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