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 - work in progress: path parameters and argument handling
96 - EPS header fixed (reported by Russell Lang, cf. bug #1065099)
98 - use CURDIR instead of PWD (reported by David M. Cooke, bug #1070285)
100 - support windows line endings (patch by Hans-Andreas Engel, cf. bug #1071160)
102 - line attributes handling fixed (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
103 - fix typos in predefined symbols (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
104 - cut column name list at the max. number of columns (reported by Arnd Baecker)
106 - add INDEX and README files to distribution
107 - new errorbar and julia example
109 - pdf snippets for tipa based phonetic transliterations
114 - new module for inclusion of bitmap images
116 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
117 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
119 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
120 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
121 - enlarge was misspelled as enlarged
122 - renamed _bbox -> bbox_pt
123 - new bbox method center, which returns the coordinates of the center
125 - enlarge and enlarged do no longer interprete unqualified lengths as
128 - unit.cm, unit.t_cm, etc. are no longer sub classes but instances
130 - never convert implicitly into visual/width, etc. lengths (this is more
131 about usage of the unit module in various other modules) (TODO: update
133 - support for string initialization removed
134 - support for initialisation with other length removed
135 - lengths can now be divided by other lengths (as suggested by Michael Gruber
136 and Magnus Lie HHetland)
138 - postpone reading of fontmap files until TeX/LaTeX is started
139 - sign of font number in dvifile (reported by Michael Gruber)
142 - added new classes page and document for multipage PostScript output
143 - apply deformers (instead of trafos) in draw method
145 - decrease interval for dotted and dash-dotted lines for better visual
147 - setup.py and distribution:
148 - create siteconfig on install to store positions of the shared data
151 - graph style + data reorganization
152 - modularization of the graph styles by separating data handling and drawing tasks
153 - several graph styles can now be combined together
154 - graph data can internally now combine different data sources
155 (by that, some nasty side effects could have been removed)
156 - enum -> num renaming
157 - allow for horizontally and vertically centered graph key alignment and a key background
158 - fix bug that graph was not finished automatically when a bbox was specified
159 manually (reported by David Barton)
161 - pathel -> pathitem, etc. renaming
162 - methods accepting a parameter value / arc length now also allow the user to
163 pass a tuple (subpath, param) / (subpath, arclen)
164 - normpath constructor no longer accepts a path or normpath as argument but only a list
165 of normsubpaths. Use the new normpath method of the path instead to construct a normpath
167 - normsubpath can now deal with short (i.e. shorter than epsilon) segments correctly
168 - the intersect and split methods of normpath and normsubpath have been completely rewritten and
169 now take the accuracy epsilon correctly into account. Note that for a closed subpath the
170 split function now returns the segment containing the closing point as first element
171 in the result list (before, it was returned as last element).
172 - normsubpathitems and normsubpath now implement much more methods also provided by
173 path and normpath instances
174 - normpath.append no longer accepts pathitems but only normsubpaths
175 - deformer module: new
176 - moved cycloid and smoothed from deco into deformer
178 - handle "BoundingBox: (atend)" (cf. bug #945621 reported by Jim Boyle)
179 - kpsearch option to search for file using the kpathsea library (contributed by Michael Gruber)
181 - PSCmd and PSOp are now joined in a new class canvasitem
183 - decorated path no longer allows modification of its path
184 - new method excluderange which allows to remove certain parameter ranges from the stroked path
185 - additional canvas provided by decorated path is now called ornaments
186 - constriction=None now indicates an arrowhead without constriction
188 - trafos are now deformers
190 - a bunch of bargraph examples have been added
195 - fix errorbar range adjustment
196 - fix empty tick lists bug (reported by Marko Vendelin, cf. bug #977323)
197 - graph/style module:
198 - symbolline drawing order in graph key (cf. bug #990687)
200 - access to builtin list (reported by Marcus Mendenhall, cf. bug #1042458)
205 - fix drawing with background
206 - fix insertion of a zero length path when the whole line is outside
207 the valid axis range (reported by Marko Vendelin)
209 - include source for faq and manual
210 - distribute the pdf instead of postscript (manual, faq, examples)
215 - fixed title=None + graph key issue reported by Gabriel Vasseur
216 - graph.axis.painter.plain -> graph.axis.painter.regular
217 (as it was in parts of the documentation already)
218 - changeable-gridattrs-become-None-bug fixed
219 - graph style cutting outside lines (double-)fixed
223 - fixes missing install of the graph and axis directories introduced in 0.6
224 - some minor updates to the faq
229 - reorganisation of the graph structure finished (there might be some
230 small pending issues, but the basic restructuring is done with this release):
231 - graph splitted into several modules in pyx/graph and pyx/graph/axis
232 - painters are using the new attribute scheme including changeable
234 - graph styles rewrite
236 - axis zeropath feature has been removed
237 - mergelabels removed; linpart doesn't have a label argument anymore
238 - names and texts removed from baraxis
239 - iteration on graph style, when it is used several times in the same graph
240 - symbols + lines -> symbollines; symbols do not allow setting lineattrs,
241 and lines not symbolattrs
242 - manual line clipping (do not include unneeded line segments when the
243 axis range is set manually etc.)
244 - automatic file key titles
245 - graph.data now also includes the old data module
246 - data.list adds (by default) a line number like data.file
247 (thus regular columns are counted from 1)
249 - added new pathels multilineto_pt and multicurveto which allows to specify
250 a list of points and can thus be much more efficient
251 - internal methods return coordinates in pts
252 - arclentoparam returns only parameters not total length
253 - added path.arclength_pt, path.at_pt, path.begin_pt, path.end_pt (and
254 correspondingly for normpath)
255 - complete refactoring of the normpath class: normpaths now consist of
256 normsubpaths which themselves consist of normlines and normcurves This is
257 much more convenient for any routines working with normpaths.
258 - reversing of closed sub paths does not change the first point of the sub
260 - renamed: arclength -> arclen
261 - renamed: lentopar -> arclentoparam
262 - renamed: glue -> joined
263 - normpath now supports join, the in-place version of joined
264 - path and normpath method raise exception instead of returning None
265 when parameter is out of range
266 - the accuracy epsilon can now only be specified in normpath and normsubpath
267 constructor and no longer in arguments of path and normpath methods
268 - negative parameters are no longer supported in path and normpath methods
269 - path and normpath methods which accept parameter value param now
270 alternatively accept an arc length
274 - arrow heads are no longer stroked (as suggested by Magnus Lie Hetland)
276 - writeEPSfile deprecates writetofile
277 - internally, write methods are renamed in outputPS
278 - canvas constructor no longer accepts variable argument list but
279 expects a list of attrs as first argument (defaulting to []) and
280 a texrunner as second argument (defaulting to text.defaulttexrunner)
281 - set, draw, stroke and fill no longer return self, i.e., the canvas, but None
283 - added inplace add (__iadd__), enlarge and transform methods
284 - callers use inplace add where possible now (yielding a considerable
286 - "undefined" corners of bounding boxes are no longer supported which makes
287 the bounding box operations much more efficient.
289 - renamed _xxx -> xxx_pt
291 - removed showbbox argument of epsfile class
293 - default handling of texmessages as in the new attribute scheme
294 - multiple insert bug fixed
295 - made left, right, width, height, depth information available (x length
296 not taking into account box transformations)
297 - ignore tex message "Please type a command or say `\\end'"
298 - added textboxes that are sequentially filled (experimental)
300 - mandel.py (contributed by Stephen Phillips)
302 - length comparision (David Beach)
306 - switched to the new parser using pythons parser module
308 - removed, it all lives in the graph.data module now, while before it
309 was splitted into two separate modules
311 - not imported by default anymore
312 - obsolete warning when importing this module
316 - include missing c-files for optional extension modules
318 - fix unpaired BeginProcSet/EndProcSet in font enconding
321 - setup.py and distribution:
322 - allow customization of the extension modules built (via setup.cfg)
323 - disable building pykpathsea module by default
324 - more detailed description of install process in INSTALL
325 - provide more information and pointers to other files in README
326 - include example data files in distribution (suggested by Andrea Riciputi)
327 - force dvips to write ps files instead of printing them (suggested by Otto Tronarp)
328 - includ pyxfaq.pdf in distribution
330 - improved is-readable test for lfs files and pyx.def file
331 - explicitly quit (La)TeX in cleantmp (helps when quitting with <Ctrl>C)
332 - showwaitfortex implemented following a suggestion by Fernando Perez
333 (waitfortex is increased to 60 seconds now)
334 - support of TeX extension --ipc for reading dvi results while TeX keeps running
335 - configurable font mapping files (via pyxrc or parameter of the texrunner constructor)
336 - markers to get access to positions within TeX expressions
337 - fix: allow for e-tex in texmessage.start (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
338 - fix: print warning at syntax errors in font mapping file and continue (cf. bug #795271)
339 - remove limitation on number of fonts in dvi file
340 - added native virtual font support
341 - dvicopy support not needed anymore (it is still available, but obsolete and
342 removed from the documentation)
343 - do not include too many glyphs in the eps file
344 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
345 - dvifile module (NEW):
346 - separated from the text module
347 - dvifile class returns standard pyx canvas instances on readpage
349 - removed manualpart and partitioners mix keyword
350 - results of the splitting at "=" in graph.function were not stripped
351 - skip title=None in key (cf. bug #821284), properly align a single key entry
352 - another (the last?!) axis redesign: axispos -> class of its own
353 - some axispos name have changed slightly (zeroline -> zeropath etc.)
354 - tick/data-vmin/vmax removed
357 - minor enhancements in exponentionaltexter
358 - axes alongs paths including a set of examples
359 - mixing a partitioner and manual ticks by two distinct keyword arguments now
360 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
361 - part -> parter renaming
363 - stroke, fill, draw, set and insert do no longer accept variable length argument lists but
364 an attribute list as last argument
365 - stroke and fill now support trafos (TODO: documentation)
366 - uppercase version of a4, a3, ... paperformats
368 - new module for loading PyX configuration information
370 - automatically import main modules into pyx namespace as suggested by Fernando
373 - check for sorting of parameter list passed to path.split method
374 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
376 - contains decoratedpath and decorators from canvas module
377 - all predefined decorators are instances now (deco.stroked is thus ok) and
378 attributes have to be passed explicitely, e.g., deco.earrow.small(attrs=color.rgb.red)
379 and deco.stroked([color.rgb.blue])
380 - style module (NEW):
381 - contains all line- and fillstyles which formerly had been defined in the canvas module
382 - dash now supports relative dash lengths (as suggested by Otto Tronarp)
384 - fixed incorrect handling of - (for instance -x**2 was not negative)
386 - contents have been moved to the (obsolete) tex module, which was the only user anyhow, and
387 the module itself was removed
389 - new fallback solution in pure python
390 - bugfix: pyxadapt.h needs to open files binary under Windows (reported by Gary Pajer)
392 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
394 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
398 - "in" to "inch" in paperformats
400 - fix pyx.def hack occuring whenever \ProcessOptions* was used by a package
402 - implement different file formats for Python version of module
404 - python fallback solution should behave the same way as c extension module (closes SF bug #799182 reported
405 by Marcus Mendenhall)
407 - added "connector" to __all__
411 - separate texter out of the axispainter
412 - axis/partitioner/texter/painter/axispos redesign & interfaces
413 - tick.text is renamed to tick.label
414 - ticks and labels are renamed to tickpos/tickdist and labelpos/labeldist in partitioning
415 - ticks can be used in the part to mix a partitioner with some manual ticks
416 -> manualpart and the mix technique is not needed anymore
417 (both things are still available and working, but they will be removed in the future)
418 - _ensurefrac is implemented inside the frac constructor now; initialization is possible by:
419 - a (enum, denom) tuple now (previously there were two arguments)
420 - a string (as before via _ensurefrac)
421 - exponential strings are allowed as well (e.g. "1e10" etc.)
422 - a float (precision is determined by floatprecision -- the number of decimal places)
427 - reset() method for the texrunner
428 - automatic restart of a TeX instance with the same preamble (preamble changes are not possible)
429 - texmessage.loadfd for accepting font description loading
430 - don't bail out on width_index == 0, but mark character invalid instead
432 - support for specials; pyxgraphics flag
433 - support psfonts.map: font names, font encodings
434 - bugfix \def\ProcessPyXBox -> \long\def\ProcessPyXBox
435 - improved lfs handling
437 - full documentation via doc strings
439 - some preliminary version
441 - multiple radii (up to two per point) and softnesses
442 - ensurecenter added --- do we always force the creation of a center?
444 - lentopar methods added including some tests
446 - new parameter bbox allows to override the bounding box of the eps file
450 - derive TFMError and DVIError correctly from exceptions.Exception
451 - close files and pipes, if they are no longer used (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
452 - remove DeprecationWarning in Python 2.3 (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
454 - correct rounding algorithm (Michael Schindler)
456 - refer to the graphs texrunner instead of the defaulttexrunner (cf. #728209)
457 - rounding towards zero bugfix in autolinpart
458 - log axis range rating bugfix
460 - addarg bugs (#738724)
462 - fix mixing up of height and width in scale calculation
463 - and various other fixer here and there
467 - fix bug in dvi rule code where width was height
468 - fix preamble attribute checking bug
469 - fix texmessage.load pattern search instead of pattern match bug
470 - renamed vbox to parbox (was done in 0.3 partially only)
472 - allow for tuples in arguments of the data class
473 - convenience: exchanged order of named parameters in data.data
475 - convenience: allow for part=None in _axis (base of linaxis and logaxis)
477 - added a latex example (requested)
478 - added a attributechange example (requested)
479 - added back the integral example (requested; prior PyX 0.3 it was part of the user manual)
480 - small change in vector example (allow for the access to the texrunner)
481 - examples included in source distribution
483 - correct arrow template calculation for very short paths
487 - new easy to use example generation (will hopefully lead to nice examples)
489 - new module for handling of convex polygons (taken out of the graph module)
491 - new module containing a collection of helper functions (taken out of the graph module)
492 - moved the attrlist into helper -- as plain functions; attrlist becomes obsolete
494 - new module: a new and preferable integration of TeX/LaTeX
496 - strip glyphs from pfa/pfb-fonts
497 - there is a C implementation taken from pdftex
498 - fallback solution via an external program (pfb2pfa)
500 - (partial) C binding to libkpathsea
501 - fallback solution via an external program (kpsewhich)
503 - removed some code duplication (various axis painters)
504 - use text module instead of the obsolete tex module
505 - allow for tailing zeros of automatic generated labels
506 - allow for missing data in bar graphs -> skipmissing parameter
507 - remove the support for variables given as keyword arguments in data constructor
508 - use context instead of extern for extern variables and functions
509 - graph keys; titles in data/function/etc.
511 - new classes for visual and width lengths, aliases for user length (u_pt = pt)
512 - all length classes have now by default a quantifier 1 (instead of 0), such that,
513 for instance, 5*unit.t_cm() == unit.t_cm(5)
514 - default_unit now has to be set via unit.set. For instance: unit.set(defaultunit="m").
515 - convert_to is now an internal function, which moreover does not longer accept tuples or lists
517 - new class _bbox (the former bbox) which accepts points in the constructor. This is used
518 for internal purposes.
519 - the bbox constructor now accepts user lengths in the constructor.
520 - new methods height, width, top, bottom, left, right
521 - ll & ur ???, what about ul and lr -> ugly!
522 - enlarge (was enhance) now allows selective enlargement to the left, bottom, right and top
523 - output HiResBoundingBox
524 - never reduce bbox upon output
526 - new constructor signature, more in line with rest of PyX:
527 epsfile(x, y, filename, **additional_args)
529 - removed additional column support in addcolumn; removed _addcolumn
530 - line reduction for datafile like the every parameter in gnuplot
532 - new way of PS prolog generation that writes only necessary parts
533 - added support for patterns
534 - canvas.insert() now supports arguments
535 - bbox of canvas can be specified in writetofile command explicitely
536 - writetofile does not return self anymore
537 - arrow template now uses intersection with circle to get size right
538 (as per a suggestion by Michael Schindler)
541 - changed the handling of extern functions and all variables
543 - gradient renamed to palette
545 - problem with sizefile on windows (tex module)
546 - allow for strings in graphxy's width and height; allow for width only (graph module)
547 - disable rating for labelattrs equals None (graph module)
548 - defaultstyle selection, when a list of data is provided to the plot function (graph module)
549 - traverse when adding functions as arguments of operators (mathtree module)
550 - allow for extern functions in addcolumn (data module)
551 - just one common place for the version number
552 - fix incorrect exception name MathError (path module)
553 - prevent double return of intersections for closed sub paths
558 - allow division of length by numbers
560 - new transformation: slant
561 - renamed all trafo methods to use the participle (i.e translate->translated)
562 - the name of all trafo subclasses are verbs (i.e. translation->translate)
564 - mark class renamed to symbol
565 - (text-)box distance measurement
566 - moved axis partitioning to axis and axis painter
567 - automatic axis partitioning (now officially: general cleanup, distance measurement, documentation)
569 - baraxis, baraxispainter, and bar style
571 - previously named datafile module
572 - class "_datafile" renamed to class "data"
573 - class sectionfile added
576 - extern variables and functions (support in graph.function, graph.paramfunction and data.data)
579 - deferred to Version 0.3
580 - running TeX "on the fly" is basically implemented
582 - transformation bug (#624068, trafo module)
583 - canvas transformations (canvas module???)
584 - textbox alignment (graph module)
585 - return linewidth upon calculation with linewidths (unit module)
586 - allow column number variables with several digits
588 - british and american spellings (color module, graph module)
589 - small logo modifications