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