6 - make dash length available
8 - SlantFont & Co support
9 - keep an eye on PEP 324 (popen 5): it could make the texrunner much easier
10 - messageparser for replaced fontsizes: Warning
11 - messageparser for size differences at the end: Warning not Exception
12 - messageparser for overfull/underfull vbox/hbox: Warning not Exception
13 - newline removal when not disturbing texmessages only
15 - common bboxes for different graphs
16 - 3d graphs, circular graphs
17 - axis painter labelattrs=None + automatic axis partitioning leads to no valid partitioning
18 - when all titles are None, a graph key currently raises an exception
19 - translatecanvas should be the default in graph.style.symbol
20 - graph.style and graph.data modules
21 - exceptions in drawsymbol & friends...
22 - fix docu (or code) of gridattrs functionality of axis painters
23 (how can one, e.g. draw a grid at the ticks and not at the subticks)
25 - use csv module (new in 2.3)
26 - Check for "inf" and "nan" in datafiles.
27 (When plotted, the graph does not complain, but the postscript will be broken)
29 - add styles using curves instead of lines
30 - add "steps" style for histogram-like plots
32 - contructor should only take a texrunner keyword argument
35 - style and color module:
36 - support modification of existing styles via __call__
38 - height -> getheight, ...
40 - might be moved into the graph
41 - perform calc by means of Python itself (see eval code in graph.data, but
42 we should use compiled code instead of eval)
44 - support single-character mode
46 - what should we do for palette when only one entry
48 - is the early conversion with unit.topt unit-modification-save?
50 - better names for the helper functions ?
51 - why does smoothed through away short normpathitems instead of simply ignoring them?
52 Where is the difference? [MS]
54 - clearly distingish between readers and writers. dvifile, epsfile, etc. might
55 be renamed to dvireader, epsreader ...
57 - stroking of patterns does not work in PDF
58 - patterns call the outputPS method in registerPS and have no writer at that
59 time -> rewrite this code
64 - more details in path constructor: allowed pathels, first pathel...
70 Attributes (clearing merging ) and changeable attributes should be
71 explained at a central place.
72 - section titles: "Axes" -> "Axes - module axis" or similar
74 - linealign and circlealign
76 update length constructor description (strings are no longer supported, etc.)
78 styles: document what data name the styles accept (require). Try also to be more
79 userfriendly and not to describe immediately the internals of the implementation:
80 (see e.g. class.style.symbol)
83 - describe creation and modification (inplace and ``modify by new'') of
88 - path parameters and argument handling
89 - repair normpath-conversion of arct
90 - document module: new
91 - container classes for document and pages
92 - document.paperformat class (strings are deprecated)
94 - writeEPSfile wraps a canvas in a single page document and performs the output
98 - completely rewritten: support for fonts and patterns has been added
99 - pswriter module: new
100 - separate PS output from canvas
101 - new signature of outputPS methods: writer and context are passed as additional
104 - allow selection on zero range palette (reported by Francisco Borges, cf. bug #1116257)
107 - addontop added to stackedbarpos
108 - column -> columnname renaming where appropriate
109 - histogram style added
111 - function needs explicit variable definition (implicit variable definition is deprecated)
112 - column names are inherited by data.data() except when copy=0; unused columns are silently ignored now
113 - dynamic function data on a logarithmic axis uses isinstance check now
115 - extend graph keys to allow for several columns (TODO: documentation)
116 - axis data handling refactureing:
117 - introcuded an axis positioner
118 - introduced anchoredaxis to make axis data and positioning local to a graph
119 - linkedaxis is a special version of anchoredaxis and are generic (they use the new linkpainter provided by an axis)
120 - unification of split and bar axes; removed some black magic in baraxis in favor of a nestedbar axis
121 - x linked to x2 etc. is now possible
122 - axis.inverse was removed (the only place it was (mis)used was by a function)
124 - allow to transform axis after layout
125 - [xy]axisat arguments in the constructor to easily move [xy]-axes to the position
126 defined the orthogonal axis
127 - TODO: update documentation
128 - prolog module: deleted (replaced by resource module)
129 - resource module: new
130 - resources: fonts and definitions
134 - tfm->dvi conversion rounding bugfix
135 - fix parsing of empty strings ("") in fontmap files (reported by John Owens, bug #1218983)
136 - changed requirements to python 2.1:
137 - nested scopes are needed without fallback solution by the path module
138 - use warning module for warnings
140 - the very old tex module finally got removed completely
142 - correctly call base class constructor in linewidth
144 - correct EOL handling while reading DSC's (reported by Markus Meyer)
145 - pattern module: new
146 - moved canvas.pattern to its own module together with the new PDFpattern class
147 - update address of FSF in LICENSE file
152 - EPS header fixed (reported by Russell Lang, cf. bug #1065099)
154 - use CURDIR instead of PWD (reported by David M. Cooke, bug #1070285)
156 - support windows line endings (patch by Hans-Andreas Engel, cf. bug #1071160)
158 - line attributes handling fixed (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
159 - fix typos in predefined symbols (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
160 - cut column name list at the max. number of columns (reported by Arnd Baecker)
162 - add INDEX and README files to distribution
163 - new errorbar and julia example
165 - pdf snippets for tipa based phonetic transliterations
170 - new module for inclusion of bitmap images
172 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
173 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
175 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
176 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
177 - enlarge was misspelled as enlarged
178 - renamed _bbox -> bbox_pt
179 - new bbox method center, which returns the coordinates of the center
181 - enlarge and enlarged do no longer interprete unqualified lengths as
184 - unit.cm, unit.t_cm, etc. are no longer sub classes but instances
186 - never convert implicitly into visual/width, etc. lengths (this is more
187 about usage of the unit module in various other modules) (TODO: update
189 - support for string initialization removed
190 - support for initialisation with other length removed
191 - lengths can now be divided by other lengths (as suggested by Michael Gruber
192 and Magnus Lie HHetland)
194 - postpone reading of fontmap files until TeX/LaTeX is started
195 - sign of font number in dvifile (reported by Michael Gruber)
198 - added new classes page and document for multipage PostScript output
199 - apply deformers (instead of trafos) in draw method
201 - decrease interval for dotted and dash-dotted lines for better visual
203 - setup.py and distribution:
204 - create siteconfig on install to store positions of the shared data
207 - graph style + data reorganization
208 - modularization of the graph styles by separating data handling and drawing tasks
209 - several graph styles can now be combined together
210 - graph data can internally now combine different data sources
211 (by that, some nasty side effects could have been removed)
212 - enum -> num renaming
213 - allow for horizontally and vertically centered graph key alignment and a key background
214 - fix bug that graph was not finished automatically when a bbox was specified
215 manually (reported by David Barton)
217 - pathel -> pathitem, etc. renaming
218 - methods accepting a parameter value / arc length now also allow the user to
219 pass a tuple (subpath, param) / (subpath, arclen)
220 - normpath constructor no longer accepts a path or normpath as argument but only a list
221 of normsubpaths. Use the new normpath method of the path instead to construct a normpath
223 - normsubpath can now deal with short (i.e. shorter than epsilon) segments correctly
224 - the intersect and split methods of normpath and normsubpath have been completely rewritten and
225 now take the accuracy epsilon correctly into account. Note that for a closed subpath the
226 split function now returns the segment containing the closing point as first element
227 in the result list (before, it was returned as last element).
228 - normsubpathitems and normsubpath now implement much more methods also provided by
229 path and normpath instances
230 - normpath.append no longer accepts pathitems but only normsubpaths
231 - deformer module: new
232 - moved cycloid and smoothed from deco into deformer
234 - handle "BoundingBox: (atend)" (cf. bug #945621 reported by Jim Boyle)
235 - kpsearch option to search for file using the kpathsea library (contributed by Michael Gruber)
237 - PSCmd and PSOp are now joined in a new class canvasitem
239 - decorated path no longer allows modification of its path
240 - new method excluderange which allows to remove certain parameter ranges from the stroked path
241 - additional canvas provided by decorated path is now called ornaments
242 - constriction=None now indicates an arrowhead without constriction
244 - trafos are now deformers
246 - a bunch of bargraph examples have been added
251 - fix errorbar range adjustment
252 - fix empty tick lists bug (reported by Marko Vendelin, cf. bug #977323)
253 - graph/style module:
254 - symbolline drawing order in graph key (cf. bug #990687)
256 - access to builtin list (reported by Marcus Mendenhall, cf. bug #1042458)
261 - fix drawing with background
262 - fix insertion of a zero length path when the whole line is outside
263 the valid axis range (reported by Marko Vendelin)
265 - include source for faq and manual
266 - distribute the pdf instead of postscript (manual, faq, examples)
271 - fixed title=None + graph key issue reported by Gabriel Vasseur
272 - graph.axis.painter.plain -> graph.axis.painter.regular
273 (as it was in parts of the documentation already)
274 - changeable-gridattrs-become-None-bug fixed
275 - graph style cutting outside lines (double-)fixed
279 - fixes missing install of the graph and axis directories introduced in 0.6
280 - some minor updates to the faq
285 - reorganisation of the graph structure finished (there might be some
286 small pending issues, but the basic restructuring is done with this release):
287 - graph splitted into several modules in pyx/graph and pyx/graph/axis
288 - painters are using the new attribute scheme including changeable
290 - graph styles rewrite
292 - axis zeropath feature has been removed
293 - mergelabels removed; linpart doesn't have a label argument anymore
294 - names and texts removed from baraxis
295 - iteration on graph style, when it is used several times in the same graph
296 - symbols + lines -> symbollines; symbols do not allow setting lineattrs,
297 and lines not symbolattrs
298 - manual line clipping (do not include unneeded line segments when the
299 axis range is set manually etc.)
300 - automatic file key titles
301 - graph.data now also includes the old data module
302 - data.list adds (by default) a line number like data.file
303 (thus regular columns are counted from 1)
305 - added new pathels multilineto_pt and multicurveto which allows to specify
306 a list of points and can thus be much more efficient
307 - internal methods return coordinates in pts
308 - arclentoparam returns only parameters not total length
309 - added path.arclength_pt, path.at_pt, path.begin_pt, path.end_pt (and
310 correspondingly for normpath)
311 - complete refactoring of the normpath class: normpaths now consist of
312 normsubpaths which themselves consist of normlines and normcurves This is
313 much more convenient for any routines working with normpaths.
314 - reversing of closed sub paths does not change the first point of the sub
316 - renamed: arclength -> arclen
317 - renamed: lentopar -> arclentoparam
318 - renamed: glue -> joined
319 - normpath now supports join, the in-place version of joined
320 - path and normpath method raise exception instead of returning None
321 when parameter is out of range
322 - the accuracy epsilon can now only be specified in normpath and normsubpath
323 constructor and no longer in arguments of path and normpath methods
324 - negative parameters are no longer supported in path and normpath methods
325 - path and normpath methods which accept parameter value param now
326 alternatively accept an arc length
330 - arrow heads are no longer stroked (as suggested by Magnus Lie Hetland)
332 - writeEPSfile deprecates writetofile
333 - internally, write methods are renamed in outputPS
334 - canvas constructor no longer accepts variable argument list but
335 expects a list of attrs as first argument (defaulting to []) and
336 a texrunner as second argument (defaulting to text.defaulttexrunner)
337 - set, draw, stroke and fill no longer return self, i.e., the canvas, but None
339 - added inplace add (__iadd__), enlarge and transform methods
340 - callers use inplace add where possible now (yielding a considerable
342 - "undefined" corners of bounding boxes are no longer supported which makes
343 the bounding box operations much more efficient.
345 - renamed _xxx -> xxx_pt
347 - removed showbbox argument of epsfile class
349 - default handling of texmessages as in the new attribute scheme
350 - multiple insert bug fixed
351 - made left, right, width, height, depth information available (x length
352 not taking into account box transformations)
353 - ignore tex message "Please type a command or say `\\end'"
354 - added textboxes that are sequentially filled (experimental)
356 - mandel.py (contributed by Stephen Phillips)
358 - length comparision (David Beach)
362 - switched to the new parser using pythons parser module
364 - removed, it all lives in the graph.data module now, while before it
365 was splitted into two separate modules
367 - not imported by default anymore
368 - obsolete warning when importing this module
372 - include missing c-files for optional extension modules
374 - fix unpaired BeginProcSet/EndProcSet in font enconding
377 - setup.py and distribution:
378 - allow customization of the extension modules built (via setup.cfg)
379 - disable building pykpathsea module by default
380 - more detailed description of install process in INSTALL
381 - provide more information and pointers to other files in README
382 - include example data files in distribution (suggested by Andrea Riciputi)
383 - force dvips to write ps files instead of printing them (suggested by Otto Tronarp)
384 - includ pyxfaq.pdf in distribution
386 - improved is-readable test for lfs files and pyx.def file
387 - explicitly quit (La)TeX in cleantmp (helps when quitting with <Ctrl>C)
388 - showwaitfortex implemented following a suggestion by Fernando Perez
389 (waitfortex is increased to 60 seconds now)
390 - support of TeX extension --ipc for reading dvi results while TeX keeps running
391 - configurable font mapping files (via pyxrc or parameter of the texrunner constructor)
392 - markers to get access to positions within TeX expressions
393 - fix: allow for e-tex in texmessage.start (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
394 - fix: print warning at syntax errors in font mapping file and continue (cf. bug #795271)
395 - remove limitation on number of fonts in dvi file
396 - added native virtual font support
397 - dvicopy support not needed anymore (it is still available, but obsolete and
398 removed from the documentation)
399 - do not include too many glyphs in the eps file
400 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
401 - dvifile module (NEW):
402 - separated from the text module
403 - dvifile class returns standard pyx canvas instances on readpage
405 - removed manualpart and partitioners mix keyword
406 - results of the splitting at "=" in graph.function were not stripped
407 - skip title=None in key (cf. bug #821284), properly align a single key entry
408 - another (the last?!) axis redesign: axispos -> class of its own
409 - some axispos name have changed slightly (zeroline -> zeropath etc.)
410 - tick/data-vmin/vmax removed
413 - minor enhancements in exponentionaltexter
414 - axes alongs paths including a set of examples
415 - mixing a partitioner and manual ticks by two distinct keyword arguments now
416 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
417 - part -> parter renaming
419 - stroke, fill, draw, set and insert do no longer accept variable length argument lists but
420 an attribute list as last argument
421 - stroke and fill now support trafos (TODO: documentation)
422 - uppercase version of a4, a3, ... paperformats
424 - new module for loading PyX configuration information
426 - automatically import main modules into pyx namespace as suggested by Fernando
429 - check for sorting of parameter list passed to path.split method
430 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
432 - contains decoratedpath and decorators from canvas module
433 - all predefined decorators are instances now (deco.stroked is thus ok) and
434 attributes have to be passed explicitely, e.g., deco.earrow.small(attrs=color.rgb.red)
435 and deco.stroked([color.rgb.blue])
436 - style module (NEW):
437 - contains all line- and fillstyles which formerly had been defined in the canvas module
438 - dash now supports relative dash lengths (as suggested by Otto Tronarp)
440 - fixed incorrect handling of - (for instance -x**2 was not negative)
442 - contents have been moved to the (obsolete) tex module, which was the only user anyhow, and
443 the module itself was removed
445 - new fallback solution in pure python
446 - bugfix: pyxadapt.h needs to open files binary under Windows (reported by Gary Pajer)
448 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
450 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
454 - "in" to "inch" in paperformats
456 - fix pyx.def hack occuring whenever \ProcessOptions* was used by a package
458 - implement different file formats for Python version of module
460 - python fallback solution should behave the same way as c extension module (closes SF bug #799182 reported
461 by Marcus Mendenhall)
463 - added "connector" to __all__
467 - separate texter out of the axispainter
468 - axis/partitioner/texter/painter/axispos redesign & interfaces
469 - tick.text is renamed to tick.label
470 - ticks and labels are renamed to tickpos/tickdist and labelpos/labeldist in partitioning
471 - ticks can be used in the part to mix a partitioner with some manual ticks
472 -> manualpart and the mix technique is not needed anymore
473 (both things are still available and working, but they will be removed in the future)
474 - _ensurefrac is implemented inside the frac constructor now; initialization is possible by:
475 - a (enum, denom) tuple now (previously there were two arguments)
476 - a string (as before via _ensurefrac)
477 - exponential strings are allowed as well (e.g. "1e10" etc.)
478 - a float (precision is determined by floatprecision -- the number of decimal places)
483 - reset() method for the texrunner
484 - automatic restart of a TeX instance with the same preamble (preamble changes are not possible)
485 - texmessage.loadfd for accepting font description loading
486 - don't bail out on width_index == 0, but mark character invalid instead
488 - support for specials; pyxgraphics flag
489 - support psfonts.map: font names, font encodings
490 - bugfix \def\ProcessPyXBox -> \long\def\ProcessPyXBox
491 - improved lfs handling
493 - full documentation via doc strings
495 - some preliminary version
497 - multiple radii (up to two per point) and softnesses
498 - ensurecenter added --- do we always force the creation of a center?
500 - lentopar methods added including some tests
502 - new parameter bbox allows to override the bounding box of the eps file
506 - derive TFMError and DVIError correctly from exceptions.Exception
507 - close files and pipes, if they are no longer used (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
508 - remove DeprecationWarning in Python 2.3 (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
510 - correct rounding algorithm (Michael Schindler)
512 - refer to the graphs texrunner instead of the defaulttexrunner (cf. #728209)
513 - rounding towards zero bugfix in autolinpart
514 - log axis range rating bugfix
516 - addarg bugs (#738724)
518 - fix mixing up of height and width in scale calculation
519 - and various other fixer here and there
523 - fix bug in dvi rule code where width was height
524 - fix preamble attribute checking bug
525 - fix texmessage.load pattern search instead of pattern match bug
526 - renamed vbox to parbox (was done in 0.3 partially only)
528 - allow for tuples in arguments of the data class
529 - convenience: exchanged order of named parameters in data.data
531 - convenience: allow for part=None in _axis (base of linaxis and logaxis)
533 - added a latex example (requested)
534 - added a attributechange example (requested)
535 - added back the integral example (requested; prior PyX 0.3 it was part of the user manual)
536 - small change in vector example (allow for the access to the texrunner)
537 - examples included in source distribution
539 - correct arrow template calculation for very short paths
543 - new easy to use example generation (will hopefully lead to nice examples)
545 - new module for handling of convex polygons (taken out of the graph module)
547 - new module containing a collection of helper functions (taken out of the graph module)
548 - moved the attrlist into helper -- as plain functions; attrlist becomes obsolete
550 - new module: a new and preferable integration of TeX/LaTeX
552 - strip glyphs from pfa/pfb-fonts
553 - there is a C implementation taken from pdftex
554 - fallback solution via an external program (pfb2pfa)
556 - (partial) C binding to libkpathsea
557 - fallback solution via an external program (kpsewhich)
559 - removed some code duplication (various axis painters)
560 - use text module instead of the obsolete tex module
561 - allow for tailing zeros of automatic generated labels
562 - allow for missing data in bar graphs -> skipmissing parameter
563 - remove the support for variables given as keyword arguments in data constructor
564 - use context instead of extern for extern variables and functions
565 - graph keys; titles in data/function/etc.
567 - new classes for visual and width lengths, aliases for user length (u_pt = pt)
568 - all length classes have now by default a quantifier 1 (instead of 0), such that,
569 for instance, 5*unit.t_cm() == unit.t_cm(5)
570 - default_unit now has to be set via unit.set. For instance: unit.set(defaultunit="m").
571 - convert_to is now an internal function, which moreover does not longer accept tuples or lists
573 - new class _bbox (the former bbox) which accepts points in the constructor. This is used
574 for internal purposes.
575 - the bbox constructor now accepts user lengths in the constructor.
576 - new methods height, width, top, bottom, left, right
577 - ll & ur ???, what about ul and lr -> ugly!
578 - enlarge (was enhance) now allows selective enlargement to the left, bottom, right and top
579 - output HiResBoundingBox
580 - never reduce bbox upon output
582 - new constructor signature, more in line with rest of PyX:
583 epsfile(x, y, filename, **additional_args)
585 - removed additional column support in addcolumn; removed _addcolumn
586 - line reduction for datafile like the every parameter in gnuplot
588 - new way of PS prolog generation that writes only necessary parts
589 - added support for patterns
590 - canvas.insert() now supports arguments
591 - bbox of canvas can be specified in writetofile command explicitely
592 - writetofile does not return self anymore
593 - arrow template now uses intersection with circle to get size right
594 (as per a suggestion by Michael Schindler)
597 - changed the handling of extern functions and all variables
599 - gradient renamed to palette
601 - problem with sizefile on windows (tex module)
602 - allow for strings in graphxy's width and height; allow for width only (graph module)
603 - disable rating for labelattrs equals None (graph module)
604 - defaultstyle selection, when a list of data is provided to the plot function (graph module)
605 - traverse when adding functions as arguments of operators (mathtree module)
606 - allow for extern functions in addcolumn (data module)
607 - just one common place for the version number
608 - fix incorrect exception name MathError (path module)
609 - prevent double return of intersections for closed sub paths
614 - allow division of length by numbers
616 - new transformation: slant
617 - renamed all trafo methods to use the participle (i.e translate->translated)
618 - the name of all trafo subclasses are verbs (i.e. translation->translate)
620 - mark class renamed to symbol
621 - (text-)box distance measurement
622 - moved axis partitioning to axis and axis painter
623 - automatic axis partitioning (now officially: general cleanup, distance measurement, documentation)
625 - baraxis, baraxispainter, and bar style
627 - previously named datafile module
628 - class "_datafile" renamed to class "data"
629 - class sectionfile added
632 - extern variables and functions (support in graph.function, graph.paramfunction and data.data)
635 - deferred to Version 0.3
636 - running TeX "on the fly" is basically implemented
638 - transformation bug (#624068, trafo module)
639 - canvas transformations (canvas module???)
640 - textbox alignment (graph module)
641 - return linewidth upon calculation with linewidths (unit module)
642 - allow column number variables with several digits
644 - british and american spellings (color module, graph module)
645 - small logo modifications