported by John Owens, bug #1218983)
465 - support for halign of boxes and content of boxes (see halign example)
466 - take units xscale into account in parbox
467 - messageparser for replaced fontsizes: Warning -> implemented by texmessage.fontwarning
468 - messageparser for size differences at the end: Warning not Exception -> implemented by texmessage.fontwarning
469 - messageparser for overfull/underfull vbox/hbox: Warning not Exception -> implemented by texmessage.boxwarning
470 - dvicopy flag removed
471 - allow argument of set to be None
472 - rename nomathmode and nophantom to clearmathmode and clearphantom
473 - texmessagepattern for easy creation of simple TeX message parsers
474 - allow long file names in file checking TeX message parsers
475 - no newline removal to not disturbe TeX messages when reporting errors
476 - reworked documentation to use the python documentation standards
478 - linewidth is no longer a unit.length subclass but expects a such as first argument
480 - correct EOL handling while reading DSC's (reported by Markus Meyer)
481 - pattern module: new
482 - moved canvas.pattern to its own module together with the new PDFpattern class
483 - add some default patterns: hatched and crosshatched
485 - improve the smoothing deformer
486 - add a parallel deformer
488 - the very old tex module finally got removed completely
490 - a simple converter from dvi to EPS/PS/PDF files (dviconvert.py) has been added
491 - a simple imagine to EPS/PS/PDF converter (imgconvert.py) has been added
492 - a simple dvitype.py has been added
493 - update address of FSF all over the place
498 - EPS header fixed (reported by Russell Lang, cf. bug #1065099)
500 - use CURDIR instead of PWD (reported by David M. Cooke, bug #1070285)
502 - support windows line endings (patch by Hans-Andreas Engel, cf. bug #1071160)
504 - line attributes handling fixed (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
505 - fix typos in predefined symbols (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
506 - cut column name list at the max. number of columns (reported by Arnd Baecker)
508 - add INDEX and README files to distribution
509 - new errorbar and julia example
511 - pdf snippets for tipa based phonetic transliterations
516 - new module for inclusion of bitmap images
518 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
519 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
521 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
522 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
523 - enlarge was misspelled as enlarged
524 - renamed _bbox -> bbox_pt
525 - new bbox method center, which returns the coordinates of the center
527 - enlarge and enlarged do no longer interprete unqualified lengths as
530 - unit.cm, unit.t_cm, etc. are no longer sub classes but instances
532 - never convert implicitly into visual/width, etc. lengths (this is more
533 about usage of the unit module in various other modules) (TODO: update
535 - support for string initialization removed
536 - support for initialisation with other length removed
537 - lengths can now be divided by other lengths (as suggested by Michael Gruber
538 and Magnus Lie Hetland)
540 - postpone reading of fontmap files until TeX/LaTeX is started
541 - sign of font number in dvifile (reported by Michael Gruber)
544 - added new classes page and document for multipage PostScript output
545 - apply deformers (instead of trafos) in draw method
547 - decrease interval for dotted and dash-dotted lines for better visual
549 - setup.py and distribution:
550 - create siteconfig on install to store positions of the shared data
553 - graph style + data reorganization
554 - modularization of the graph styles by separating data handling and drawing tasks
555 - several graph styles can now be combined together
556 - graph data can internally now combine different data sources
557 (by that, some nasty side effects could have been removed)
558 - enum -> num renaming
559 - allow for horizontally and vertically centered graph key alignment and a key background
560 - fix bug that graph was not finished automatically when a bbox was specified
561 manually (reported by David Barton)
563 - pathel -> pathitem, etc. renaming
564 - methods accepting a parameter value / arc length now also allow the user to
565 pass a tuple (subpath, param) / (subpath, arclen)
566 - normpath constructor no longer accepts a path or normpath as argument but only a list
567 of normsubpaths. Use the new normpath method of the path instead to construct a normpath
569 - normsubpath can now deal with short (i.e. shorter than epsilon) segments correctly
570 - the intersect and split methods of normpath and normsubpath have been completely rewritten and
571 now take the accuracy epsilon correctly into account. Note that for a closed subpath the
572 split function now returns the segment containing the closing point as first element
573 in the result list (before, it was returned as last element).
574 - normsubpathitems and normsubpath now implement much more methods also provided by
575 path and normpath instances
576 - normpath.append no longer accepts pathitems but only normsubpaths
577 - deformer module: new
578 - moved cycloid and smoothed from deco into deformer
580 - handle "BoundingBox: (atend)" (cf. bug #945621 reported by Jim Boyle)
581 - kpsearch option to search for file using the kpathsea library (contributed by Michael Gruber)
583 - PSCmd and PSOp are now joined in a new class canvasitem
585 - decorated path no longer allows modification of its path
586 - new method excluderange which allows to remove certain parameter ranges from the stroked path
587 - additional canvas provided by decorated path is now called ornaments
588 - constriction=None now indicates an arrowhead without constriction
590 - trafos are now deformers
592 - a bunch of bargraph examples have been added
597 - fix errorbar range adjustment
598 - fix empty tick lists bug (reported by Marko Vendelin, cf. bug #977323)
599 - graph/style module:
600 - symbolline drawing order in graph key (cf. bug #990687)
602 - access to builtin list (reported by Marcus Mendenhall, cf. bug #1042458)
607 - fix drawing with background
608 - fix insertion of a zero length path when the whole line is outside
609 the valid axis range (reported by Marko Vendelin)
611 - include source for faq and manual
612 - distribute the pdf instead of postscript (manual, faq, examples)
617 - fixed title=None + graph key issue reported by Gabriel Vasseur
618 - graph.axis.painter.plain -> graph.axis.painter.regular
619 (as it was in parts of the documentation already)
620 - changeable-gridattrs-become-None-bug fixed
621 - graph style cutting outside lines (double-)fixed
625 - fixes missing install of the graph and axis directories introduced in 0.6
626 - some minor updates to the faq
631 - reorganisation of the graph structure finished (there might be some
632 small pending issues, but the basic restructuring is done with this release):
633 - graph splitted into several modules in pyx/graph and pyx/graph/axis
634 - painters are using the new attribute scheme including changeable
636 - graph styles rewrite
638 - axis zeropath feature has been removed
639 - mergelabels removed; linpart doesn't have a label argument anymore
640 - names and texts removed from baraxis
641 - iteration on graph style, when it is used several times in the same graph
642 - symbols + lines -> symbollines; symbols do not allow setting lineattrs,
643 and lines not symbolattrs
644 - manual line clipping (do not include unneeded line segments when the
645 axis range is set manually etc.)
646 - automatic file key titles
647 - graph.data now also includes the old data module
648 - data.list adds (by default) a line number like data.file
649 (thus regular columns are counted from 1)
651 - added new pathels multilineto_pt and multicurveto which allows to specify
652 a list of points and can thus be much more efficient
653 - internal methods return coordinates in pts
654 - arclentoparam returns only parameters not total length
655 - added path.arclength_pt, path.at_pt, path.begin_pt, path.end_pt (and
656 correspondingly for normpath)
657 - complete refactoring of the normpath class: normpaths now consist of
658 normsubpaths which themselves consist of normlines and normcurves This is
659 much more convenient for any routines working with normpaths.
660 - reversing of closed sub paths does not change the first point of the sub
662 - renamed: arclength -> arclen
663 - renamed: lentopar -> arclentoparam
664 - renamed: glue -> joined
665 - normpath now supports join, the in-place version of joined
666 - path and normpath method raise exception instead of returning None
667 when parameter is out of range
668 - the accuracy epsilon can now only be specified in normpath and normsubpath
669 constructor and no longer in arguments of path and normpath methods
670 - negative parameters are no longer supported in path and normpath methods
671 - path and normpath methods which accept parameter value param now
672 alternatively accept an arc length
676 - arrow heads are no longer stroked (as suggested by Magnus Lie Hetland)
678 - writeEPSfile deprecates writetofile
679 - internally, write methods are renamed in outputPS
680 - canvas constructor no longer accepts variable argument list but
681 expects a list of attrs as first argument (defaulting to []) and
682 a texrunner as second argument (defaulting to text.defaulttexrunner)
683 - set, draw, stroke and fill no longer return self, i.e., the canvas, but None
685 - added inplace add (__iadd__), enlarge and transform methods
686 - callers use inplace add where possible now (yielding a considerable
688 - "undefined" corners of bounding boxes are no longer supported which makes
689 the bounding box operations much more efficient.
691 - renamed _xxx -> xxx_pt
693 - removed showbbox argument of epsfile class
695 - default handling of texmessages as in the new attribute scheme
696 - multiple insert bug fixed
697 - made left, right, width, height, depth information available (x length
698 not taking into account box transformations)
699 - ignore tex message "Please type a command or say `\\end'"
700 - added textboxes that are sequentially filled (experimental)
702 - mandel.py (contributed by Stephen Phillips)
704 - length comparision (David Beach)
708 - switched to the new parser using pythons parser module
710 - removed, it all lives in the graph.data module now, while before it
711 was splitted into two separate modules
713 - not imported by default anymore
714 - obsolete warning when importing this module
718 - include missing c-files for optional extension modules
720 - fix unpaired BeginProcSet/EndProcSet in font enconding
723 - setup.py and distribution:
724 - allow customization of the extension modules built (via setup.cfg)
725 - disable building pykpathsea module by default
726 - more detailed description of install process in INSTALL
727 - provide more information and pointers to other files in README
728 - include example data files in distribution (suggested by Andrea Riciputi)
729 - force dvips to write ps files instead of printing them (suggested by Otto Tronarp)
730 - includ pyxfaq.pdf in distribution
732 - improved is-readable test for lfs files and pyx.def file
733 - explicitly quit (La)TeX in cleantmp (helps when quitting with <Ctrl>C)
734 - showwaitfortex implemented following a suggestion by Fernando Perez
735 (waitfortex is increased to 60 seconds now)
736 - support of TeX extension --ipc for reading dvi results while TeX keeps running
737 - configurable font mapping files (via pyxrc or parameter of the texrunner constructor)
738 - markers to get access to positions within TeX expressions
739 - fix: allow for e-tex in texmessage.start (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
740 - fix: print warning at syntax errors in font mapping file and continue (cf. bug #795271)
741 - remove limitation on number of fonts in dvi file
742 - added native virtual font support
743 - dvicopy support not needed anymore (it is still available, but obsolete and
744 removed from the documentation)
745 - do not include too many glyphs in the eps file
746 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
747 - dvifile module (NEW):
748 - separated from the text module
749 - dvifile class returns standard pyx canvas instances on readpage
751 - removed manualpart and partitioners mix keyword
752 - results of the splitting at "=" in graph.function were not stripped
753 - skip title=None in key (cf. bug #821284), properly align a single key entry
754 - another (the last?!) axis redesign: axispos -> class of its own
755 - some axispos name have changed slightly (zeroline -> zeropath etc.)
756 - tick/data-vmin/vmax removed
759 - minor enhancements in exponentionaltexter
760 - axes alongs paths including a set of examples
761 - mixing a partitioner and manual ticks by two distinct keyword arguments now
762 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
763 - part -> parter renaming
765 - stroke, fill, draw, set and insert do no longer accept variable length argument lists but
766 an attribute list as last argument
767 - stroke and fill now support trafos (TODO: documentation)
768 - uppercase version of a4, a3, ... paperformats
770 - new module for loading PyX configuration information
772 - automatically import main modules into pyx namespace as suggested by Fernando
775 - check for sorting of parameter list passed to path.split method
776 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
778 - contains decoratedpath and decorators from canvas module
779 - all predefined decorators are instances now (deco.stroked is thus ok) and
780 attributes have to be passed explicitely, e.g., deco.earrow.small(attrs=color.rgb.red)
781 and deco.stroked([color.rgb.blue])
782 - style module (NEW):
783 - contains all line- and fillstyles which formerly had been defined in the canvas module
784 - dash now supports relative dash lengths (as suggested by Otto Tronarp)
786 - fixed incorrect handling of - (for instance -x**2 was not negative)
788 - contents have been moved to the (obsolete) tex module, which was the only user anyhow, and
789 the module itself was removed
791 - new fallback solution in pure python
792 - bugfix: pyxadapt.h needs to open files binary under Windows (reported by Gary Pajer)
794 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
796 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
800 - "in" to "inch" in paperformats
802 - fix pyx.def hack occuring whenever \ProcessOptions* was used by a package
804 - implement different file formats for Python version of module
806 - python fallback solution should behave the same way as c extension module (closes SF bug #799182 reported
807 by Marcus Mendenhall)
809 - added "connector" to __all__
813 - separate texter out of the axispainter
814 - axis/partitioner/texter/painter/axispos redesign & interfaces
815 - tick.text is renamed to tick.label
816 - ticks and labels are renamed to tickpos/tickdist and labelpos/labeldist in partitioning
817 - ticks can be used in the part to mix a partitioner with some manual ticks
818 -> manualpart and the mix technique is not needed anymore
819 (both things are still available and working, but they will be removed in the future)
820 - _ensurefrac is implemented inside the frac constructor now; initialization is possible by:
821 - a (enum, denom) tuple now (previously there were two arguments)
822 - a string (as before via _ensurefrac)
823 - exponential strings are allowed as well (e.g. "1e10" etc.)
824 - a float (precision is determined by floatprecision -- the number of decimal places)
829 - reset() method for the texrunner
830 - automatic restart of a TeX instance with the same preamble (preamble changes are not possible)
831 - texmessage.loadfd for accepting font description loading
832 - don't bail out on width_index == 0, but mark character invalid instead
834 - support for specials; pyxgraphics flag
835 - support psfonts.map: font names, font encodings
836 - bugfix \def\ProcessPyXBox -> \long\def\ProcessPyXBox
837 - improved lfs handling
839 - full documentation via doc strings
841 - some preliminary version
843 - multiple radii (up to two per point) and softnesses
844 - ensurecenter added --- do we always force the creation of a center?
846 - lentopar methods added including some tests
848 - new parameter bbox allows to override the bounding box of the eps file
852 - derive TFMError and DVIError correctly from exceptions.Exception
853 - close files and pipes, if they are no longer used (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
854 - remove DeprecationWarning in Python 2.3 (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
856 - correct rounding algorithm (Michael Schindler)
858 - refer to the graphs texrunner instead of the defaulttexrunner (cf. #728209)
859 - rounding towards zero bugfix in autolinpart
860 - log axis range rating bugfix
862 - addarg bugs (#738724)
864 - fix mixing up of height and width in scale calculation
865 - and various other fixer here and there
869 - fix bug in dvi rule code where width was height
870 - fix preamble attribute checking bug
871 - fix texmessage.load pattern search instead of pattern match bug
872 - renamed vbox to parbox (was done in 0.3 partially only)
874 - allow for tuples in arguments of the data class
875 - convenience: exchanged order of named parameters in data.data
877 - convenience: allow for part=None in _axis (base of linaxis and logaxis)
879 - added a latex example (requested)
880 - added a attributechange example (requested)
881 - added back the integral example (requested; prior PyX 0.3 it was part of the user manual)
882 - small change in vector example (allow for the access to the texrunner)
883 - examples included in source distribution
885 - correct arrow template calculation for very short paths
889 - new easy to use example generation (will hopefully lead to nice examples)
891 - new module for handling of convex polygons (taken out of the graph module)
893 - new module containing a collection of helper functions (taken out of the graph module)
894 - moved the attrlist into helper -- as plain functions; attrlist becomes obsolete
896 - new module: a new and preferable integration of TeX/LaTeX
898 - strip glyphs from pfa/pfb-fonts
899 - there is a C implementation taken from pdftex
900 - fallback solution via an external program (pfb2pfa)
902 - (partial) C binding to libkpathsea
903 - fallback solution via an external program (kpsewhich)
905 - removed some code duplication (various axis painters)
906 - use text module instead of the obsolete tex module
907 - allow for tailing zeros of automatic generated labels
908 - allow for missing data in bar graphs -> skipmissing parameter
909 - remove the support for variables given as keyword arguments in data constructor
910 - use context instead of extern for extern variables and functions
911 - graph keys; titles in data/function/etc.
913 - new classes for visual and width lengths, aliases for user length (u_pt = pt)
914 - all length classes have now by default a quantifier 1 (instead of 0), such that,
915 for instance, 5*unit.t_cm() == unit.t_cm(5)
916 - default_unit now has to be set via unit.set. For instance: unit.set(defaultunit="m").
917 - convert_to is now an internal function, which moreover does not longer accept tuples or lists
919 - new class _bbox (the former bbox) which accepts points in the constructor. This is used
920 for internal purposes.
921 - the bbox constructor now accepts user lengths in the constructor.
922 - new methods height, width, top, bottom, left, right
923 - ll & ur ???, what about ul and lr -> ugly!
924 - enlarge (was enhance) now allows selective enlargement to the left, bottom, right and top
925 - output HiResBoundingBox
926 - never reduce bbox upon output
928 - new constructor signature, more in line with rest of PyX:
929 epsfile(x, y, filename, **additional_args)
931 - removed additional column support in addcolumn; removed _addcolumn
932 - line reduction for datafile like the every parameter in gnuplot
934 - new way of PS prolog generation that writes only necessary parts
935 - added support for patterns
936 - canvas.insert() now supports arguments
937 - bbox of canvas can be specified in writetofile command explicitely
938 - writetofile does not return self anymore
939 - arrow template now uses intersection with circle to get size right
940 (as per a suggestion by Michael Schindler)
943 - changed the handling of extern functions and all variables
945 - gradient renamed to palette
947 - problem with sizefile on windows (tex module)
948 - allow for strings in graphxy's width and height; allow for width only (graph module)
949 - disable rating for labelattrs equals None (graph module)
950 - defaultstyle selection, when a list of data is provided to the plot function (graph module)
951 - traverse when adding functions as arguments of operators (mathtree module)
952 - allow for extern functions in addcolumn (data module)
953 - just one common place for the version number
954 - fix incorrect exception name MathError (path module)
955 - prevent double return of intersections for closed sub paths
960 - allow division of length by numbers
962 - new transformation: slant
963 - renamed all trafo methods to use the participle (i.e translate->translated)
964 - the name of all trafo subclasses are verbs (i.e. translation->translate)
966 - mark class renamed to symbol
967 - (text-)box distance measurement
968 - moved axis partitioning to axis and axis painter
969 - automatic axis partitioning (now officially: general cleanup, distance measurement, documentation)
971 - baraxis, baraxispainter, and bar style
973 - previously named datafile module
974 - class "_datafile" renamed to class "data"
975 - class sectionfile added
978 - extern variables and functions (support in graph.function, graph.paramfunction and data.data)
981 - deferred to Version 0.3
982 - running TeX "on the fly" is basically implemented
984 - transformation bug (#624068, trafo module)
985 - canvas transformations (canvas module???)
986 - textbox alignment (graph module)
987 - return linewidth upon calculation with linewidths (unit module)
988 - allow column number variables with several digits
990 - british and american spellings (color module, graph module)
991 - small logo modifications