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