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