5 - make dash length available
7 - repair PDF generation with unincluded standard fonts (currently broken)
8 - SlantFont & Co support
9 - keep an eye on PEP 324 (popen 5): it could make the texrunner much easier
10 - discuss reltransform: https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9137692&forum_id=23700
11 - add encoding; check whether encoding=ascii works well for the common existing cases
12 - write graphics driver for pgf.sty from LaTeX
13 - ignore "(Please type a command or say `\end')" in preamble method
14 - properly handle file names with spaces in (like "C:\program files\texmf\tex\latex\base\article.cls" in
17 - common bboxes for different graphs
18 - 3d graphs, circular graphs
19 - axis painter labelattrs=None + automatic axis partitioning leads to no valid partitioning
20 - when all titles are None, a graph key currently raises an exception
21 - translatecanvas should be the default in graph.style.symbol
22 - automatic scaling of y-axis according to subset of data shown on x-axis
23 - graph.axis.timeaxis.timetick must not override datetime.datetime __init__ method (since datetime.datetime
24 instances are immutable like ints)
25 - graph.style and graph.data modules
26 - fix docu of gridattrs functionality of axis painters
27 (how can one, e.g. draw a grid at the ticks and not at the subticks)
28 - make graph.style.symbol.diamond a graph.style.symbol instance (to be discussed)
30 - use csv module (new in 2.3)
31 - Check for "inf" and "nan" in datafiles.
32 (When plotted, the graph does not complain, but the output will be broken;
33 this depends on the plattform and is not only an issue within the graph system)
35 - add styles using curves instead of lines
36 - graph.texter module:
37 - rename period argument of decimal texters to recurring_decimal or something similar (as pointed out
40 - contructor should only take a texrunner keyword argument
42 - stroking of patterns does not work in PDF
43 - style and color module:
44 - support modification of existing styles via __call__
46 - ReusableStreamDecode?
47 - proper ASCII85Decode/HexDecode switch
48 - Support for transparent bitmaps?
50 - rewrite height, etc. using properties
52 - support single-character mode
53 - fix problem reported by Gert Ingold: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20090323081817.GA34112%40physik.uni-augsburg.de&forum_name=pyx-user
55 - move helper path routines to some more generic place for paths?
56 - pdffile module needed (similar to epsfile)
58 - clearly distingish between readers and writers. dvifile, epsfile, etc. might
59 be renamed to dvireader, epsreader ...
60 - support gsave and grestore in some way to make context handling easier?
62 - support colorspace argument (like c.writeEPSfile("bla", colorspace="cmyk"))
63 - move pyx.def, lfs-files etc. into a new share directory
64 - write fakepattern.py which substitutes some of the pattern functionality using
66 - libkpathsea bindung:
67 - create a ctypes based binding to replace the extension module implementation in the long
71 - describe + vs << vs join
72 - more details in path constructor: allowed pathels, first pathel...
77 Changeable attributes should be explained at a central place.
79 - linealign and circlealign
80 - need to be redone anyway
82 styles: document what data name the styles accept (require). Try also to be more
83 userfriendly and not to describe immediately the internals of the implementation:
84 (see e.g. class.style.symbol)
85 - document interface to access tick positions
88 - add an epsfile example (suggested by Stathis Sideris)
89 - add a small example line on y="f($1)" in one of the plot examples
93 - describe creation and modification (inplace and ``modify by new'') of
97 - type 1 font modules:
98 - allow font slanting for T1builtinfont instances
99 - improve stripped font compatibility
100 - allow Type1 font usage without TeX and without AFM font metric
102 - fix raise condition while generating bitmap for PDF inclusion
107 - fix pipeGS (adding support for writing using pycompat.popen)
109 - arrow decorator: proper sign of constriction length for positioning
113 - increase designsize deviation to 4 (needs some further investigation)
115 - fixes due to the dvi and font restructuring
117 - fix build process for extension modules
118 - fix download url to allow for easy_install (hopefully)
120 - converted to sphinx
124 - font and dvi modules:
125 - major reorganization
126 - TeX mapping files are a property of the writer now
127 By that the pdfwriter now uses pdftex.map instead of psfonts.map
128 (It's also possible to pass a fontmap to a texrunners text method to use
129 different mappings within a single output file)
130 - support for font matrices (afm) for Type1 fonts
131 (using fonts without a metrics is still supported, but properly issues
133 - interface for basic TeX-less text output
134 - new PS and PDF writer options: strip_fonts, text_as_path, mesh_as_bitmap,
135 mesh_as_bitmap_resolution
136 - fix for commented out UniqueID
137 - fix rounding of font sizes
138 - fix scaling of VF position increments
139 - new filelocator module
141 - bar style on graphxyz (single datasets only)
143 - fix position of z4 axis
144 - set correct errorname for z axis (thanks to Axel Freyn)
145 - fix wrong y value usage instead of z value in pos methods
146 - fix unused color range settings in surface style (thanks to Michael J Gruber)
147 - fallbackrange for axes with vanishing range
148 - dokeyitem method (to be called with a plotitem) to alter the key order
149 - doplot() was renamed to doplotitem(), dodata() was renamed to doplot()
150 to have similar naming conventions like for the graph key
151 - axis module: do not divide by None for data.min and/or data.max being None (see patch #2833369)
153 - properly rotate axis titles when ticks are not othorgonal
154 to the axis (reported by Christian Delfosse)
155 - correct namedirection in bar axis painter (reported by rhunger, bug #2028032)
156 - graph.style.arrow: decorator is an parameter of the constructor now
157 (thanks to Axel Freyn)
158 - remove ticks with unset ticklevel and labellevel to prevent rating failures
159 (thanks to Brendon Higgins)
160 - canvas and document modules:
161 - auto-guess output filename from the script filename
162 - add ciecolor flag and input type to the pipeGS method of canvas
164 - new config options for psfontmaps and pdffontmaps
165 - new config option for formatting of Python warnings
166 - new config section for new filelocator module
168 - fix two bugs in the read pipe of the texrunner (thanks to
169 Laurence Tratt and Eric Faurot)
170 - fix "<" token handling in mapping file parser (thanks to Matthew West)
171 - fix start message parse error in MiKTeX (thanks to Wojciech Jaskowski)
172 - fix rigid aux file checking (thanks to Clayton E. Myers)
173 - use subprocess module if available
174 - proper error messages when TeX is stopped due to unrecoverable error
176 - implement style.fillrule
178 - added an explicit hatch pattern as an alternative for real postscript patterns
179 - arrow decorator: take into account constriction length when arrow pos < 1
181 - add support for transparent bitmaps (in postscript stencil masking only)
182 - path and normpath modules:
183 - remove incorrect zero length line in PDF output for each first moveto
184 path element (thanks to Michael J Gruber)
185 - raise correct normpath exception (thanks to Axel Freyn)
187 - an ugly way to import EPS in PDF using a bitmap (requires PIL)
193 - graphxyz for 3d graphs with parallel and central projection
194 - doplot method (to be called with a plotitem) to alter the plotitem order etc.
196 - new surface style for 3d graphs (colored surfaces are functional
197 (and useful!) for 2d graphs as well)
198 - new grid style for 3d graphs
200 - optional textdx/textdy columns to the text style added
201 - arrowpos parameter to the arrow style added
202 - bugfix: fromvalue axis range adjustment in histogram style
203 - bugfix: axis range adjustment in range style
205 - painter: don't insert axis title twice (thanks to Tim Gray for reporting this problem)
206 - parter: extend the logarithmic parter to calculate automatic partitions for huge ranges
207 (TODO: documentation of the new autoexponent parameter) (suggested by Dominic Ford)
208 - fix: range rating was not taken into account due in the 0.9 release
210 - list class was renamed to points; deprecation warning added
211 for instance creation, but inheritance from list failes
214 - internal helper module for efficient handling of triangular colored meshs
216 - renamed: palette->gradient, functionpalette->functiongradient, linearpalette->lineargradient
217 - new class palette representing a discrete ordered list of colors
218 - support transparency for filling/stroking in pdf separately
219 - transparency support for postscript as available by means of a proprietary
220 ghostscript extension (for ps2pdf)
221 - renamed method: tostring8bit -> to8bitstring (bug #2932888)
223 - add multichangeattr to perform a select on different changeable attributes
224 depending on the selects total number
227 - add missing glyph traversal in t1seacs updatepath
229 - support zero-length normsubpaths
231 - don't change order of attrs passed to canvas constructor in place
232 - added __truediv__ methods according to PEP 238
236 - most important changes (to be included in the release notes):
237 - mathtree removal (warning about integer division)
238 - barpos style does not build tuples for nestedbar axes automatically
239 - new deformers for path manipulation (for smoothing, shifting, ... paths)
241 - new framework for font handling
242 - own implementation of type1 font stripping (old pdftex code fragments removed)
243 - complete type1 font command representation and glyph path extraction from font programs
244 - t1code extension module (C version of de-/encoding routines used in Type 1 font files)
248 - mathtree removal: more flexibility due to true python expressions
249 - default style instantiation bug (reported by Gregory Novak)
251 - automatic subaxis tuple creation removed in barpos (create tuples
252 in expressions now; subnames argument removed since it became pointless;
253 adujstaxis became independend from selectstyle for all styles now)
254 - remove multiple painting of frompath in histogram and barpos styles
255 - fix missing attribute select when using a bar style once only (reported by Alan Isaac)
256 - fix histograms for negative y-coordinates (reported by Dominic Ford, bug #1492548)
257 - fix histogram to stroke lines to the baseline for steps=0 when two subsequent values are equal
258 - add key method for histogram style (reported by Hagemann, bug #1371554)
259 - implement a changebar style
260 - graph, axis and style module:
261 - support for mutual linking of axes between graphs
262 - new domethods dependency handling
263 - separate axis range calculation from dolayout
264 - axis.parter module:
265 - linear and logarthmic partitioners always need lists now
266 (as it was documented all the time; renamed tickdist/labeldist
267 to tickdists/labeldists; renamed tickpos/labelpos to
268 tickpreexps/labelpreexps)
270 - patch to tickpos and vtickpos (reported by Wojciech Smigaj, cf. patch #1286112)
271 - anchoredpathaxis added (suggested by Wojciech Smigaj)
272 - properly handle range rating on inversed axis (reported by Dominic Ford, cf. bug #1461513)
273 - invalidate axis partitions with a single label only by the distance rater
274 - fallback (with warning) to linear partitioner on a small logarithmics scale
276 - patch to allow for tickattrs=None (reported by Wojciech Smigaj, cf. patch #1286116)
278 - transparency support (PDF only)
279 - conversion between colorspaces
280 - nonlinear palettes added
281 - the former palette must now be initialized as linearpalette
282 - remove min and max arguments of palettes
284 - improve escapestring to handle all ascii characters
285 - correct vshift when text size is modified by a text.size instance
286 - recover from exceptions (reported by Alan Isaac)
287 - handle missing italic angle information in tfm for pdf output (reported by Brett Calcott)
288 - allow for .def and .fd files in texmessage.loaddef (new name for
289 texmessage.loadfd, which was restricted to .fd files)
291 - correct closepath (do not invalidate currentpoint but set it to the
292 beginning of the current subpath); structural rework of pathitems
293 - calculate real bboxes for Bezier curves
294 - fix intersection due to non-linear parametrization of bezier curves
295 - add rotate methods to path, normpath, normsubpath, and normsubpathitems
296 - add flushskippedline to normsubpath
297 - add arclentoparam to normsubpath and normsubpathitems
298 - path is no longer a canvasitem
299 - reduce number of parameters of outputPS/outputPDF methods (do not pass context and registry)
301 - contains normpath, normsubpath and normpathparam which have originally
302 been in the path module
303 - return "invalid" for certain path operations when the curve "speed" is
304 below a certain threshold
305 - normpath is no longer a canvasitem
306 - reduce number of parameters of outputPS/outputPDF methods (do not pass context and registry)
308 - rewritten smoothed to make use of the subnormpath facilities
309 - rewritten parallel for arbitrary paths
311 - add basic text decorator
312 - allow arrows at arbitrary positions along the path
314 - boxdists parameter need to be a list/tuple of two items now
315 - changed the orientation of the angle parameters
317 - renamed _apply to apply_pt
318 - introduce _epsilon for checking the singularity of a trafo
320 - use rectclip instead of clip to remove the clipping path from the
321 PostScript stack, which otherwise might create strange effects for
322 certain PostScript files (reported by Gert Ingold)
324 - silently ignore TrueType fonts in font mapping files (reported by Gabriel Vasseur)
326 - accept [ and ] as separators in encoding files (reported by Mojca Miklavec, cf. bug #1429524)
328 - remove registerPS/registerPDF in favour of registering resourcing during the outputPS/outputPDF run
329 - move bbox handling to registry
330 - rename outputPS/outputPDF -> processPS/processPDF
331 - remove set method of canvas
332 - add a pipeGS method to directly pass the PyX output to ghostscript
333 - allow file instances as parameter of the writeXXXfile methods (feature request #1419658 by Jason Pratt)
335 - allow file instances as parameter of the writeXXXfile methods (feature request #1419658 by Jason Pratt)
337 - make rellength the default for dash styles
339 - switched to subversion on 2006/03/09
343 - fix bug in postscript deco code for stroking only attributes
345 - fix multicurveto._normalized
346 - fix path.paramtoarclen and path.paramtoarclen_pt
347 - remove unused method-local function
348 - fix linestyle rellength in PostScript
349 - correction to the rounding problems in circles (reported by Uwe Fabricius)
353 - issue a warning when not using a stroke color for patterns
355 - postpone PDFfontdescriptor information, since it raises an error on certain
356 fonts even when PostScript output was requested (reported by Gert Ingold)
357 - remove spurious spaces when checking for empty texmessages
359 - caching in fallback to lower system call bottleneck
361 - add missing writePSfile wrapper
362 - add *args to writeEPSfile and writePDFfile wrappers
364 - writebbox option to write bbox information (disabled by default)
365 even when a paper format is specified (PS and PDF writers only)
366 - use arclen in spring example
368 - use pdf graphic files for pdf version of the manual
369 - use PyX to create tipa fallbacks for FAQ
370 - correct description regarding the manual in the README file
374 - changed requirements to python 2.1 or newer:
375 - nested scopes are needed without fallback solution by the path module
376 (at other places fallback solutions for missing nested scopes are missing as well)
377 - use warning module for warnings
379 - path parameters and argument handling
380 - the arct to arc/arcn conversion (needed for bbox calculation and for conversion into
381 normpath) has been fixed
382 - document module: new
383 - container classes for document and pages
384 - document.paperformat class (strings are deprecated)
386 - writeEPSfile wraps a canvas in a single page document and performs the output
390 - completely rewritten: support for fonts and patterns has been added
391 - pswriter module: new
392 - separate PS output from canvas
393 - new signature of outputPS methods: writer and context are passed as additional
396 - allow selection on zero range palette (reported by Francisco Borges, cf. bug #1116257)
397 - prolog module: removed due to code reorganisation
399 - modifications on __init__.py in graph and axis subdirectories to
400 make "from pyx.graph import *" working as expected
402 - addontop added to stackedbarpos
403 - column -> columnname renaming where appropriate
404 - histogram style added
406 - function needs explicit variable definition (implicit variable definition is deprecated)
407 - column names are inherited by data.data() except when copy=0;
408 unused columns are silently ignored now
409 - dynamic function data on a logarithmic axis uses isinstance check now
410 (although it removes the only (mis)use of axis.inverse, it is a
411 temporary solution only)
413 - extend graph keys to allow for several columns
414 - axis data handling refactoring:
415 - introcuded an axis positioner (module graph.axis.positioner)
416 - introduced anchoredaxis to make axis data and positioning local to a graph
417 - linkedaxis is a special version of anchoredaxis and is generic
418 (it uses the new linkpainter provided by an axis)
419 - unification of split and bar axes;
420 removed some black magic in baraxis in favor of a nestedbar axis
421 - x linked to x2 etc. is now possible
422 - axis.inverse was removed (the only place it was (mis)used was by a function)
424 - allow to transform axis after layout
425 - [xy]axisat arguments in the constructor to easily move [xy]-axes
426 to a position defined the orthogonal axis
427 - remove axispos (use the axis dictionary now, since it now contains
428 anchored axis instances and those have shortcuts for the axis positioner
431 - tfm->dvi conversion rounding bugfix
432 - fix parsing of empty strings ("") in fontmap files (reported by John Owens, bug #1218983)
434 - support for halign of boxes and content of boxes (see halign example)
435 - take units xscale into account in parbox
436 - messageparser for replaced fontsizes: Warning -> implemented by texmessage.fontwarning
437 - messageparser for size differences at the end: Warning not Exception -> implemented by texmessage.fontwarning
438 - messageparser for overfull/underfull vbox/hbox: Warning not Exception -> implemented by texmessage.boxwarning
439 - dvicopy flag removed
440 - allow argument of set to be None
441 - rename nomathmode and nophantom to clearmathmode and clearphantom
442 - texmessagepattern for easy creation of simple TeX message parsers
443 - allow long file names in file checking TeX message parsers
444 - no newline removal to not disturbe TeX messages when reporting errors
445 - reworked documentation to use the python documentation standards
447 - linewidth is no longer a unit.length subclass but expects a such as first argument
449 - correct EOL handling while reading DSC's (reported by Markus Meyer)
450 - pattern module: new
451 - moved canvas.pattern to its own module together with the new PDFpattern class
452 - add some default patterns: hatched and crosshatched
454 - improve the smoothing deformer
455 - add a parallel deformer
457 - the very old tex module finally got removed completely
459 - a simple converter from dvi to EPS/PS/PDF files (dviconvert.py) has been added
460 - a simple imagine to EPS/PS/PDF converter (imgconvert.py) has been added
461 - a simple dvitype.py has been added
462 - update address of FSF all over the place
467 - EPS header fixed (reported by Russell Lang, cf. bug #1065099)
469 - use CURDIR instead of PWD (reported by David M. Cooke, bug #1070285)
471 - support windows line endings (patch by Hans-Andreas Engel, cf. bug #1071160)
473 - line attributes handling fixed (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
474 - fix typos in predefined symbols (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
475 - cut column name list at the max. number of columns (reported by Arnd Baecker)
477 - add INDEX and README files to distribution
478 - new errorbar and julia example
480 - pdf snippets for tipa based phonetic transliterations
485 - new module for inclusion of bitmap images
487 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
488 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
490 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
491 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
492 - enlarge was misspelled as enlarged
493 - renamed _bbox -> bbox_pt
494 - new bbox method center, which returns the coordinates of the center
496 - enlarge and enlarged do no longer interprete unqualified lengths as
499 - unit.cm, unit.t_cm, etc. are no longer sub classes but instances
501 - never convert implicitly into visual/width, etc. lengths (this is more
502 about usage of the unit module in various other modules) (TODO: update
504 - support for string initialization removed
505 - support for initialisation with other length removed
506 - lengths can now be divided by other lengths (as suggested by Michael Gruber
507 and Magnus Lie Hetland)
509 - postpone reading of fontmap files until TeX/LaTeX is started
510 - sign of font number in dvifile (reported by Michael Gruber)
513 - added new classes page and document for multipage PostScript output
514 - apply deformers (instead of trafos) in draw method
516 - decrease interval for dotted and dash-dotted lines for better visual
518 - setup.py and distribution:
519 - create siteconfig on install to store positions of the shared data
522 - graph style + data reorganization
523 - modularization of the graph styles by separating data handling and drawing tasks
524 - several graph styles can now be combined together
525 - graph data can internally now combine different data sources
526 (by that, some nasty side effects could have been removed)
527 - enum -> num renaming
528 - allow for horizontally and vertically centered graph key alignment and a key background
529 - fix bug that graph was not finished automatically when a bbox was specified
530 manually (reported by David Barton)
532 - pathel -> pathitem, etc. renaming
533 - methods accepting a parameter value / arc length now also allow the user to
534 pass a tuple (subpath, param) / (subpath, arclen)
535 - normpath constructor no longer accepts a path or normpath as argument but only a list
536 of normsubpaths. Use the new normpath method of the path instead to construct a normpath
538 - normsubpath can now deal with short (i.e. shorter than epsilon) segments correctly
539 - the intersect and split methods of normpath and normsubpath have been completely rewritten and
540 now take the accuracy epsilon correctly into account. Note that for a closed subpath the
541 split function now returns the segment containing the closing point as first element
542 in the result list (before, it was returned as last element).
543 - normsubpathitems and normsubpath now implement much more methods also provided by
544 path and normpath instances
545 - normpath.append no longer accepts pathitems but only normsubpaths
546 - deformer module: new
547 - moved cycloid and smoothed from deco into deformer
549 - handle "BoundingBox: (atend)" (cf. bug #945621 reported by Jim Boyle)
550 - kpsearch option to search for file using the kpathsea library (contributed by Michael Gruber)
552 - PSCmd and PSOp are now joined in a new class canvasitem
554 - decorated path no longer allows modification of its path
555 - new method excluderange which allows to remove certain parameter ranges from the stroked path
556 - additional canvas provided by decorated path is now called ornaments
557 - constriction=None now indicates an arrowhead without constriction
559 - trafos are now deformers
561 - a bunch of bargraph examples have been added
566 - fix errorbar range adjustment
567 - fix empty tick lists bug (reported by Marko Vendelin, cf. bug #977323)
568 - graph/style module:
569 - symbolline drawing order in graph key (cf. bug #990687)
571 - access to builtin list (reported by Marcus Mendenhall, cf. bug #1042458)
576 - fix drawing with background
577 - fix insertion of a zero length path when the whole line is outside
578 the valid axis range (reported by Marko Vendelin)
580 - include source for faq and manual
581 - distribute the pdf instead of postscript (manual, faq, examples)
586 - fixed title=None + graph key issue reported by Gabriel Vasseur
587 - graph.axis.painter.plain -> graph.axis.painter.regular
588 (as it was in parts of the documentation already)
589 - changeable-gridattrs-become-None-bug fixed
590 - graph style cutting outside lines (double-)fixed
594 - fixes missing install of the graph and axis directories introduced in 0.6
595 - some minor updates to the faq
600 - reorganisation of the graph structure finished (there might be some
601 small pending issues, but the basic restructuring is done with this release):
602 - graph splitted into several modules in pyx/graph and pyx/graph/axis
603 - painters are using the new attribute scheme including changeable
605 - graph styles rewrite
607 - axis zeropath feature has been removed
608 - mergelabels removed; linpart doesn't have a label argument anymore
609 - names and texts removed from baraxis
610 - iteration on graph style, when it is used several times in the same graph
611 - symbols + lines -> symbollines; symbols do not allow setting lineattrs,
612 and lines not symbolattrs
613 - manual line clipping (do not include unneeded line segments when the
614 axis range is set manually etc.)
615 - automatic file key titles
616 - graph.data now also includes the old data module
617 - data.list adds (by default) a line number like data.file
618 (thus regular columns are counted from 1)
620 - added new pathels multilineto_pt and multicurveto which allows to specify
621 a list of points and can thus be much more efficient
622 - internal methods return coordinates in pts
623 - arclentoparam returns only parameters not total length
624 - added path.arclength_pt, path.at_pt, path.begin_pt, path.end_pt (and
625 correspondingly for normpath)
626 - complete refactoring of the normpath class: normpaths now consist of
627 normsubpaths which themselves consist of normlines and normcurves This is
628 much more convenient for any routines working with normpaths.
629 - reversing of closed sub paths does not change the first point of the sub
631 - renamed: arclength -> arclen
632 - renamed: lentopar -> arclentoparam
633 - renamed: glue -> joined
634 - normpath now supports join, the in-place version of joined
635 - path and normpath method raise exception instead of returning None
636 when parameter is out of range
637 - the accuracy epsilon can now only be specified in normpath and normsubpath
638 constructor and no longer in arguments of path and normpath methods
639 - negative parameters are no longer supported in path and normpath methods
640 - path and normpath methods which accept parameter value param now
641 alternatively accept an arc length
645 - arrow heads are no longer stroked (as suggested by Magnus Lie Hetland)
647 - writeEPSfile deprecates writetofile
648 - internally, write methods are renamed in outputPS
649 - canvas constructor no longer accepts variable argument list but
650 expects a list of attrs as first argument (defaulting to []) and
651 a texrunner as second argument (defaulting to text.defaulttexrunner)
652 - set, draw, stroke and fill no longer return self, i.e., the canvas, but None
654 - added inplace add (__iadd__), enlarge and transform methods
655 - callers use inplace add where possible now (yielding a considerable
657 - "undefined" corners of bounding boxes are no longer supported which makes
658 the bounding box operations much more efficient.
660 - renamed _xxx -> xxx_pt
662 - removed showbbox argument of epsfile class
664 - default handling of texmessages as in the new attribute scheme
665 - multiple insert bug fixed
666 - made left, right, width, height, depth information available (x length
667 not taking into account box transformations)
668 - ignore tex message "Please type a command or say `\\end'"
669 - added textboxes that are sequentially filled (experimental)
671 - mandel.py (contributed by Stephen Phillips)
673 - length comparision (David Beach)
677 - switched to the new parser using pythons parser module
679 - removed, it all lives in the graph.data module now, while before it
680 was splitted into two separate modules
682 - not imported by default anymore
683 - obsolete warning when importing this module
687 - include missing c-files for optional extension modules
689 - fix unpaired BeginProcSet/EndProcSet in font enconding
692 - setup.py and distribution:
693 - allow customization of the extension modules built (via setup.cfg)
694 - disable building pykpathsea module by default
695 - more detailed description of install process in INSTALL
696 - provide more information and pointers to other files in README
697 - include example data files in distribution (suggested by Andrea Riciputi)
698 - force dvips to write ps files instead of printing them (suggested by Otto Tronarp)
699 - includ pyxfaq.pdf in distribution
701 - improved is-readable test for lfs files and pyx.def file
702 - explicitly quit (La)TeX in cleantmp (helps when quitting with <Ctrl>C)
703 - showwaitfortex implemented following a suggestion by Fernando Perez
704 (waitfortex is increased to 60 seconds now)
705 - support of TeX extension --ipc for reading dvi results while TeX keeps running
706 - configurable font mapping files (via pyxrc or parameter of the texrunner constructor)
707 - markers to get access to positions within TeX expressions
708 - fix: allow for e-tex in texmessage.start (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
709 - fix: print warning at syntax errors in font mapping file and continue (cf. bug #795271)
710 - remove limitation on number of fonts in dvi file
711 - added native virtual font support
712 - dvicopy support not needed anymore (it is still available, but obsolete and
713 removed from the documentation)
714 - do not include too many glyphs in the eps file
715 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
716 - dvifile module (NEW):
717 - separated from the text module
718 - dvifile class returns standard pyx canvas instances on readpage
720 - removed manualpart and partitioners mix keyword
721 - results of the splitting at "=" in graph.function were not stripped
722 - skip title=None in key (cf. bug #821284), properly align a single key entry
723 - another (the last?!) axis redesign: axispos -> class of its own
724 - some axispos name have changed slightly (zeroline -> zeropath etc.)
725 - tick/data-vmin/vmax removed
728 - minor enhancements in exponentionaltexter
729 - axes alongs paths including a set of examples
730 - mixing a partitioner and manual ticks by two distinct keyword arguments now
731 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
732 - part -> parter renaming
734 - stroke, fill, draw, set and insert do no longer accept variable length argument lists but
735 an attribute list as last argument
736 - stroke and fill now support trafos (TODO: documentation)
737 - uppercase version of a4, a3, ... paperformats
739 - new module for loading PyX configuration information
741 - automatically import main modules into pyx namespace as suggested by Fernando
744 - check for sorting of parameter list passed to path.split method
745 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
747 - contains decoratedpath and decorators from canvas module
748 - all predefined decorators are instances now (deco.stroked is thus ok) and
749 attributes have to be passed explicitely, e.g., deco.earrow.small(attrs=color.rgb.red)
750 and deco.stroked([color.rgb.blue])
751 - style module (NEW):
752 - contains all line- and fillstyles which formerly had been defined in the canvas module
753 - dash now supports relative dash lengths (as suggested by Otto Tronarp)
755 - fixed incorrect handling of - (for instance -x**2 was not negative)
757 - contents have been moved to the (obsolete) tex module, which was the only user anyhow, and
758 the module itself was removed
760 - new fallback solution in pure python
761 - bugfix: pyxadapt.h needs to open files binary under Windows (reported by Gary Pajer)
763 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
765 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
769 - "in" to "inch" in paperformats
771 - fix pyx.def hack occuring whenever \ProcessOptions* was used by a package
773 - implement different file formats for Python version of module
775 - python fallback solution should behave the same way as c extension module (closes SF bug #799182 reported
776 by Marcus Mendenhall)
778 - added "connector" to __all__
782 - separate texter out of the axispainter
783 - axis/partitioner/texter/painter/axispos redesign & interfaces
784 - tick.text is renamed to tick.label
785 - ticks and labels are renamed to tickpos/tickdist and labelpos/labeldist in partitioning
786 - ticks can be used in the part to mix a partitioner with some manual ticks
787 -> manualpart and the mix technique is not needed anymore
788 (both things are still available and working, but they will be removed in the future)
789 - _ensurefrac is implemented inside the frac constructor now; initialization is possible by:
790 - a (enum, denom) tuple now (previously there were two arguments)
791 - a string (as before via _ensurefrac)
792 - exponential strings are allowed as well (e.g. "1e10" etc.)
793 - a float (precision is determined by floatprecision -- the number of decimal places)
798 - reset() method for the texrunner
799 - automatic restart of a TeX instance with the same preamble (preamble changes are not possible)
800 - texmessage.loadfd for accepting font description loading
801 - don't bail out on width_index == 0, but mark character invalid instead
803 - support for specials; pyxgraphics flag
804 - support psfonts.map: font names, font encodings
805 - bugfix \def\ProcessPyXBox -> \long\def\ProcessPyXBox
806 - improved lfs handling
808 - full documentation via doc strings
810 - some preliminary version
812 - multiple radii (up to two per point) and softnesses
813 - ensurecenter added --- do we always force the creation of a center?
815 - lentopar methods added including some tests
817 - new parameter bbox allows to override the bounding box of the eps file
821 - derive TFMError and DVIError correctly from exceptions.Exception
822 - close files and pipes, if they are no longer used (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
823 - remove DeprecationWarning in Python 2.3 (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
825 - correct rounding algorithm (Michael Schindler)
827 - refer to the graphs texrunner instead of the defaulttexrunner (cf. #728209)
828 - rounding towards zero bugfix in autolinpart
829 - log axis range rating bugfix
831 - addarg bugs (#738724)
833 - fix mixing up of height and width in scale calculation
834 - and various other fixer here and there
838 - fix bug in dvi rule code where width was height
839 - fix preamble attribute checking bug
840 - fix texmessage.load pattern search instead of pattern match bug
841 - renamed vbox to parbox (was done in 0.3 partially only)
843 - allow for tuples in arguments of the data class
844 - convenience: exchanged order of named parameters in data.data
846 - convenience: allow for part=None in _axis (base of linaxis and logaxis)
848 - added a latex example (requested)
849 - added a attributechange example (requested)
850 - added back the integral example (requested; prior PyX 0.3 it was part of the user manual)
851 - small change in vector example (allow for the access to the texrunner)
852 - examples included in source distribution
854 - correct arrow template calculation for very short paths
858 - new easy to use example generation (will hopefully lead to nice examples)
860 - new module for handling of convex polygons (taken out of the graph module)
862 - new module containing a collection of helper functions (taken out of the graph module)
863 - moved the attrlist into helper -- as plain functions; attrlist becomes obsolete
865 - new module: a new and preferable integration of TeX/LaTeX
867 - strip glyphs from pfa/pfb-fonts
868 - there is a C implementation taken from pdftex
869 - fallback solution via an external program (pfb2pfa)
871 - (partial) C binding to libkpathsea
872 - fallback solution via an external program (kpsewhich)
874 - removed some code duplication (various axis painters)
875 - use text module instead of the obsolete tex module
876 - allow for tailing zeros of automatic generated labels
877 - allow for missing data in bar graphs -> skipmissing parameter
878 - remove the support for variables given as keyword arguments in data constructor
879 - use context instead of extern for extern variables and functions
880 - graph keys; titles in data/function/etc.
882 - new classes for visual and width lengths, aliases for user length (u_pt = pt)
883 - all length classes have now by default a quantifier 1 (instead of 0), such that,
884 for instance, 5*unit.t_cm() == unit.t_cm(5)
885 - default_unit now has to be set via unit.set. For instance: unit.set(defaultunit="m").
886 - convert_to is now an internal function, which moreover does not longer accept tuples or lists
888 - new class _bbox (the former bbox) which accepts points in the constructor. This is used
889 for internal purposes.
890 - the bbox constructor now accepts user lengths in the constructor.
891 - new methods height, width, top, bottom, left, right
892 - ll & ur ???, what about ul and lr -> ugly!
893 - enlarge (was enhance) now allows selective enlargement to the left, bottom, right and top
894 - output HiResBoundingBox
895 - never reduce bbox upon output
897 - new constructor signature, more in line with rest of PyX:
898 epsfile(x, y, filename, **additional_args)
900 - removed additional column support in addcolumn; removed _addcolumn
901 - line reduction for datafile like the every parameter in gnuplot
903 - new way of PS prolog generation that writes only necessary parts
904 - added support for patterns
905 - canvas.insert() now supports arguments
906 - bbox of canvas can be specified in writetofile command explicitely
907 - writetofile does not return self anymore
908 - arrow template now uses intersection with circle to get size right
909 (as per a suggestion by Michael Schindler)
912 - changed the handling of extern functions and all variables
914 - gradient renamed to palette
916 - problem with sizefile on windows (tex module)
917 - allow for strings in graphxy's width and height; allow for width only (graph module)
918 - disable rating for labelattrs equals None (graph module)
919 - defaultstyle selection, when a list of data is provided to the plot function (graph module)
920 - traverse when adding functions as arguments of operators (mathtree module)
921 - allow for extern functions in addcolumn (data module)
922 - just one common place for the version number
923 - fix incorrect exception name MathError (path module)
924 - prevent double return of intersections for closed sub paths
929 - allow division of length by numbers
931 - new transformation: slant
932 - renamed all trafo methods to use the participle (i.e translate->translated)
933 - the name of all trafo subclasses are verbs (i.e. translation->translate)
935 - mark class renamed to symbol
936 - (text-)box distance measurement
937 - moved axis partitioning to axis and axis painter
938 - automatic axis partitioning (now officially: general cleanup, distance measurement, documentation)
940 - baraxis, baraxispainter, and bar style
942 - previously named datafile module
943 - class "_datafile" renamed to class "data"
944 - class sectionfile added
947 - extern variables and functions (support in graph.function, graph.paramfunction and data.data)
950 - deferred to Version 0.3
951 - running TeX "on the fly" is basically implemented
953 - transformation bug (#624068, trafo module)
954 - canvas transformations (canvas module???)
955 - textbox alignment (graph module)
956 - return linewidth upon calculation with linewidths (unit module)
957 - allow column number variables with several digits
959 - british and american spellings (color module, graph module)
960 - small logo modifications