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 ?
52 - clearly distingish between readers and writers. dvifile, epsfile, etc. might
53 be renamed to dvireader, epsreader ...
55 - stroking of patterns does not work in PDF
56 - patterns call the outputPS method in registerPS and have no writer at that
57 time -> rewrite this code
62 - more details in path constructor: allowed pathels, first pathel...
68 Attributes (clearing merging ) and changeable attributes should be
69 explained at a central place.
70 - section titles: "Axes" -> "Axes - module axis" or similar
72 - linealign and circlealign
74 update length constructor description (strings are no longer supported, etc.)
76 styles: document what data name the styles accept (require). Try also to be more
77 userfriendly and not to describe immediately the internals of the implementation:
78 (see e.g. class.style.symbol)
81 - describe creation and modification (inplace and ``modify by new'') of
86 - path parameters and argument handling
87 - the arct to arc/arcn conversion (needed for bbox calculation and for conversion into
88 normpath) has been fixed
89 - document module: new
90 - container classes for document and pages
91 - document.paperformat class (strings are deprecated)
93 - writeEPSfile wraps a canvas in a single page document and performs the output
97 - completely rewritten: support for fonts and patterns has been added
98 - pswriter module: new
99 - separate PS output from canvas
100 - new signature of outputPS methods: writer and context are passed as additional
103 - allow selection on zero range palette (reported by Francisco Borges, cf. bug #1116257)
106 - addontop added to stackedbarpos
107 - column -> columnname renaming where appropriate
108 - histogram style added
110 - function needs explicit variable definition (implicit variable definition is deprecated)
111 - column names are inherited by data.data() except when copy=0; unused columns are silently ignored now
112 - dynamic function data on a logarithmic axis uses isinstance check now
114 - extend graph keys to allow for several columns (TODO: documentation)
115 - axis data handling refactoring:
116 - introcuded an axis positioner
117 - introduced anchoredaxis to make axis data and positioning local to a graph
118 - linkedaxis is a special version of anchoredaxis and are generic (they use the new linkpainter provided by an axis)
119 - unification of split and bar axes; removed some black magic in baraxis in favor of a nestedbar axis
120 - x linked to x2 etc. is now possible
121 - axis.inverse was removed (the only place it was (mis)used was by a function)
123 - allow to transform axis after layout
124 - [xy]axisat arguments in the constructor to easily move [xy]-axes to the position
125 defined the orthogonal axis
126 - TODO: update documentation
127 - prolog module: deleted (replaced by resource module)
131 - tfm->dvi conversion rounding bugfix
132 - fix parsing of empty strings ("") in fontmap files (reported by John Owens, bug #1218983)
133 - changed requirements to python 2.1:
134 - nested scopes are needed without fallback solution by the path module
135 - use warning module for warnings
137 - the very old tex module finally got removed completely
139 - correctly call base class constructor in linewidth
141 - correct EOL handling while reading DSC's (reported by Markus Meyer)
142 - pattern module: new
143 - moved canvas.pattern to its own module together with the new PDFpattern class
144 - update address of FSF in LICENSE file
149 - EPS header fixed (reported by Russell Lang, cf. bug #1065099)
151 - use CURDIR instead of PWD (reported by David M. Cooke, bug #1070285)
153 - support windows line endings (patch by Hans-Andreas Engel, cf. bug #1071160)
155 - line attributes handling fixed (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
156 - fix typos in predefined symbols (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
157 - cut column name list at the max. number of columns (reported by Arnd Baecker)
159 - add INDEX and README files to distribution
160 - new errorbar and julia example
162 - pdf snippets for tipa based phonetic transliterations
167 - new module for inclusion of bitmap images
169 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
170 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
172 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
173 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
174 - enlarge was misspelled as enlarged
175 - renamed _bbox -> bbox_pt
176 - new bbox method center, which returns the coordinates of the center
178 - enlarge and enlarged do no longer interprete unqualified lengths as
181 - unit.cm, unit.t_cm, etc. are no longer sub classes but instances
183 - never convert implicitly into visual/width, etc. lengths (this is more
184 about usage of the unit module in various other modules) (TODO: update
186 - support for string initialization removed
187 - support for initialisation with other length removed
188 - lengths can now be divided by other lengths (as suggested by Michael Gruber
189 and Magnus Lie HHetland)
191 - postpone reading of fontmap files until TeX/LaTeX is started
192 - sign of font number in dvifile (reported by Michael Gruber)
195 - added new classes page and document for multipage PostScript output
196 - apply deformers (instead of trafos) in draw method
198 - decrease interval for dotted and dash-dotted lines for better visual
200 - setup.py and distribution:
201 - create siteconfig on install to store positions of the shared data
204 - graph style + data reorganization
205 - modularization of the graph styles by separating data handling and drawing tasks
206 - several graph styles can now be combined together
207 - graph data can internally now combine different data sources
208 (by that, some nasty side effects could have been removed)
209 - enum -> num renaming
210 - allow for horizontally and vertically centered graph key alignment and a key background
211 - fix bug that graph was not finished automatically when a bbox was specified
212 manually (reported by David Barton)
214 - pathel -> pathitem, etc. renaming
215 - methods accepting a parameter value / arc length now also allow the user to
216 pass a tuple (subpath, param) / (subpath, arclen)
217 - normpath constructor no longer accepts a path or normpath as argument but only a list
218 of normsubpaths. Use the new normpath method of the path instead to construct a normpath
220 - normsubpath can now deal with short (i.e. shorter than epsilon) segments correctly
221 - the intersect and split methods of normpath and normsubpath have been completely rewritten and
222 now take the accuracy epsilon correctly into account. Note that for a closed subpath the
223 split function now returns the segment containing the closing point as first element
224 in the result list (before, it was returned as last element).
225 - normsubpathitems and normsubpath now implement much more methods also provided by
226 path and normpath instances
227 - normpath.append no longer accepts pathitems but only normsubpaths
228 - deformer module: new
229 - moved cycloid and smoothed from deco into deformer
231 - handle "BoundingBox: (atend)" (cf. bug #945621 reported by Jim Boyle)
232 - kpsearch option to search for file using the kpathsea library (contributed by Michael Gruber)
234 - PSCmd and PSOp are now joined in a new class canvasitem
236 - decorated path no longer allows modification of its path
237 - new method excluderange which allows to remove certain parameter ranges from the stroked path
238 - additional canvas provided by decorated path is now called ornaments
239 - constriction=None now indicates an arrowhead without constriction
241 - trafos are now deformers
243 - a bunch of bargraph examples have been added
248 - fix errorbar range adjustment
249 - fix empty tick lists bug (reported by Marko Vendelin, cf. bug #977323)
250 - graph/style module:
251 - symbolline drawing order in graph key (cf. bug #990687)
253 - access to builtin list (reported by Marcus Mendenhall, cf. bug #1042458)
258 - fix drawing with background
259 - fix insertion of a zero length path when the whole line is outside
260 the valid axis range (reported by Marko Vendelin)
262 - include source for faq and manual
263 - distribute the pdf instead of postscript (manual, faq, examples)
268 - fixed title=None + graph key issue reported by Gabriel Vasseur
269 - graph.axis.painter.plain -> graph.axis.painter.regular
270 (as it was in parts of the documentation already)
271 - changeable-gridattrs-become-None-bug fixed
272 - graph style cutting outside lines (double-)fixed
276 - fixes missing install of the graph and axis directories introduced in 0.6
277 - some minor updates to the faq
282 - reorganisation of the graph structure finished (there might be some
283 small pending issues, but the basic restructuring is done with this release):
284 - graph splitted into several modules in pyx/graph and pyx/graph/axis
285 - painters are using the new attribute scheme including changeable
287 - graph styles rewrite
289 - axis zeropath feature has been removed
290 - mergelabels removed; linpart doesn't have a label argument anymore
291 - names and texts removed from baraxis
292 - iteration on graph style, when it is used several times in the same graph
293 - symbols + lines -> symbollines; symbols do not allow setting lineattrs,
294 and lines not symbolattrs
295 - manual line clipping (do not include unneeded line segments when the
296 axis range is set manually etc.)
297 - automatic file key titles
298 - graph.data now also includes the old data module
299 - data.list adds (by default) a line number like data.file
300 (thus regular columns are counted from 1)
302 - added new pathels multilineto_pt and multicurveto which allows to specify
303 a list of points and can thus be much more efficient
304 - internal methods return coordinates in pts
305 - arclentoparam returns only parameters not total length
306 - added path.arclength_pt, path.at_pt, path.begin_pt, path.end_pt (and
307 correspondingly for normpath)
308 - complete refactoring of the normpath class: normpaths now consist of
309 normsubpaths which themselves consist of normlines and normcurves This is
310 much more convenient for any routines working with normpaths.
311 - reversing of closed sub paths does not change the first point of the sub
313 - renamed: arclength -> arclen
314 - renamed: lentopar -> arclentoparam
315 - renamed: glue -> joined
316 - normpath now supports join, the in-place version of joined
317 - path and normpath method raise exception instead of returning None
318 when parameter is out of range
319 - the accuracy epsilon can now only be specified in normpath and normsubpath
320 constructor and no longer in arguments of path and normpath methods
321 - negative parameters are no longer supported in path and normpath methods
322 - path and normpath methods which accept parameter value param now
323 alternatively accept an arc length
327 - arrow heads are no longer stroked (as suggested by Magnus Lie Hetland)
329 - writeEPSfile deprecates writetofile
330 - internally, write methods are renamed in outputPS
331 - canvas constructor no longer accepts variable argument list but
332 expects a list of attrs as first argument (defaulting to []) and
333 a texrunner as second argument (defaulting to text.defaulttexrunner)
334 - set, draw, stroke and fill no longer return self, i.e., the canvas, but None
336 - added inplace add (__iadd__), enlarge and transform methods
337 - callers use inplace add where possible now (yielding a considerable
339 - "undefined" corners of bounding boxes are no longer supported which makes
340 the bounding box operations much more efficient.
342 - renamed _xxx -> xxx_pt
344 - removed showbbox argument of epsfile class
346 - default handling of texmessages as in the new attribute scheme
347 - multiple insert bug fixed
348 - made left, right, width, height, depth information available (x length
349 not taking into account box transformations)
350 - ignore tex message "Please type a command or say `\\end'"
351 - added textboxes that are sequentially filled (experimental)
353 - mandel.py (contributed by Stephen Phillips)
355 - length comparision (David Beach)
359 - switched to the new parser using pythons parser module
361 - removed, it all lives in the graph.data module now, while before it
362 was splitted into two separate modules
364 - not imported by default anymore
365 - obsolete warning when importing this module
369 - include missing c-files for optional extension modules
371 - fix unpaired BeginProcSet/EndProcSet in font enconding
374 - setup.py and distribution:
375 - allow customization of the extension modules built (via setup.cfg)
376 - disable building pykpathsea module by default
377 - more detailed description of install process in INSTALL
378 - provide more information and pointers to other files in README
379 - include example data files in distribution (suggested by Andrea Riciputi)
380 - force dvips to write ps files instead of printing them (suggested by Otto Tronarp)
381 - includ pyxfaq.pdf in distribution
383 - improved is-readable test for lfs files and pyx.def file
384 - explicitly quit (La)TeX in cleantmp (helps when quitting with <Ctrl>C)
385 - showwaitfortex implemented following a suggestion by Fernando Perez
386 (waitfortex is increased to 60 seconds now)
387 - support of TeX extension --ipc for reading dvi results while TeX keeps running
388 - configurable font mapping files (via pyxrc or parameter of the texrunner constructor)
389 - markers to get access to positions within TeX expressions
390 - fix: allow for e-tex in texmessage.start (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
391 - fix: print warning at syntax errors in font mapping file and continue (cf. bug #795271)
392 - remove limitation on number of fonts in dvi file
393 - added native virtual font support
394 - dvicopy support not needed anymore (it is still available, but obsolete and
395 removed from the documentation)
396 - do not include too many glyphs in the eps file
397 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
398 - dvifile module (NEW):
399 - separated from the text module
400 - dvifile class returns standard pyx canvas instances on readpage
402 - removed manualpart and partitioners mix keyword
403 - results of the splitting at "=" in graph.function were not stripped
404 - skip title=None in key (cf. bug #821284), properly align a single key entry
405 - another (the last?!) axis redesign: axispos -> class of its own
406 - some axispos name have changed slightly (zeroline -> zeropath etc.)
407 - tick/data-vmin/vmax removed
410 - minor enhancements in exponentionaltexter
411 - axes alongs paths including a set of examples
412 - mixing a partitioner and manual ticks by two distinct keyword arguments now
413 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
414 - part -> parter renaming
416 - stroke, fill, draw, set and insert do no longer accept variable length argument lists but
417 an attribute list as last argument
418 - stroke and fill now support trafos (TODO: documentation)
419 - uppercase version of a4, a3, ... paperformats
421 - new module for loading PyX configuration information
423 - automatically import main modules into pyx namespace as suggested by Fernando
426 - check for sorting of parameter list passed to path.split method
427 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
429 - contains decoratedpath and decorators from canvas module
430 - all predefined decorators are instances now (deco.stroked is thus ok) and
431 attributes have to be passed explicitely, e.g., deco.earrow.small(attrs=color.rgb.red)
432 and deco.stroked([color.rgb.blue])
433 - style module (NEW):
434 - contains all line- and fillstyles which formerly had been defined in the canvas module
435 - dash now supports relative dash lengths (as suggested by Otto Tronarp)
437 - fixed incorrect handling of - (for instance -x**2 was not negative)
439 - contents have been moved to the (obsolete) tex module, which was the only user anyhow, and
440 the module itself was removed
442 - new fallback solution in pure python
443 - bugfix: pyxadapt.h needs to open files binary under Windows (reported by Gary Pajer)
445 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
447 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
451 - "in" to "inch" in paperformats
453 - fix pyx.def hack occuring whenever \ProcessOptions* was used by a package
455 - implement different file formats for Python version of module
457 - python fallback solution should behave the same way as c extension module (closes SF bug #799182 reported
458 by Marcus Mendenhall)
460 - added "connector" to __all__
464 - separate texter out of the axispainter
465 - axis/partitioner/texter/painter/axispos redesign & interfaces
466 - tick.text is renamed to tick.label
467 - ticks and labels are renamed to tickpos/tickdist and labelpos/labeldist in partitioning
468 - ticks can be used in the part to mix a partitioner with some manual ticks
469 -> manualpart and the mix technique is not needed anymore
470 (both things are still available and working, but they will be removed in the future)
471 - _ensurefrac is implemented inside the frac constructor now; initialization is possible by:
472 - a (enum, denom) tuple now (previously there were two arguments)
473 - a string (as before via _ensurefrac)
474 - exponential strings are allowed as well (e.g. "1e10" etc.)
475 - a float (precision is determined by floatprecision -- the number of decimal places)
480 - reset() method for the texrunner
481 - automatic restart of a TeX instance with the same preamble (preamble changes are not possible)
482 - texmessage.loadfd for accepting font description loading
483 - don't bail out on width_index == 0, but mark character invalid instead
485 - support for specials; pyxgraphics flag
486 - support psfonts.map: font names, font encodings
487 - bugfix \def\ProcessPyXBox -> \long\def\ProcessPyXBox
488 - improved lfs handling
490 - full documentation via doc strings
492 - some preliminary version
494 - multiple radii (up to two per point) and softnesses
495 - ensurecenter added --- do we always force the creation of a center?
497 - lentopar methods added including some tests
499 - new parameter bbox allows to override the bounding box of the eps file
503 - derive TFMError and DVIError correctly from exceptions.Exception
504 - close files and pipes, if they are no longer used (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
505 - remove DeprecationWarning in Python 2.3 (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
507 - correct rounding algorithm (Michael Schindler)
509 - refer to the graphs texrunner instead of the defaulttexrunner (cf. #728209)
510 - rounding towards zero bugfix in autolinpart
511 - log axis range rating bugfix
513 - addarg bugs (#738724)
515 - fix mixing up of height and width in scale calculation
516 - and various other fixer here and there
520 - fix bug in dvi rule code where width was height
521 - fix preamble attribute checking bug
522 - fix texmessage.load pattern search instead of pattern match bug
523 - renamed vbox to parbox (was done in 0.3 partially only)
525 - allow for tuples in arguments of the data class
526 - convenience: exchanged order of named parameters in data.data
528 - convenience: allow for part=None in _axis (base of linaxis and logaxis)
530 - added a latex example (requested)
531 - added a attributechange example (requested)
532 - added back the integral example (requested; prior PyX 0.3 it was part of the user manual)
533 - small change in vector example (allow for the access to the texrunner)
534 - examples included in source distribution
536 - correct arrow template calculation for very short paths
540 - new easy to use example generation (will hopefully lead to nice examples)
542 - new module for handling of convex polygons (taken out of the graph module)
544 - new module containing a collection of helper functions (taken out of the graph module)
545 - moved the attrlist into helper -- as plain functions; attrlist becomes obsolete
547 - new module: a new and preferable integration of TeX/LaTeX
549 - strip glyphs from pfa/pfb-fonts
550 - there is a C implementation taken from pdftex
551 - fallback solution via an external program (pfb2pfa)
553 - (partial) C binding to libkpathsea
554 - fallback solution via an external program (kpsewhich)
556 - removed some code duplication (various axis painters)
557 - use text module instead of the obsolete tex module
558 - allow for tailing zeros of automatic generated labels
559 - allow for missing data in bar graphs -> skipmissing parameter
560 - remove the support for variables given as keyword arguments in data constructor
561 - use context instead of extern for extern variables and functions
562 - graph keys; titles in data/function/etc.
564 - new classes for visual and width lengths, aliases for user length (u_pt = pt)
565 - all length classes have now by default a quantifier 1 (instead of 0), such that,
566 for instance, 5*unit.t_cm() == unit.t_cm(5)
567 - default_unit now has to be set via unit.set. For instance: unit.set(defaultunit="m").
568 - convert_to is now an internal function, which moreover does not longer accept tuples or lists
570 - new class _bbox (the former bbox) which accepts points in the constructor. This is used
571 for internal purposes.
572 - the bbox constructor now accepts user lengths in the constructor.
573 - new methods height, width, top, bottom, left, right
574 - ll & ur ???, what about ul and lr -> ugly!
575 - enlarge (was enhance) now allows selective enlargement to the left, bottom, right and top
576 - output HiResBoundingBox
577 - never reduce bbox upon output
579 - new constructor signature, more in line with rest of PyX:
580 epsfile(x, y, filename, **additional_args)
582 - removed additional column support in addcolumn; removed _addcolumn
583 - line reduction for datafile like the every parameter in gnuplot
585 - new way of PS prolog generation that writes only necessary parts
586 - added support for patterns
587 - canvas.insert() now supports arguments
588 - bbox of canvas can be specified in writetofile command explicitely
589 - writetofile does not return self anymore
590 - arrow template now uses intersection with circle to get size right
591 (as per a suggestion by Michael Schindler)
594 - changed the handling of extern functions and all variables
596 - gradient renamed to palette
598 - problem with sizefile on windows (tex module)
599 - allow for strings in graphxy's width and height; allow for width only (graph module)
600 - disable rating for labelattrs equals None (graph module)
601 - defaultstyle selection, when a list of data is provided to the plot function (graph module)
602 - traverse when adding functions as arguments of operators (mathtree module)
603 - allow for extern functions in addcolumn (data module)
604 - just one common place for the version number
605 - fix incorrect exception name MathError (path module)
606 - prevent double return of intersections for closed sub paths
611 - allow division of length by numbers
613 - new transformation: slant
614 - renamed all trafo methods to use the participle (i.e translate->translated)
615 - the name of all trafo subclasses are verbs (i.e. translation->translate)
617 - mark class renamed to symbol
618 - (text-)box distance measurement
619 - moved axis partitioning to axis and axis painter
620 - automatic axis partitioning (now officially: general cleanup, distance measurement, documentation)
622 - baraxis, baraxispainter, and bar style
624 - previously named datafile module
625 - class "_datafile" renamed to class "data"
626 - class sectionfile added
629 - extern variables and functions (support in graph.function, graph.paramfunction and data.data)
632 - deferred to Version 0.3
633 - running TeX "on the fly" is basically implemented
635 - transformation bug (#624068, trafo module)
636 - canvas transformations (canvas module???)
637 - textbox alignment (graph module)
638 - return linewidth upon calculation with linewidths (unit module)
639 - allow column number variables with several digits
641 - british and american spellings (color module, graph module)
642 - small logo modifications