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 - discuss reltransform: https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9137692&forum_id=23700
10 - add encoding; check whether encoding=ascii works well for the common existing cases
11 - we need output-specific map files (see Palatino example
12 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=14863643)
13 - write graphics driver for pgf.sty from LaTeX
14 - ignore "(Please type a command or say `\end')" in preamble method
15 - properly handle file names with spaces in (like "C:\program files\texmf\tex\latex\base\article.cls" in
18 - common bboxes for different graphs
19 - 3d graphs, circular graphs
20 - axis painter labelattrs=None + automatic axis partitioning leads to no valid partitioning
21 - when all titles are None, a graph key currently raises an exception
22 - translatecanvas should be the default in graph.style.symbol
23 - automatic scaling of y-axis according to subset of data shown on x-axis
24 - graph.style and graph.data modules
25 - fix docu of gridattrs functionality of axis painters
26 (how can one, e.g. draw a grid at the ticks and not at the subticks)
27 - make graph.style.symbol.diamond a graph.style.symbol instance (to be discussed)
29 - use csv module (new in 2.3)
30 - Check for "inf" and "nan" in datafiles.
31 (When plotted, the graph does not complain, but the output will be broken;
32 this depends on the plattform and is not only an issue within the graph system)
34 - add styles using curves instead of lines
36 - contructor should only take a texrunner keyword argument
38 - stroking of patterns does not work in PDF
39 - style and color module:
40 - support modification of existing styles via __call__
42 - ReusableStreamDecode?
43 - proper ASCII85Decode/HexDecode switch
45 - rewrite height, etc. using properties
47 - support single-character mode
49 - move helper path routines to some more generic place for paths?
50 - pdffile module needed (similar to epsfile)
52 - clearly distingish between readers and writers. dvifile, epsfile, etc. might
53 be renamed to dvireader, epsreader ...
54 - support gsave and grestore in some way to make context handling easier?
56 - support colorspace argument (like c.writeEPSfile("bla", colorspace="cmyk"))
57 - move pyx.def, lfs-files etc. into a new share directory
58 - write fakepattern.py which substitutes some of the pattern functionality using
60 - libkpathsea bindung:
61 - create a ctypes based binding to replace the extension module implementation in the long
65 - describe + vs << vs join
66 - more details in path constructor: allowed pathels, first pathel...
71 Changeable attributes should be explained at a central place.
73 - linealign and circlealign
74 - need to be redone anyway
76 styles: document what data name the styles accept (require). Try also to be more
77 userfriendly and not to describe immediately the internals of the implementation:
78 (see e.g. class.style.symbol)
79 - document interface to access tick positions
82 - add an epsfile example (suggested by Stathis Sideris)
83 - add a small example line on y="f($1)" in one of the plot examples
85 - add a plot data from list example
88 - describe creation and modification (inplace and ``modify by new'') of
94 - renamed: palette->gradient, functionpalette->functiongradient, linearpalette->lineargradient
95 - new class palette representing a discrete ordered list of colors
98 - painter: don't insert axis title twice (thanks to Tim Gray for reporting this problem)
99 - parter: extend the logarithmic parter to calculate automatic partitions for huge ranges
100 (TODO: documentation of the new autoexponent parameter) (suggested by Dominic Ford)
102 - optional textdx/textdy columns to the text style added
103 - arrowpos parameter to the arrow style added
105 - doplot method (to be called with a plotitem) to alter the plotitem order etc. (TODO: documentation)
107 - add multichangeattr to perform a select on different changeable attributes
108 depending on the selects total number
110 - don't change order of attrs passed to canvas constructor in place
114 - most important changes (to be included in the release notes):
115 - mathtree removal (warning about integer division)
116 - barpos style does not build tuples for nestedbar axes automatically
117 - new deformers for path manipulation (for smoothing, shifting, ... paths)
119 - new framework for font handling
120 - own implementation of type1 font stripping (old pdftex code fragments removed)
121 - complete type1 font command representation and glyph path extraction from font programs
122 - t1code extension module (C version of de-/encoding routines used in Type 1 font files)
126 - mathtree removal: more flexibility due to true python expressions
127 - default style instantiation bug (reported by Gregory Novak)
129 - automatic subaxis tuple creation removed in barpos (create tuples
130 in expressions now; subnames argument removed since it became pointless;
131 adujstaxis became independend from selectstyle for all styles now)
132 - remove multiple painting of frompath in histogram and barpos styles
133 - fix missing attribute select when using a bar style once only (reported by Alan Isaac)
134 - fix histograms for negative y-coordinates (reported by Dominic Ford, bug #1492548)
135 - fix histogram to stroke lines to the baseline for steps=0 when two subsequent values are equal
136 - add key method for histogram style (reported by Hagemann, bug #1371554)
137 - implement a changebar style
138 - graph, axis and style module:
139 - support for mutual linking of axes between graphs
140 - new domethods dependency handling
141 - separate axis range calculation from dolayout
142 - axis.parter module:
143 - linear and logarthmic partitioners always need lists now
144 (as it was documented all the time; renamed tickdist/labeldist
145 to tickdists/labeldists; renamed tickpos/labelpos to
146 tickpreexps/labelpreexps)
148 - patch to tickpos and vtickpos (reported by Wojciech Smigaj, cf. patch #1286112)
149 - anchoredpathaxis added (suggested by Wojciech Smigaj)
150 - properly handle range rating on inversed axis (reported by Dominic Ford, cf. bug #1461513)
151 - invalidate axis partitions with a single label only by the distance rater
152 - fallback (with warning) to linear partitioner on a small logarithmics scale
154 - patch to allow for tickattrs=None (reported by Wojciech Smigaj, cf. patch #1286116)
156 - transparency support (PDF only)
157 - conversion between colorspaces
158 - nonlinear palettes added
159 - the former palette must now be initialized as linearpalette
160 - remove min and max arguments of palettes
162 - improve escapestring to handle all ascii characters
163 - correct vshift when text size is modified by a text.size instance
164 - recover from exceptions (reported by Alan Isaac)
165 - handle missing italic angle information in tfm for pdf output (reported by Brett Calcott)
166 - allow for .def and .fd files in texmessage.loaddef (new name for
167 texmessage.loadfd, which was restricted to .fd files)
169 - correct closepath (do not invalidate currentpoint but set it to the
170 beginning of the current subpath); structural rework of pathitems
171 - calculate real bboxes for Bezier curves
172 - fix intersection due to non-linear parametrization of bezier curves
173 - add rotate methods to path, normpath, normsubpath, and normsubpathitems
174 - add flushskippedline to normsubpath
175 - add arclentoparam to normsubpath and normsubpathitems
176 - path is no longer a canvasitem
177 - reduce number of parameters of outputPS/outputPDF methods (do not pass context and registry)
179 - contains normpath, normsubpath and normpathparam which have originally
180 been in the path module
181 - return "invalid" for certain path operations when the curve "speed" is
182 below a certain threshold
183 - normpath is no longer a canvasitem
184 - reduce number of parameters of outputPS/outputPDF methods (do not pass context and registry)
186 - rewritten smoothed to make use of the subnormpath facilities
187 - rewritten parallel for arbitrary paths
189 - add basic text decorator
190 - allow arrows at arbitrary positions along the path
192 - boxdists parameter need to be a list/tuple of two items now
193 - changed the orientation of the angle parameters
195 - renamed _apply to apply_pt
196 - introduce _epsilon for checking the singularity of a trafo
198 - use rectclip instead of clip to remove the clipping path from the
199 PostScript stack, which otherwise might create strange effects for
200 certain PostScript files (reported by Gert Ingold)
202 - silently ignore TrueType fonts in font mapping files (reported by Gabriel Vasseur)
204 - accept [ and ] as separators in encoding files (reported by Mojca Miklavec, cf. bug #1429524)
206 - remove registerPS/registerPDF in favour of registering resourcing during the outputPS/outputPDF run
207 - move bbox handling to registry
208 - rename outputPS/outputPDF -> processPS/processPDF
209 - remove set method of canvas
210 - add a pipeGS method to directly pass the PyX output to ghostscript
211 - allow file instances as parameter of the writeXXXfile methods (feature request #1419658 by Jason Pratt)
213 - allow file instances as parameter of the writeXXXfile methods (feature request #1419658 by Jason Pratt)
215 - make rellength the default for dash styles
217 - switched to subversion on 2006/03/09
221 - fix bug in postscript deco code for stroking only attributes
223 - fix multicurveto._normalized
224 - fix path.paramtoarclen and path.paramtoarclen_pt
225 - remove unused method-local function
226 - fix linestyle rellength in PostScript
227 - correction to the rounding problems in circles (reported by Uwe Fabricius)
231 - issue a warning when not using a stroke color for patterns
233 - postpone PDFfontdescriptor information, since it raises an error on certain
234 fonts even when PostScript output was requested (reported by Gert Ingold)
235 - remove spurious spaces when checking for empty texmessages
237 - caching in fallback to lower system call bottleneck
239 - add missing writePSfile wrapper
240 - add *args to writeEPSfile and writePDFfile wrappers
242 - writebbox option to write bbox information (disabled by default)
243 even when a paper format is specified (PS and PDF writers only)
244 - use arclen in spring example
246 - use pdf graphic files for pdf version of the manual
247 - use PyX to create tipa fallbacks for FAQ
248 - correct description regarding the manual in the README file
252 - changed requirements to python 2.1 or newer:
253 - nested scopes are needed without fallback solution by the path module
254 (at other places fallback solutions for missing nested scopes are missing as well)
255 - use warning module for warnings
257 - path parameters and argument handling
258 - the arct to arc/arcn conversion (needed for bbox calculation and for conversion into
259 normpath) has been fixed
260 - document module: new
261 - container classes for document and pages
262 - document.paperformat class (strings are deprecated)
264 - writeEPSfile wraps a canvas in a single page document and performs the output
268 - completely rewritten: support for fonts and patterns has been added
269 - pswriter module: new
270 - separate PS output from canvas
271 - new signature of outputPS methods: writer and context are passed as additional
274 - allow selection on zero range palette (reported by Francisco Borges, cf. bug #1116257)
275 - prolog module: removed due to code reorganisation
277 - modifications on __init__.py in graph and axis subdirectories to
278 make "from pyx.graph import *" working as expected
280 - addontop added to stackedbarpos
281 - column -> columnname renaming where appropriate
282 - histogram style added
284 - function needs explicit variable definition (implicit variable definition is deprecated)
285 - column names are inherited by data.data() except when copy=0;
286 unused columns are silently ignored now
287 - dynamic function data on a logarithmic axis uses isinstance check now
288 (although it removes the only (mis)use of axis.inverse, it is a
289 temporary solution only)
291 - extend graph keys to allow for several columns
292 - axis data handling refactoring:
293 - introcuded an axis positioner (module graph.axis.positioner)
294 - introduced anchoredaxis to make axis data and positioning local to a graph
295 - linkedaxis is a special version of anchoredaxis and is generic
296 (it uses the new linkpainter provided by an axis)
297 - unification of split and bar axes;
298 removed some black magic in baraxis in favor of a nestedbar axis
299 - x linked to x2 etc. is now possible
300 - axis.inverse was removed (the only place it was (mis)used was by a function)
302 - allow to transform axis after layout
303 - [xy]axisat arguments in the constructor to easily move [xy]-axes
304 to a position defined the orthogonal axis
305 - remove axispos (use the axis dictionary now, since it now contains
306 anchored axis instances and those have shortcuts for the axis positioner
309 - tfm->dvi conversion rounding bugfix
310 - fix parsing of empty strings ("") in fontmap files (reported by John Owens, bug #1218983)
312 - support for halign of boxes and content of boxes (see halign example)
313 - take units xscale into account in parbox
314 - messageparser for replaced fontsizes: Warning -> implemented by texmessage.fontwarning
315 - messageparser for size differences at the end: Warning not Exception -> implemented by texmessage.fontwarning
316 - messageparser for overfull/underfull vbox/hbox: Warning not Exception -> implemented by texmessage.boxwarning
317 - dvicopy flag removed
318 - allow argument of set to be None
319 - rename nomathmode and nophantom to clearmathmode and clearphantom
320 - texmessagepattern for easy creation of simple TeX message parsers
321 - allow long file names in file checking TeX message parsers
322 - no newline removal to not disturbe TeX messages when reporting errors
323 - reworked documentation to use the python documentation standards
325 - linewidth is no longer a unit.length subclass but expects a such as first argument
327 - correct EOL handling while reading DSC's (reported by Markus Meyer)
328 - pattern module: new
329 - moved canvas.pattern to its own module together with the new PDFpattern class
330 - add some default patterns: hatched and crosshatched
332 - improve the smoothing deformer
333 - add a parallel deformer
335 - the very old tex module finally got removed completely
337 - a simple converter from dvi to EPS/PS/PDF files (dviconvert.py) has been added
338 - a simple imagine to EPS/PS/PDF converter (imgconvert.py) has been added
339 - a simple dvitype.py has been added
340 - update address of FSF all over the place
345 - EPS header fixed (reported by Russell Lang, cf. bug #1065099)
347 - use CURDIR instead of PWD (reported by David M. Cooke, bug #1070285)
349 - support windows line endings (patch by Hans-Andreas Engel, cf. bug #1071160)
351 - line attributes handling fixed (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
352 - fix typos in predefined symbols (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
353 - cut column name list at the max. number of columns (reported by Arnd Baecker)
355 - add INDEX and README files to distribution
356 - new errorbar and julia example
358 - pdf snippets for tipa based phonetic transliterations
363 - new module for inclusion of bitmap images
365 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
366 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
368 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
369 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
370 - enlarge was misspelled as enlarged
371 - renamed _bbox -> bbox_pt
372 - new bbox method center, which returns the coordinates of the center
374 - enlarge and enlarged do no longer interprete unqualified lengths as
377 - unit.cm, unit.t_cm, etc. are no longer sub classes but instances
379 - never convert implicitly into visual/width, etc. lengths (this is more
380 about usage of the unit module in various other modules) (TODO: update
382 - support for string initialization removed
383 - support for initialisation with other length removed
384 - lengths can now be divided by other lengths (as suggested by Michael Gruber
385 and Magnus Lie Hetland)
387 - postpone reading of fontmap files until TeX/LaTeX is started
388 - sign of font number in dvifile (reported by Michael Gruber)
391 - added new classes page and document for multipage PostScript output
392 - apply deformers (instead of trafos) in draw method
394 - decrease interval for dotted and dash-dotted lines for better visual
396 - setup.py and distribution:
397 - create siteconfig on install to store positions of the shared data
400 - graph style + data reorganization
401 - modularization of the graph styles by separating data handling and drawing tasks
402 - several graph styles can now be combined together
403 - graph data can internally now combine different data sources
404 (by that, some nasty side effects could have been removed)
405 - enum -> num renaming
406 - allow for horizontally and vertically centered graph key alignment and a key background
407 - fix bug that graph was not finished automatically when a bbox was specified
408 manually (reported by David Barton)
410 - pathel -> pathitem, etc. renaming
411 - methods accepting a parameter value / arc length now also allow the user to
412 pass a tuple (subpath, param) / (subpath, arclen)
413 - normpath constructor no longer accepts a path or normpath as argument but only a list
414 of normsubpaths. Use the new normpath method of the path instead to construct a normpath
416 - normsubpath can now deal with short (i.e. shorter than epsilon) segments correctly
417 - the intersect and split methods of normpath and normsubpath have been completely rewritten and
418 now take the accuracy epsilon correctly into account. Note that for a closed subpath the
419 split function now returns the segment containing the closing point as first element
420 in the result list (before, it was returned as last element).
421 - normsubpathitems and normsubpath now implement much more methods also provided by
422 path and normpath instances
423 - normpath.append no longer accepts pathitems but only normsubpaths
424 - deformer module: new
425 - moved cycloid and smoothed from deco into deformer
427 - handle "BoundingBox: (atend)" (cf. bug #945621 reported by Jim Boyle)
428 - kpsearch option to search for file using the kpathsea library (contributed by Michael Gruber)
430 - PSCmd and PSOp are now joined in a new class canvasitem
432 - decorated path no longer allows modification of its path
433 - new method excluderange which allows to remove certain parameter ranges from the stroked path
434 - additional canvas provided by decorated path is now called ornaments
435 - constriction=None now indicates an arrowhead without constriction
437 - trafos are now deformers
439 - a bunch of bargraph examples have been added
444 - fix errorbar range adjustment
445 - fix empty tick lists bug (reported by Marko Vendelin, cf. bug #977323)
446 - graph/style module:
447 - symbolline drawing order in graph key (cf. bug #990687)
449 - access to builtin list (reported by Marcus Mendenhall, cf. bug #1042458)
454 - fix drawing with background
455 - fix insertion of a zero length path when the whole line is outside
456 the valid axis range (reported by Marko Vendelin)
458 - include source for faq and manual
459 - distribute the pdf instead of postscript (manual, faq, examples)
464 - fixed title=None + graph key issue reported by Gabriel Vasseur
465 - graph.axis.painter.plain -> graph.axis.painter.regular
466 (as it was in parts of the documentation already)
467 - changeable-gridattrs-become-None-bug fixed
468 - graph style cutting outside lines (double-)fixed
472 - fixes missing install of the graph and axis directories introduced in 0.6
473 - some minor updates to the faq
478 - reorganisation of the graph structure finished (there might be some
479 small pending issues, but the basic restructuring is done with this release):
480 - graph splitted into several modules in pyx/graph and pyx/graph/axis
481 - painters are using the new attribute scheme including changeable
483 - graph styles rewrite
485 - axis zeropath feature has been removed
486 - mergelabels removed; linpart doesn't have a label argument anymore
487 - names and texts removed from baraxis
488 - iteration on graph style, when it is used several times in the same graph
489 - symbols + lines -> symbollines; symbols do not allow setting lineattrs,
490 and lines not symbolattrs
491 - manual line clipping (do not include unneeded line segments when the
492 axis range is set manually etc.)
493 - automatic file key titles
494 - graph.data now also includes the old data module
495 - data.list adds (by default) a line number like data.file
496 (thus regular columns are counted from 1)
498 - added new pathels multilineto_pt and multicurveto which allows to specify
499 a list of points and can thus be much more efficient
500 - internal methods return coordinates in pts
501 - arclentoparam returns only parameters not total length
502 - added path.arclength_pt, path.at_pt, path.begin_pt, path.end_pt (and
503 correspondingly for normpath)
504 - complete refactoring of the normpath class: normpaths now consist of
505 normsubpaths which themselves consist of normlines and normcurves This is
506 much more convenient for any routines working with normpaths.
507 - reversing of closed sub paths does not change the first point of the sub
509 - renamed: arclength -> arclen
510 - renamed: lentopar -> arclentoparam
511 - renamed: glue -> joined
512 - normpath now supports join, the in-place version of joined
513 - path and normpath method raise exception instead of returning None
514 when parameter is out of range
515 - the accuracy epsilon can now only be specified in normpath and normsubpath
516 constructor and no longer in arguments of path and normpath methods
517 - negative parameters are no longer supported in path and normpath methods
518 - path and normpath methods which accept parameter value param now
519 alternatively accept an arc length
523 - arrow heads are no longer stroked (as suggested by Magnus Lie Hetland)
525 - writeEPSfile deprecates writetofile
526 - internally, write methods are renamed in outputPS
527 - canvas constructor no longer accepts variable argument list but
528 expects a list of attrs as first argument (defaulting to []) and
529 a texrunner as second argument (defaulting to text.defaulttexrunner)
530 - set, draw, stroke and fill no longer return self, i.e., the canvas, but None
532 - added inplace add (__iadd__), enlarge and transform methods
533 - callers use inplace add where possible now (yielding a considerable
535 - "undefined" corners of bounding boxes are no longer supported which makes
536 the bounding box operations much more efficient.
538 - renamed _xxx -> xxx_pt
540 - removed showbbox argument of epsfile class
542 - default handling of texmessages as in the new attribute scheme
543 - multiple insert bug fixed
544 - made left, right, width, height, depth information available (x length
545 not taking into account box transformations)
546 - ignore tex message "Please type a command or say `\\end'"
547 - added textboxes that are sequentially filled (experimental)
549 - mandel.py (contributed by Stephen Phillips)
551 - length comparision (David Beach)
555 - switched to the new parser using pythons parser module
557 - removed, it all lives in the graph.data module now, while before it
558 was splitted into two separate modules
560 - not imported by default anymore
561 - obsolete warning when importing this module
565 - include missing c-files for optional extension modules
567 - fix unpaired BeginProcSet/EndProcSet in font enconding
570 - setup.py and distribution:
571 - allow customization of the extension modules built (via setup.cfg)
572 - disable building pykpathsea module by default
573 - more detailed description of install process in INSTALL
574 - provide more information and pointers to other files in README
575 - include example data files in distribution (suggested by Andrea Riciputi)
576 - force dvips to write ps files instead of printing them (suggested by Otto Tronarp)
577 - includ pyxfaq.pdf in distribution
579 - improved is-readable test for lfs files and pyx.def file
580 - explicitly quit (La)TeX in cleantmp (helps when quitting with <Ctrl>C)
581 - showwaitfortex implemented following a suggestion by Fernando Perez
582 (waitfortex is increased to 60 seconds now)
583 - support of TeX extension --ipc for reading dvi results while TeX keeps running
584 - configurable font mapping files (via pyxrc or parameter of the texrunner constructor)
585 - markers to get access to positions within TeX expressions
586 - fix: allow for e-tex in texmessage.start (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
587 - fix: print warning at syntax errors in font mapping file and continue (cf. bug #795271)
588 - remove limitation on number of fonts in dvi file
589 - added native virtual font support
590 - dvicopy support not needed anymore (it is still available, but obsolete and
591 removed from the documentation)
592 - do not include too many glyphs in the eps file
593 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
594 - dvifile module (NEW):
595 - separated from the text module
596 - dvifile class returns standard pyx canvas instances on readpage
598 - removed manualpart and partitioners mix keyword
599 - results of the splitting at "=" in graph.function were not stripped
600 - skip title=None in key (cf. bug #821284), properly align a single key entry
601 - another (the last?!) axis redesign: axispos -> class of its own
602 - some axispos name have changed slightly (zeroline -> zeropath etc.)
603 - tick/data-vmin/vmax removed
606 - minor enhancements in exponentionaltexter
607 - axes alongs paths including a set of examples
608 - mixing a partitioner and manual ticks by two distinct keyword arguments now
609 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
610 - part -> parter renaming
612 - stroke, fill, draw, set and insert do no longer accept variable length argument lists but
613 an attribute list as last argument
614 - stroke and fill now support trafos (TODO: documentation)
615 - uppercase version of a4, a3, ... paperformats
617 - new module for loading PyX configuration information
619 - automatically import main modules into pyx namespace as suggested by Fernando
622 - check for sorting of parameter list passed to path.split method
623 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
625 - contains decoratedpath and decorators from canvas module
626 - all predefined decorators are instances now (deco.stroked is thus ok) and
627 attributes have to be passed explicitely, e.g., deco.earrow.small(attrs=color.rgb.red)
628 and deco.stroked([color.rgb.blue])
629 - style module (NEW):
630 - contains all line- and fillstyles which formerly had been defined in the canvas module
631 - dash now supports relative dash lengths (as suggested by Otto Tronarp)
633 - fixed incorrect handling of - (for instance -x**2 was not negative)
635 - contents have been moved to the (obsolete) tex module, which was the only user anyhow, and
636 the module itself was removed
638 - new fallback solution in pure python
639 - bugfix: pyxadapt.h needs to open files binary under Windows (reported by Gary Pajer)
641 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
643 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
647 - "in" to "inch" in paperformats
649 - fix pyx.def hack occuring whenever \ProcessOptions* was used by a package
651 - implement different file formats for Python version of module
653 - python fallback solution should behave the same way as c extension module (closes SF bug #799182 reported
654 by Marcus Mendenhall)
656 - added "connector" to __all__
660 - separate texter out of the axispainter
661 - axis/partitioner/texter/painter/axispos redesign & interfaces
662 - tick.text is renamed to tick.label
663 - ticks and labels are renamed to tickpos/tickdist and labelpos/labeldist in partitioning
664 - ticks can be used in the part to mix a partitioner with some manual ticks
665 -> manualpart and the mix technique is not needed anymore
666 (both things are still available and working, but they will be removed in the future)
667 - _ensurefrac is implemented inside the frac constructor now; initialization is possible by:
668 - a (enum, denom) tuple now (previously there were two arguments)
669 - a string (as before via _ensurefrac)
670 - exponential strings are allowed as well (e.g. "1e10" etc.)
671 - a float (precision is determined by floatprecision -- the number of decimal places)
676 - reset() method for the texrunner
677 - automatic restart of a TeX instance with the same preamble (preamble changes are not possible)
678 - texmessage.loadfd for accepting font description loading
679 - don't bail out on width_index == 0, but mark character invalid instead
681 - support for specials; pyxgraphics flag
682 - support psfonts.map: font names, font encodings
683 - bugfix \def\ProcessPyXBox -> \long\def\ProcessPyXBox
684 - improved lfs handling
686 - full documentation via doc strings
688 - some preliminary version
690 - multiple radii (up to two per point) and softnesses
691 - ensurecenter added --- do we always force the creation of a center?
693 - lentopar methods added including some tests
695 - new parameter bbox allows to override the bounding box of the eps file
699 - derive TFMError and DVIError correctly from exceptions.Exception
700 - close files and pipes, if they are no longer used (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
701 - remove DeprecationWarning in Python 2.3 (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
703 - correct rounding algorithm (Michael Schindler)
705 - refer to the graphs texrunner instead of the defaulttexrunner (cf. #728209)
706 - rounding towards zero bugfix in autolinpart
707 - log axis range rating bugfix
709 - addarg bugs (#738724)
711 - fix mixing up of height and width in scale calculation
712 - and various other fixer here and there
716 - fix bug in dvi rule code where width was height
717 - fix preamble attribute checking bug
718 - fix texmessage.load pattern search instead of pattern match bug
719 - renamed vbox to parbox (was done in 0.3 partially only)
721 - allow for tuples in arguments of the data class
722 - convenience: exchanged order of named parameters in data.data
724 - convenience: allow for part=None in _axis (base of linaxis and logaxis)
726 - added a latex example (requested)
727 - added a attributechange example (requested)
728 - added back the integral example (requested; prior PyX 0.3 it was part of the user manual)
729 - small change in vector example (allow for the access to the texrunner)
730 - examples included in source distribution
732 - correct arrow template calculation for very short paths
736 - new easy to use example generation (will hopefully lead to nice examples)
738 - new module for handling of convex polygons (taken out of the graph module)
740 - new module containing a collection of helper functions (taken out of the graph module)
741 - moved the attrlist into helper -- as plain functions; attrlist becomes obsolete
743 - new module: a new and preferable integration of TeX/LaTeX
745 - strip glyphs from pfa/pfb-fonts
746 - there is a C implementation taken from pdftex
747 - fallback solution via an external program (pfb2pfa)
749 - (partial) C binding to libkpathsea
750 - fallback solution via an external program (kpsewhich)
752 - removed some code duplication (various axis painters)
753 - use text module instead of the obsolete tex module
754 - allow for tailing zeros of automatic generated labels
755 - allow for missing data in bar graphs -> skipmissing parameter
756 - remove the support for variables given as keyword arguments in data constructor
757 - use context instead of extern for extern variables and functions
758 - graph keys; titles in data/function/etc.
760 - new classes for visual and width lengths, aliases for user length (u_pt = pt)
761 - all length classes have now by default a quantifier 1 (instead of 0), such that,
762 for instance, 5*unit.t_cm() == unit.t_cm(5)
763 - default_unit now has to be set via unit.set. For instance: unit.set(defaultunit="m").
764 - convert_to is now an internal function, which moreover does not longer accept tuples or lists
766 - new class _bbox (the former bbox) which accepts points in the constructor. This is used
767 for internal purposes.
768 - the bbox constructor now accepts user lengths in the constructor.
769 - new methods height, width, top, bottom, left, right
770 - ll & ur ???, what about ul and lr -> ugly!
771 - enlarge (was enhance) now allows selective enlargement to the left, bottom, right and top
772 - output HiResBoundingBox
773 - never reduce bbox upon output
775 - new constructor signature, more in line with rest of PyX:
776 epsfile(x, y, filename, **additional_args)
778 - removed additional column support in addcolumn; removed _addcolumn
779 - line reduction for datafile like the every parameter in gnuplot
781 - new way of PS prolog generation that writes only necessary parts
782 - added support for patterns
783 - canvas.insert() now supports arguments
784 - bbox of canvas can be specified in writetofile command explicitely
785 - writetofile does not return self anymore
786 - arrow template now uses intersection with circle to get size right
787 (as per a suggestion by Michael Schindler)
790 - changed the handling of extern functions and all variables
792 - gradient renamed to palette
794 - problem with sizefile on windows (tex module)
795 - allow for strings in graphxy's width and height; allow for width only (graph module)
796 - disable rating for labelattrs equals None (graph module)
797 - defaultstyle selection, when a list of data is provided to the plot function (graph module)
798 - traverse when adding functions as arguments of operators (mathtree module)
799 - allow for extern functions in addcolumn (data module)
800 - just one common place for the version number
801 - fix incorrect exception name MathError (path module)
802 - prevent double return of intersections for closed sub paths
807 - allow division of length by numbers
809 - new transformation: slant
810 - renamed all trafo methods to use the participle (i.e translate->translated)
811 - the name of all trafo subclasses are verbs (i.e. translation->translate)
813 - mark class renamed to symbol
814 - (text-)box distance measurement
815 - moved axis partitioning to axis and axis painter
816 - automatic axis partitioning (now officially: general cleanup, distance measurement, documentation)
818 - baraxis, baraxispainter, and bar style
820 - previously named datafile module
821 - class "_datafile" renamed to class "data"
822 - class sectionfile added
825 - extern variables and functions (support in graph.function, graph.paramfunction and data.data)
828 - deferred to Version 0.3
829 - running TeX "on the fly" is basically implemented
831 - transformation bug (#624068, trafo module)
832 - canvas transformations (canvas module???)
833 - textbox alignment (graph module)
834 - return linewidth upon calculation with linewidths (unit module)
835 - allow column number variables with several digits
837 - british and american spellings (color module, graph module)
838 - small logo modifications