3 - cygwin LaTeX with windows python patch (thanks to Sybren A. Stüvel)
5 - fix numerical instability of line clippings
7 - apply text trafos to each character in curvedtext (reported by Hans L)
8 - properly apply all textattrs in curvedtext (for example colors or scalings)
10 - insert method allows for a replacement of an existing item (might still
11 need some discussion; needs documentation, as well as the before and
12 after arguments introduced in 0.12)
13 - layer method takes layer names above or below (instead of an instance),
14 also reorders layer accordingly when layer is already existing
15 - remove the before and after arguments of insert
17 - change special handling for transformations and colors to use subcanvases
18 - trafos and styles are no longer canvasitems
22 - fix drawing and clipping of gradient style
26 - insert method now returns canvas wrapping item if attrs are given
27 - insert method allows specification of position where item is inserted
28 by before and after arguments
29 - new layer method allows creation of separated drawing layers for
30 grouping of drawing operations
31 - writeXXXfile methods now use "page_" and "write_" prefixes for passing
32 the keyword arguments to the page constructor and write method
33 - pipeGS now returns a file handle instead of writing to a file or to stdout
34 - the new method writeGSfile restores the previous pipeGS functionality
35 - support rendering as png for use in IPython notebooks (as suggested by
38 - writeXXXfile methods now support writing to stdout when filename is set
40 - type 1 font modules:
41 - allow font slanting for T1builtinfont instances
42 - improve stripped font compatibility
43 - remove UniqueID lookup from embedded fonts in PostScript output (fixes
44 missing glyph issue with dvips and certain fonts)
45 - allow Type1 font usage without TeX and without AFM font metric
46 - add support for pfm font matrices
48 - fix race condition while generating bitmap for PDF inclusion
49 - fix file opening for bbox reading when using filelocator (reported by
52 - fix text mode line ending issue for MS Windows
54 - fix subprocess call on MS Windows (closefds not functional not also
56 - fix pyxgraphics functionality because at least some versions of graphics
57 and friends seem to expect the file extension .def for the driver files
58 (thanks to Michael J Gruber)
60 - decorator to put text along a path; based on a patch by Michael J Gruber
62 - fix for MS Windows: open virtual font files in binary mode
65 - uses new canvas layers to stack graph components (fixing bug #1518414,
66 reported by Dominic Ford)
67 - add a flipped option to graphxy to exchange x and y coordinates
68 - add a 1d graph "graphx" (use case: convert a value to a color)
69 - add hiddenaxes layer to the 3d graph
70 - add linkedaxes for the xy-plane in 3d like in 2d (works now properly due
71 to the hiddenaxes feature)
74 - add gradient style to convert a value to a color using a 1d graph
75 - add a usenames dictionary to the pos style (like rangepos had it already)
77 - add a join data provide which adds concatenates several data sources
79 - divisor was not properly taken into account in tick handling (axis
80 range extension and range rating)
81 - added the metapost module:
82 - create smooth paths from a series of points
84 - new fundamental constructor based on arbitrary affine transformations
85 - add ASCIIHexDecode end marker
87 - add rgbgradient and cmykgradient to force color space
89 - add ASCIIHexDecode end marker
91 - upgrade PyX project page to the Allura platform
96 - fix pipeGS (adding support for writing using pycompat.popen)
98 - arrow decorator: proper sign of constriction length for positioning
102 - increase designsize deviation to 4 (needs some further investigation)
104 - fixes due to the dvi and font restructuring
106 - fix build process for extension modules
107 - fix download url to allow for easy_install (hopefully)
109 - converted to sphinx
113 - font and dvi modules:
114 - major reorganization
115 - TeX mapping files are a property of the writer now
116 By that the pdfwriter now uses pdftex.map instead of psfonts.map
117 (It's also possible to pass a fontmap to a texrunners text method to use
118 different mappings within a single output file)
119 - support for font matrices (afm) for Type1 fonts
120 (using fonts without a metrics is still supported, but properly issues
122 - interface for basic TeX-less text output
123 - new PS and PDF writer options: strip_fonts, text_as_path, mesh_as_bitmap,
124 mesh_as_bitmap_resolution
125 - fix for commented out UniqueID
126 - fix rounding of font sizes
127 - fix scaling of VF position increments
128 - new filelocator module
130 - bar style on graphxyz (single datasets only)
132 - fix position of z4 axis
133 - set correct errorname for z axis (thanks to Axel Freyn)
134 - fix wrong y value usage instead of z value in pos methods
135 - fix unused color range settings in surface style (thanks to Michael J Gruber)
136 - fallbackrange for axes with vanishing range
137 - dokeyitem method (to be called with a plotitem) to alter the key order
138 - doplot() was renamed to doplotitem(), dodata() was renamed to doplot()
139 to have similar naming conventions like for the graph key
140 - axis module: do not divide by None for data.min and/or data.max being None (see patch #2833369)
142 - properly rotate axis titles when ticks are not othorgonal
143 to the axis (reported by Christian Delfosse)
144 - correct namedirection in bar axis painter (reported by rhunger, bug #2028032)
145 - graph.style.arrow: decorator is an parameter of the constructor now
146 (thanks to Axel Freyn)
147 - remove ticks with unset ticklevel and labellevel to prevent rating failures
148 (thanks to Brendon Higgins)
149 - canvas and document modules:
150 - auto-guess output filename from the script filename
151 - add ciecolor flag and input type to the pipeGS method of canvas
153 - new config options for psfontmaps and pdffontmaps
154 - new config option for formatting of Python warnings
155 - new config section for new filelocator module
157 - fix two bugs in the read pipe of the texrunner (thanks to
158 Laurence Tratt and Eric Faurot)
159 - fix "<" token handling in mapping file parser (thanks to Matthew West)
160 - fix start message parse error in MiKTeX (thanks to Wojciech Jaskowski)
161 - fix rigid aux file checking (thanks to Clayton E. Myers)
162 - use subprocess module if available
163 - proper error messages when TeX is stopped due to unrecoverable error
165 - implement style.fillrule
167 - added an explicit hatch pattern as an alternative for real postscript patterns
168 - arrow decorator: take into account constriction length when arrow pos < 1
170 - add support for transparent bitmaps (in postscript stencil masking only)
171 - path and normpath modules:
172 - remove incorrect zero length line in PDF output for each first moveto
173 path element (thanks to Michael J Gruber)
174 - raise correct normpath exception (thanks to Axel Freyn)
176 - an ugly way to import EPS in PDF using a bitmap (requires PIL)
182 - graphxyz for 3d graphs with parallel and central projection
183 - doplot method (to be called with a plotitem) to alter the plotitem order etc.
185 - new surface style for 3d graphs (colored surfaces are functional
186 (and useful!) for 2d graphs as well)
187 - new grid style for 3d graphs
189 - optional textdx/textdy columns to the text style added
190 - arrowpos parameter to the arrow style added
191 - bugfix: fromvalue axis range adjustment in histogram style
192 - bugfix: axis range adjustment in range style
194 - painter: don't insert axis title twice (thanks to Tim Gray for reporting this problem)
195 - parter: extend the logarithmic parter to calculate automatic partitions for huge ranges
196 (TODO: documentation of the new autoexponent parameter) (suggested by Dominic Ford)
197 - fix: range rating was not taken into account due in the 0.9 release
199 - list class was renamed to points; deprecation warning added
200 for instance creation, but inheritance from list failes
203 - internal helper module for efficient handling of triangular colored meshs
205 - renamed: palette->gradient, functionpalette->functiongradient, linearpalette->lineargradient
206 - new class palette representing a discrete ordered list of colors
207 - support transparency for filling/stroking in pdf separately
208 - transparency support for postscript as available by means of a proprietary
209 ghostscript extension (for ps2pdf)
210 - renamed method: tostring8bit -> to8bitstring (bug #2932888)
212 - add multichangeattr to perform a select on different changeable attributes
213 depending on the selects total number
216 - add missing glyph traversal in t1seacs updatepath
218 - support zero-length normsubpaths
220 - don't change order of attrs passed to canvas constructor in place
221 - added __truediv__ methods according to PEP 238
225 - most important changes (to be included in the release notes):
226 - mathtree removal (warning about integer division)
227 - barpos style does not build tuples for nestedbar axes automatically
228 - new deformers for path manipulation (for smoothing, shifting, ... paths)
230 - new framework for font handling
231 - own implementation of type1 font stripping (old pdftex code fragments removed)
232 - complete type1 font command representation and glyph path extraction from font programs
233 - t1code extension module (C version of de-/encoding routines used in Type 1 font files)
237 - mathtree removal: more flexibility due to true python expressions
238 - default style instantiation bug (reported by Gregory Novak)
240 - automatic subaxis tuple creation removed in barpos (create tuples
241 in expressions now; subnames argument removed since it became pointless;
242 adujstaxis became independend from selectstyle for all styles now)
243 - remove multiple painting of frompath in histogram and barpos styles
244 - fix missing attribute select when using a bar style once only (reported by Alan Isaac)
245 - fix histograms for negative y-coordinates (reported by Dominic Ford, bug #1492548)
246 - fix histogram to stroke lines to the baseline for steps=0 when two subsequent values are equal
247 - add key method for histogram style (reported by Hagemann, bug #1371554)
248 - implement a changebar style
249 - graph, axis and style module:
250 - support for mutual linking of axes between graphs
251 - new domethods dependency handling
252 - separate axis range calculation from dolayout
253 - axis.parter module:
254 - linear and logarthmic partitioners always need lists now
255 (as it was documented all the time; renamed tickdist/labeldist
256 to tickdists/labeldists; renamed tickpos/labelpos to
257 tickpreexps/labelpreexps)
259 - patch to tickpos and vtickpos (reported by Wojciech Smigaj, cf. patch #1286112)
260 - anchoredpathaxis added (suggested by Wojciech Smigaj)
261 - properly handle range rating on inversed axis (reported by Dominic Ford, cf. bug #1461513)
262 - invalidate axis partitions with a single label only by the distance rater
263 - fallback (with warning) to linear partitioner on a small logarithmics scale
265 - patch to allow for tickattrs=None (reported by Wojciech Smigaj, cf. patch #1286116)
267 - transparency support (PDF only)
268 - conversion between colorspaces
269 - nonlinear palettes added
270 - the former palette must now be initialized as linearpalette
271 - remove min and max arguments of palettes
273 - improve escapestring to handle all ascii characters
274 - correct vshift when text size is modified by a text.size instance
275 - recover from exceptions (reported by Alan Isaac)
276 - handle missing italic angle information in tfm for pdf output (reported by Brett Calcott)
277 - allow for .def and .fd files in texmessage.loaddef (new name for
278 texmessage.loadfd, which was restricted to .fd files)
280 - correct closepath (do not invalidate currentpoint but set it to the
281 beginning of the current subpath); structural rework of pathitems
282 - calculate real bboxes for Bezier curves
283 - fix intersection due to non-linear parametrization of bezier curves
284 - add rotate methods to path, normpath, normsubpath, and normsubpathitems
285 - add flushskippedline to normsubpath
286 - add arclentoparam to normsubpath and normsubpathitems
287 - path is no longer a canvasitem
288 - reduce number of parameters of outputPS/outputPDF methods (do not pass context and registry)
290 - contains normpath, normsubpath and normpathparam which have originally
291 been in the path module
292 - return "invalid" for certain path operations when the curve "speed" is
293 below a certain threshold
294 - normpath is no longer a canvasitem
295 - reduce number of parameters of outputPS/outputPDF methods (do not pass context and registry)
297 - rewritten smoothed to make use of the subnormpath facilities
298 - rewritten parallel for arbitrary paths
300 - add basic text decorator
301 - allow arrows at arbitrary positions along the path
303 - boxdists parameter need to be a list/tuple of two items now
304 - changed the orientation of the angle parameters
306 - renamed _apply to apply_pt
307 - introduce _epsilon for checking the singularity of a trafo
309 - use rectclip instead of clip to remove the clipping path from the
310 PostScript stack, which otherwise might create strange effects for
311 certain PostScript files (reported by Gert Ingold)
313 - silently ignore TrueType fonts in font mapping files (reported by Gabriel Vasseur)
315 - accept [ and ] as separators in encoding files (reported by Mojca Miklavec, cf. bug #1429524)
317 - remove registerPS/registerPDF in favour of registering resourcing during the outputPS/outputPDF run
318 - move bbox handling to registry
319 - rename outputPS/outputPDF -> processPS/processPDF
320 - remove set method of canvas
321 - add a pipeGS method to directly pass the PyX output to ghostscript
322 - allow file instances as parameter of the writeXXXfile methods (feature request #1419658 by Jason Pratt)
324 - allow file instances as parameter of the writeXXXfile methods (feature request #1419658 by Jason Pratt)
326 - make rellength the default for dash styles
328 - switched to subversion on 2006/03/09
332 - fix bug in postscript deco code for stroking only attributes
334 - fix multicurveto._normalized
335 - fix path.paramtoarclen and path.paramtoarclen_pt
336 - remove unused method-local function
337 - fix linestyle rellength in PostScript
338 - correction to the rounding problems in circles (reported by Uwe Fabricius)
342 - issue a warning when not using a stroke color for patterns
344 - postpone PDFfontdescriptor information, since it raises an error on certain
345 fonts even when PostScript output was requested (reported by Gert Ingold)
346 - remove spurious spaces when checking for empty texmessages
348 - caching in fallback to lower system call bottleneck
350 - add missing writePSfile wrapper
351 - add *args to writeEPSfile and writePDFfile wrappers
353 - writebbox option to write bbox information (disabled by default)
354 even when a paper format is specified (PS and PDF writers only)
355 - use arclen in spring example
357 - use pdf graphic files for pdf version of the manual
358 - use PyX to create tipa fallbacks for FAQ
359 - correct description regarding the manual in the README file
363 - changed requirements to python 2.1 or newer:
364 - nested scopes are needed without fallback solution by the path module
365 (at other places fallback solutions for missing nested scopes are missing as well)
366 - use warning module for warnings
368 - path parameters and argument handling
369 - the arct to arc/arcn conversion (needed for bbox calculation and for conversion into
370 normpath) has been fixed
371 - document module: new
372 - container classes for document and pages
373 - document.paperformat class (strings are deprecated)
375 - writeEPSfile wraps a canvas in a single page document and performs the output
379 - completely rewritten: support for fonts and patterns has been added
380 - pswriter module: new
381 - separate PS output from canvas
382 - new signature of outputPS methods: writer and context are passed as additional
385 - allow selection on zero range palette (reported by Francisco Borges, cf. bug #1116257)
386 - prolog module: removed due to code reorganisation
388 - modifications on __init__.py in graph and axis subdirectories to
389 make "from pyx.graph import *" working as expected
391 - addontop added to stackedbarpos
392 - column -> columnname renaming where appropriate
393 - histogram style added
395 - function needs explicit variable definition (implicit variable definition is deprecated)
396 - column names are inherited by data.data() except when copy=0;
397 unused columns are silently ignored now
398 - dynamic function data on a logarithmic axis uses isinstance check now
399 (although it removes the only (mis)use of axis.inverse, it is a
400 temporary solution only)
402 - extend graph keys to allow for several columns
403 - axis data handling refactoring:
404 - introcuded an axis positioner (module graph.axis.positioner)
405 - introduced anchoredaxis to make axis data and positioning local to a graph
406 - linkedaxis is a special version of anchoredaxis and is generic
407 (it uses the new linkpainter provided by an axis)
408 - unification of split and bar axes;
409 removed some black magic in baraxis in favor of a nestedbar axis
410 - x linked to x2 etc. is now possible
411 - axis.inverse was removed (the only place it was (mis)used was by a function)
413 - allow to transform axis after layout
414 - [xy]axisat arguments in the constructor to easily move [xy]-axes
415 to a position defined the orthogonal axis
416 - remove axispos (use the axis dictionary now, since it now contains
417 anchored axis instances and those have shortcuts for the axis positioner
420 - tfm->dvi conversion rounding bugfix
421 - fix parsing of empty strings ("") in fontmap files (reported by John Owens, bug #1218983)
423 - support for halign of boxes and content of boxes (see halign example)
424 - take units xscale into account in parbox
425 - messageparser for replaced fontsizes: Warning -> implemented by texmessage.fontwarning
426 - messageparser for size differences at the end: Warning not Exception -> implemented by texmessage.fontwarning
427 - messageparser for overfull/underfull vbox/hbox: Warning not Exception -> implemented by texmessage.boxwarning
428 - dvicopy flag removed
429 - allow argument of set to be None
430 - rename nomathmode and nophantom to clearmathmode and clearphantom
431 - texmessagepattern for easy creation of simple TeX message parsers
432 - allow long file names in file checking TeX message parsers
433 - no newline removal to not disturbe TeX messages when reporting errors
434 - reworked documentation to use the python documentation standards
436 - linewidth is no longer a unit.length subclass but expects a such as first argument
438 - correct EOL handling while reading DSC's (reported by Markus Meyer)
439 - pattern module: new
440 - moved canvas.pattern to its own module together with the new PDFpattern class
441 - add some default patterns: hatched and crosshatched
443 - improve the smoothing deformer
444 - add a parallel deformer
446 - the very old tex module finally got removed completely
448 - a simple converter from dvi to EPS/PS/PDF files (dviconvert.py) has been added
449 - a simple imagine to EPS/PS/PDF converter (imgconvert.py) has been added
450 - a simple dvitype.py has been added
451 - update address of FSF all over the place
456 - EPS header fixed (reported by Russell Lang, cf. bug #1065099)
458 - use CURDIR instead of PWD (reported by David M. Cooke, bug #1070285)
460 - support windows line endings (patch by Hans-Andreas Engel, cf. bug #1071160)
462 - line attributes handling fixed (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
463 - fix typos in predefined symbols (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
464 - cut column name list at the max. number of columns (reported by Arnd Baecker)
466 - add INDEX and README files to distribution
467 - new errorbar and julia example
469 - pdf snippets for tipa based phonetic transliterations
474 - new module for inclusion of bitmap images
476 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
477 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
479 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
480 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
481 - enlarge was misspelled as enlarged
482 - renamed _bbox -> bbox_pt
483 - new bbox method center, which returns the coordinates of the center
485 - enlarge and enlarged do no longer interprete unqualified lengths as
488 - unit.cm, unit.t_cm, etc. are no longer sub classes but instances
490 - never convert implicitly into visual/width, etc. lengths (this is more
491 about usage of the unit module in various other modules) (TODO: update
493 - support for string initialization removed
494 - support for initialisation with other length removed
495 - lengths can now be divided by other lengths (as suggested by Michael Gruber
496 and Magnus Lie Hetland)
498 - postpone reading of fontmap files until TeX/LaTeX is started
499 - sign of font number in dvifile (reported by Michael Gruber)
502 - added new classes page and document for multipage PostScript output
503 - apply deformers (instead of trafos) in draw method
505 - decrease interval for dotted and dash-dotted lines for better visual
507 - setup.py and distribution:
508 - create siteconfig on install to store positions of the shared data
511 - graph style + data reorganization
512 - modularization of the graph styles by separating data handling and drawing tasks
513 - several graph styles can now be combined together
514 - graph data can internally now combine different data sources
515 (by that, some nasty side effects could have been removed)
516 - enum -> num renaming
517 - allow for horizontally and vertically centered graph key alignment and a key background
518 - fix bug that graph was not finished automatically when a bbox was specified
519 manually (reported by David Barton)
521 - pathel -> pathitem, etc. renaming
522 - methods accepting a parameter value / arc length now also allow the user to
523 pass a tuple (subpath, param) / (subpath, arclen)
524 - normpath constructor no longer accepts a path or normpath as argument but only a list
525 of normsubpaths. Use the new normpath method of the path instead to construct a normpath
527 - normsubpath can now deal with short (i.e. shorter than epsilon) segments correctly
528 - the intersect and split methods of normpath and normsubpath have been completely rewritten and
529 now take the accuracy epsilon correctly into account. Note that for a closed subpath the
530 split function now returns the segment containing the closing point as first element
531 in the result list (before, it was returned as last element).
532 - normsubpathitems and normsubpath now implement much more methods also provided by
533 path and normpath instances
534 - normpath.append no longer accepts pathitems but only normsubpaths
535 - deformer module: new
536 - moved cycloid and smoothed from deco into deformer
538 - handle "BoundingBox: (atend)" (cf. bug #945621 reported by Jim Boyle)
539 - kpsearch option to search for file using the kpathsea library (contributed by Michael Gruber)
541 - PSCmd and PSOp are now joined in a new class canvasitem
543 - decorated path no longer allows modification of its path
544 - new method excluderange which allows to remove certain parameter ranges from the stroked path
545 - additional canvas provided by decorated path is now called ornaments
546 - constriction=None now indicates an arrowhead without constriction
548 - trafos are now deformers
550 - a bunch of bargraph examples have been added
555 - fix errorbar range adjustment
556 - fix empty tick lists bug (reported by Marko Vendelin, cf. bug #977323)
557 - graph/style module:
558 - symbolline drawing order in graph key (cf. bug #990687)
560 - access to builtin list (reported by Marcus Mendenhall, cf. bug #1042458)
565 - fix drawing with background
566 - fix insertion of a zero length path when the whole line is outside
567 the valid axis range (reported by Marko Vendelin)
569 - include source for faq and manual
570 - distribute the pdf instead of postscript (manual, faq, examples)
575 - fixed title=None + graph key issue reported by Gabriel Vasseur
576 - graph.axis.painter.plain -> graph.axis.painter.regular
577 (as it was in parts of the documentation already)
578 - changeable-gridattrs-become-None-bug fixed
579 - graph style cutting outside lines (double-)fixed
583 - fixes missing install of the graph and axis directories introduced in 0.6
584 - some minor updates to the faq
589 - reorganisation of the graph structure finished (there might be some
590 small pending issues, but the basic restructuring is done with this release):
591 - graph splitted into several modules in pyx/graph and pyx/graph/axis
592 - painters are using the new attribute scheme including changeable
594 - graph styles rewrite
596 - axis zeropath feature has been removed
597 - mergelabels removed; linpart doesn't have a label argument anymore
598 - names and texts removed from baraxis
599 - iteration on graph style, when it is used several times in the same graph
600 - symbols + lines -> symbollines; symbols do not allow setting lineattrs,
601 and lines not symbolattrs
602 - manual line clipping (do not include unneeded line segments when the
603 axis range is set manually etc.)
604 - automatic file key titles
605 - graph.data now also includes the old data module
606 - data.list adds (by default) a line number like data.file
607 (thus regular columns are counted from 1)
609 - added new pathels multilineto_pt and multicurveto which allows to specify
610 a list of points and can thus be much more efficient
611 - internal methods return coordinates in pts
612 - arclentoparam returns only parameters not total length
613 - added path.arclength_pt, path.at_pt, path.begin_pt, path.end_pt (and
614 correspondingly for normpath)
615 - complete refactoring of the normpath class: normpaths now consist of
616 normsubpaths which themselves consist of normlines and normcurves This is
617 much more convenient for any routines working with normpaths.
618 - reversing of closed sub paths does not change the first point of the sub
620 - renamed: arclength -> arclen
621 - renamed: lentopar -> arclentoparam
622 - renamed: glue -> joined
623 - normpath now supports join, the in-place version of joined
624 - path and normpath method raise exception instead of returning None
625 when parameter is out of range
626 - the accuracy epsilon can now only be specified in normpath and normsubpath
627 constructor and no longer in arguments of path and normpath methods
628 - negative parameters are no longer supported in path and normpath methods
629 - path and normpath methods which accept parameter value param now
630 alternatively accept an arc length
634 - arrow heads are no longer stroked (as suggested by Magnus Lie Hetland)
636 - writeEPSfile deprecates writetofile
637 - internally, write methods are renamed in outputPS
638 - canvas constructor no longer accepts variable argument list but
639 expects a list of attrs as first argument (defaulting to []) and
640 a texrunner as second argument (defaulting to text.defaulttexrunner)
641 - set, draw, stroke and fill no longer return self, i.e., the canvas, but None
643 - added inplace add (__iadd__), enlarge and transform methods
644 - callers use inplace add where possible now (yielding a considerable
646 - "undefined" corners of bounding boxes are no longer supported which makes
647 the bounding box operations much more efficient.
649 - renamed _xxx -> xxx_pt
651 - removed showbbox argument of epsfile class
653 - default handling of texmessages as in the new attribute scheme
654 - multiple insert bug fixed
655 - made left, right, width, height, depth information available (x length
656 not taking into account box transformations)
657 - ignore tex message "Please type a command or say `\\end'"
658 - added textboxes that are sequentially filled (experimental)
660 - mandel.py (contributed by Stephen Phillips)
662 - length comparision (David Beach)
666 - switched to the new parser using pythons parser module
668 - removed, it all lives in the graph.data module now, while before it
669 was splitted into two separate modules
671 - not imported by default anymore
672 - obsolete warning when importing this module
676 - include missing c-files for optional extension modules
678 - fix unpaired BeginProcSet/EndProcSet in font enconding
681 - setup.py and distribution:
682 - allow customization of the extension modules built (via setup.cfg)
683 - disable building pykpathsea module by default
684 - more detailed description of install process in INSTALL
685 - provide more information and pointers to other files in README
686 - include example data files in distribution (suggested by Andrea Riciputi)
687 - force dvips to write ps files instead of printing them (suggested by Otto Tronarp)
688 - includ pyxfaq.pdf in distribution
690 - improved is-readable test for lfs files and pyx.def file
691 - explicitly quit (La)TeX in cleantmp (helps when quitting with <Ctrl>C)
692 - showwaitfortex implemented following a suggestion by Fernando Perez
693 (waitfortex is increased to 60 seconds now)
694 - support of TeX extension --ipc for reading dvi results while TeX keeps running
695 - configurable font mapping files (via pyxrc or parameter of the texrunner constructor)
696 - markers to get access to positions within TeX expressions
697 - fix: allow for e-tex in texmessage.start (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
698 - fix: print warning at syntax errors in font mapping file and continue (cf. bug #795271)
699 - remove limitation on number of fonts in dvi file
700 - added native virtual font support
701 - dvicopy support not needed anymore (it is still available, but obsolete and
702 removed from the documentation)
703 - do not include too many glyphs in the eps file
704 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
705 - dvifile module (NEW):
706 - separated from the text module
707 - dvifile class returns standard pyx canvas instances on readpage
709 - removed manualpart and partitioners mix keyword
710 - results of the splitting at "=" in graph.function were not stripped
711 - skip title=None in key (cf. bug #821284), properly align a single key entry
712 - another (the last?!) axis redesign: axispos -> class of its own
713 - some axispos name have changed slightly (zeroline -> zeropath etc.)
714 - tick/data-vmin/vmax removed
717 - minor enhancements in exponentionaltexter
718 - axes alongs paths including a set of examples
719 - mixing a partitioner and manual ticks by two distinct keyword arguments now
720 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
721 - part -> parter renaming
723 - stroke, fill, draw, set and insert do no longer accept variable length argument lists but
724 an attribute list as last argument
725 - stroke and fill now support trafos (TODO: documentation)
726 - uppercase version of a4, a3, ... paperformats
728 - new module for loading PyX configuration information
730 - automatically import main modules into pyx namespace as suggested by Fernando
733 - check for sorting of parameter list passed to path.split method
734 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
736 - contains decoratedpath and decorators from canvas module
737 - all predefined decorators are instances now (deco.stroked is thus ok) and
738 attributes have to be passed explicitely, e.g., deco.earrow.small(attrs=color.rgb.red)
739 and deco.stroked([color.rgb.blue])
740 - style module (NEW):
741 - contains all line- and fillstyles which formerly had been defined in the canvas module
742 - dash now supports relative dash lengths (as suggested by Otto Tronarp)
744 - fixed incorrect handling of - (for instance -x**2 was not negative)
746 - contents have been moved to the (obsolete) tex module, which was the only user anyhow, and
747 the module itself was removed
749 - new fallback solution in pure python
750 - bugfix: pyxadapt.h needs to open files binary under Windows (reported by Gary Pajer)
752 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
754 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
758 - "in" to "inch" in paperformats
760 - fix pyx.def hack occuring whenever \ProcessOptions* was used by a package
762 - implement different file formats for Python version of module
764 - python fallback solution should behave the same way as c extension module (closes SF bug #799182 reported
765 by Marcus Mendenhall)
767 - added "connector" to __all__
771 - separate texter out of the axispainter
772 - axis/partitioner/texter/painter/axispos redesign & interfaces
773 - tick.text is renamed to tick.label
774 - ticks and labels are renamed to tickpos/tickdist and labelpos/labeldist in partitioning
775 - ticks can be used in the part to mix a partitioner with some manual ticks
776 -> manualpart and the mix technique is not needed anymore
777 (both things are still available and working, but they will be removed in the future)
778 - _ensurefrac is implemented inside the frac constructor now; initialization is possible by:
779 - a (enum, denom) tuple now (previously there were two arguments)
780 - a string (as before via _ensurefrac)
781 - exponential strings are allowed as well (e.g. "1e10" etc.)
782 - a float (precision is determined by floatprecision -- the number of decimal places)
787 - reset() method for the texrunner
788 - automatic restart of a TeX instance with the same preamble (preamble changes are not possible)
789 - texmessage.loadfd for accepting font description loading
790 - don't bail out on width_index == 0, but mark character invalid instead
792 - support for specials; pyxgraphics flag
793 - support psfonts.map: font names, font encodings
794 - bugfix \def\ProcessPyXBox -> \long\def\ProcessPyXBox
795 - improved lfs handling
797 - full documentation via doc strings
799 - some preliminary version
801 - multiple radii (up to two per point) and softnesses
802 - ensurecenter added --- do we always force the creation of a center?
804 - lentopar methods added including some tests
806 - new parameter bbox allows to override the bounding box of the eps file
810 - derive TFMError and DVIError correctly from exceptions.Exception
811 - close files and pipes, if they are no longer used (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
812 - remove DeprecationWarning in Python 2.3 (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
814 - correct rounding algorithm (Michael Schindler)
816 - refer to the graphs texrunner instead of the defaulttexrunner (cf. #728209)
817 - rounding towards zero bugfix in autolinpart
818 - log axis range rating bugfix
820 - addarg bugs (#738724)
822 - fix mixing up of height and width in scale calculation
823 - and various other fixer here and there
827 - fix bug in dvi rule code where width was height
828 - fix preamble attribute checking bug
829 - fix texmessage.load pattern search instead of pattern match bug
830 - renamed vbox to parbox (was done in 0.3 partially only)
832 - allow for tuples in arguments of the data class
833 - convenience: exchanged order of named parameters in data.data
835 - convenience: allow for part=None in _axis (base of linaxis and logaxis)
837 - added a latex example (requested)
838 - added a attributechange example (requested)
839 - added back the integral example (requested; prior PyX 0.3 it was part of the user manual)
840 - small change in vector example (allow for the access to the texrunner)
841 - examples included in source distribution
843 - correct arrow template calculation for very short paths
847 - new easy to use example generation (will hopefully lead to nice examples)
849 - new module for handling of convex polygons (taken out of the graph module)
851 - new module containing a collection of helper functions (taken out of the graph module)
852 - moved the attrlist into helper -- as plain functions; attrlist becomes obsolete
854 - new module: a new and preferable integration of TeX/LaTeX
856 - strip glyphs from pfa/pfb-fonts
857 - there is a C implementation taken from pdftex
858 - fallback solution via an external program (pfb2pfa)
860 - (partial) C binding to libkpathsea
861 - fallback solution via an external program (kpsewhich)
863 - removed some code duplication (various axis painters)
864 - use text module instead of the obsolete tex module
865 - allow for tailing zeros of automatic generated labels
866 - allow for missing data in bar graphs -> skipmissing parameter
867 - remove the support for variables given as keyword arguments in data constructor
868 - use context instead of extern for extern variables and functions
869 - graph keys; titles in data/function/etc.
871 - new classes for visual and width lengths, aliases for user length (u_pt = pt)
872 - all length classes have now by default a quantifier 1 (instead of 0), such that,
873 for instance, 5*unit.t_cm() == unit.t_cm(5)
874 - default_unit now has to be set via unit.set. For instance: unit.set(defaultunit="m").
875 - convert_to is now an internal function, which moreover does not longer accept tuples or lists
877 - new class _bbox (the former bbox) which accepts points in the constructor. This is used
878 for internal purposes.
879 - the bbox constructor now accepts user lengths in the constructor.
880 - new methods height, width, top, bottom, left, right
881 - ll & ur ???, what about ul and lr -> ugly!
882 - enlarge (was enhance) now allows selective enlargement to the left, bottom, right and top
883 - output HiResBoundingBox
884 - never reduce bbox upon output
886 - new constructor signature, more in line with rest of PyX:
887 epsfile(x, y, filename, **additional_args)
889 - removed additional column support in addcolumn; removed _addcolumn
890 - line reduction for datafile like the every parameter in gnuplot
892 - new way of PS prolog generation that writes only necessary parts
893 - added support for patterns
894 - canvas.insert() now supports arguments
895 - bbox of canvas can be specified in writetofile command explicitely
896 - writetofile does not return self anymore
897 - arrow template now uses intersection with circle to get size right
898 (as per a suggestion by Michael Schindler)
901 - changed the handling of extern functions and all variables
903 - gradient renamed to palette
905 - problem with sizefile on windows (tex module)
906 - allow for strings in graphxy's width and height; allow for width only (graph module)
907 - disable rating for labelattrs equals None (graph module)
908 - defaultstyle selection, when a list of data is provided to the plot function (graph module)
909 - traverse when adding functions as arguments of operators (mathtree module)
910 - allow for extern functions in addcolumn (data module)
911 - just one common place for the version number
912 - fix incorrect exception name MathError (path module)
913 - prevent double return of intersections for closed sub paths
918 - allow division of length by numbers
920 - new transformation: slant
921 - renamed all trafo methods to use the participle (i.e translate->translated)
922 - the name of all trafo subclasses are verbs (i.e. translation->translate)
924 - mark class renamed to symbol
925 - (text-)box distance measurement
926 - moved axis partitioning to axis and axis painter
927 - automatic axis partitioning (now officially: general cleanup, distance measurement, documentation)
929 - baraxis, baraxispainter, and bar style
931 - previously named datafile module
932 - class "_datafile" renamed to class "data"
933 - class sectionfile added
936 - extern variables and functions (support in graph.function, graph.paramfunction and data.data)
939 - deferred to Version 0.3
940 - running TeX "on the fly" is basically implemented
942 - transformation bug (#624068, trafo module)
943 - canvas transformations (canvas module???)
944 - textbox alignment (graph module)
945 - return linewidth upon calculation with linewidths (unit module)
946 - allow column number variables with several digits
948 - british and american spellings (color module, graph module)
949 - small logo modifications