5 - make dash length available
7 - repair PDF generation with unincluded standard fonts (currently broken)
8 - SlantFont & Co support
9 - keep an eye on PEP 324 (popen 5): it could make the texrunner much easier
10 - discuss reltransform: https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9137692&forum_id=23700
11 - add encoding; check whether encoding=ascii works well for the common existing cases
12 - write graphics driver for pgf.sty from LaTeX
13 - ignore "(Please type a command or say `\end')" in preamble method
14 - properly handle file names with spaces in (like "C:\program files\texmf\tex\latex\base\article.cls" in
17 - common bboxes for different graphs
18 - 3d graphs, circular graphs
19 - axis painter labelattrs=None + automatic axis partitioning leads to no valid partitioning
20 - when all titles are None, a graph key currently raises an exception
21 - translatecanvas should be the default in graph.style.symbol
22 - automatic scaling of y-axis according to subset of data shown on x-axis
23 - graph.axis.timeaxis.timetick must not override datetime.datetime __init__ method (since datetime.datetime
24 instances are immutable like ints)
25 - graph.style and graph.data modules
26 - fix docu of gridattrs functionality of axis painters
27 (how can one, e.g. draw a grid at the ticks and not at the subticks)
28 - make graph.style.symbol.diamond a graph.style.symbol instance (to be discussed)
30 - use csv module (new in 2.3)
31 - Check for "inf" and "nan" in datafiles.
32 (When plotted, the graph does not complain, but the output will be broken;
33 this depends on the plattform and is not only an issue within the graph system)
35 - add styles using curves instead of lines
36 - graph.texter module:
37 - rename period argument of decimal texters to recurring_decimal or something similar (as pointed out
40 - contructor should only take a texrunner keyword argument
42 - stroking of patterns does not work in PDF
43 - style and color module:
44 - support modification of existing styles via __call__
46 - ReusableStreamDecode?
47 - proper ASCII85Decode/HexDecode switch
48 - Support for transparent bitmaps?
50 - rewrite height, etc. using properties
52 - support single-character mode
53 - fix problem reported by Gert Ingold: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20090323081817.GA34112%40physik.uni-augsburg.de&forum_name=pyx-user
55 - move helper path routines to some more generic place for paths?
56 - pdffile module needed (similar to epsfile)
58 - clearly distingish between readers and writers. dvifile, epsfile, etc. might
59 be renamed to dvireader, epsreader ...
60 - support gsave and grestore in some way to make context handling easier?
62 - support colorspace argument (like c.writeEPSfile("bla", colorspace="cmyk"))
63 - move pyx.def, lfs-files etc. into a new share directory
64 - write fakepattern.py which substitutes some of the pattern functionality using
66 - libkpathsea bindung:
67 - create a ctypes based binding to replace the extension module implementation in the long
71 - describe + vs << vs join
72 - more details in path constructor: allowed pathels, first pathel...
77 Changeable attributes should be explained at a central place.
79 - linealign and circlealign
80 - need to be redone anyway
82 styles: document what data name the styles accept (require). Try also to be more
83 userfriendly and not to describe immediately the internals of the implementation:
84 (see e.g. class.style.symbol)
85 - document interface to access tick positions
88 - add an epsfile example (suggested by Stathis Sideris)
89 - add a small example line on y="f($1)" in one of the plot examples
93 - describe creation and modification (inplace and ``modify by new'') of
98 - font and dvi modules:
99 - major reorganization
100 - TeX mapping files are a property of the writer now (TODO: documentation)
101 By that the pdfwriter now uses pdftex.map instead of psfonts.map
102 (It's also possible to pass a fontmap to a texrunners text method to use
103 different mappings within a single output file)
104 - support for font matrices (afm) for Type1 fonts
105 (using fonts without a metrics is still supported, but properly issues
107 - interface for basic TeX-less text output
108 - new PS and PDF writer options: strip_fonts, text_as_path, mesh_as_bitmap,
109 mesh_as_bitmap_resolution (TODO: documentation)
111 - graphxyz: fix position of z4 axis
112 - fallbackrange for axes with vanishing range
113 - dokeyitem method (to be called with a plotitem) to alter the key order
114 - doplot() was renamed to doplotitem(), dodata() was renamed to doplot()
115 to have similar naming conventions like for the graph key
116 - axis painter: properly rotate axis titles when ticks are not othorgonal
117 to the axis (reported by Christian Delfosse)
118 - canvas and document modules:
119 - auto-guess output filename from the script filename
120 - add ciecolor flag and input type to the pipeGS method of canvas
122 - psfontmaps and pdffontmaps config options (TODO: documentation)
123 - config option for format warnings
125 - fix two bugs in the read pipe of the texrunner (thanks to
126 Laurence Tratt and Eric Faurot)
127 - fix "<" token handling in mapping file parser (thanks to Matthew West)
128 - fix start message parse error in MiKTeX (thanks to Wojciech Jaskowski)
129 - fix rigid aux file checking (thanks to Clayton E. Myers)
131 - implement style.fillrule
133 - add support for transparent bitmaps (in postscript stencil masking only)
139 - graphxyz for 3d graphs with parallel and central projection
140 - doplot method (to be called with a plotitem) to alter the plotitem order etc.
142 - new surface style for 3d graphs (colored surfaces are functional
143 (and useful!) for 2d graphs as well)
144 - new grid style for 3d graphs
146 - optional textdx/textdy columns to the text style added
147 - arrowpos parameter to the arrow style added
148 - bugfix: fromvalue axis range adjustment in histogram style
149 - bugfix: axis range adjustment in range style
151 - painter: don't insert axis title twice (thanks to Tim Gray for reporting this problem)
152 - parter: extend the logarithmic parter to calculate automatic partitions for huge ranges
153 (TODO: documentation of the new autoexponent parameter) (suggested by Dominic Ford)
154 - fix: range rating was not taken into account due in the 0.9 release
156 - list class was renamed to points; deprecation warning added
157 for instance creation, but inheritance from list failes
160 - internal helper module for efficient handling of triangular colored meshs
162 - renamed: palette->gradient, functionpalette->functiongradient, linearpalette->lineargradient
163 - new class palette representing a discrete ordered list of colors
164 - support transparency for filling/stroking in pdf separately
165 - transparency support for postscript as available by means of a proprietary
166 ghostscript extension (for ps2pdf)
168 - add multichangeattr to perform a select on different changeable attributes
169 depending on the selects total number
172 - add missing glyph traversal in t1seacs updatepath
174 - support zero-length normsubpaths
176 - don't change order of attrs passed to canvas constructor in place
177 - added __truediv__ methods according to PEP 238
181 - most important changes (to be included in the release notes):
182 - mathtree removal (warning about integer division)
183 - barpos style does not build tuples for nestedbar axes automatically
184 - new deformers for path manipulation (for smoothing, shifting, ... paths)
186 - new framework for font handling
187 - own implementation of type1 font stripping (old pdftex code fragments removed)
188 - complete type1 font command representation and glyph path extraction from font programs
189 - t1code extension module (C version of de-/encoding routines used in Type 1 font files)
193 - mathtree removal: more flexibility due to true python expressions
194 - default style instantiation bug (reported by Gregory Novak)
196 - automatic subaxis tuple creation removed in barpos (create tuples
197 in expressions now; subnames argument removed since it became pointless;
198 adujstaxis became independend from selectstyle for all styles now)
199 - remove multiple painting of frompath in histogram and barpos styles
200 - fix missing attribute select when using a bar style once only (reported by Alan Isaac)
201 - fix histograms for negative y-coordinates (reported by Dominic Ford, bug #1492548)
202 - fix histogram to stroke lines to the baseline for steps=0 when two subsequent values are equal
203 - add key method for histogram style (reported by Hagemann, bug #1371554)
204 - implement a changebar style
205 - graph, axis and style module:
206 - support for mutual linking of axes between graphs
207 - new domethods dependency handling
208 - separate axis range calculation from dolayout
209 - axis.parter module:
210 - linear and logarthmic partitioners always need lists now
211 (as it was documented all the time; renamed tickdist/labeldist
212 to tickdists/labeldists; renamed tickpos/labelpos to
213 tickpreexps/labelpreexps)
215 - patch to tickpos and vtickpos (reported by Wojciech Smigaj, cf. patch #1286112)
216 - anchoredpathaxis added (suggested by Wojciech Smigaj)
217 - properly handle range rating on inversed axis (reported by Dominic Ford, cf. bug #1461513)
218 - invalidate axis partitions with a single label only by the distance rater
219 - fallback (with warning) to linear partitioner on a small logarithmics scale
221 - patch to allow for tickattrs=None (reported by Wojciech Smigaj, cf. patch #1286116)
223 - transparency support (PDF only)
224 - conversion between colorspaces
225 - nonlinear palettes added
226 - the former palette must now be initialized as linearpalette
227 - remove min and max arguments of palettes
229 - improve escapestring to handle all ascii characters
230 - correct vshift when text size is modified by a text.size instance
231 - recover from exceptions (reported by Alan Isaac)
232 - handle missing italic angle information in tfm for pdf output (reported by Brett Calcott)
233 - allow for .def and .fd files in texmessage.loaddef (new name for
234 texmessage.loadfd, which was restricted to .fd files)
236 - correct closepath (do not invalidate currentpoint but set it to the
237 beginning of the current subpath); structural rework of pathitems
238 - calculate real bboxes for Bezier curves
239 - fix intersection due to non-linear parametrization of bezier curves
240 - add rotate methods to path, normpath, normsubpath, and normsubpathitems
241 - add flushskippedline to normsubpath
242 - add arclentoparam to normsubpath and normsubpathitems
243 - path is no longer a canvasitem
244 - reduce number of parameters of outputPS/outputPDF methods (do not pass context and registry)
246 - contains normpath, normsubpath and normpathparam which have originally
247 been in the path module
248 - return "invalid" for certain path operations when the curve "speed" is
249 below a certain threshold
250 - normpath is no longer a canvasitem
251 - reduce number of parameters of outputPS/outputPDF methods (do not pass context and registry)
253 - rewritten smoothed to make use of the subnormpath facilities
254 - rewritten parallel for arbitrary paths
256 - add basic text decorator
257 - allow arrows at arbitrary positions along the path
259 - boxdists parameter need to be a list/tuple of two items now
260 - changed the orientation of the angle parameters
262 - renamed _apply to apply_pt
263 - introduce _epsilon for checking the singularity of a trafo
265 - use rectclip instead of clip to remove the clipping path from the
266 PostScript stack, which otherwise might create strange effects for
267 certain PostScript files (reported by Gert Ingold)
269 - silently ignore TrueType fonts in font mapping files (reported by Gabriel Vasseur)
271 - accept [ and ] as separators in encoding files (reported by Mojca Miklavec, cf. bug #1429524)
273 - remove registerPS/registerPDF in favour of registering resourcing during the outputPS/outputPDF run
274 - move bbox handling to registry
275 - rename outputPS/outputPDF -> processPS/processPDF
276 - remove set method of canvas
277 - add a pipeGS method to directly pass the PyX output to ghostscript
278 - allow file instances as parameter of the writeXXXfile methods (feature request #1419658 by Jason Pratt)
280 - allow file instances as parameter of the writeXXXfile methods (feature request #1419658 by Jason Pratt)
282 - make rellength the default for dash styles
284 - switched to subversion on 2006/03/09
288 - fix bug in postscript deco code for stroking only attributes
290 - fix multicurveto._normalized
291 - fix path.paramtoarclen and path.paramtoarclen_pt
292 - remove unused method-local function
293 - fix linestyle rellength in PostScript
294 - correction to the rounding problems in circles (reported by Uwe Fabricius)
298 - issue a warning when not using a stroke color for patterns
300 - postpone PDFfontdescriptor information, since it raises an error on certain
301 fonts even when PostScript output was requested (reported by Gert Ingold)
302 - remove spurious spaces when checking for empty texmessages
304 - caching in fallback to lower system call bottleneck
306 - add missing writePSfile wrapper
307 - add *args to writeEPSfile and writePDFfile wrappers
309 - writebbox option to write bbox information (disabled by default)
310 even when a paper format is specified (PS and PDF writers only)
311 - use arclen in spring example
313 - use pdf graphic files for pdf version of the manual
314 - use PyX to create tipa fallbacks for FAQ
315 - correct description regarding the manual in the README file
319 - changed requirements to python 2.1 or newer:
320 - nested scopes are needed without fallback solution by the path module
321 (at other places fallback solutions for missing nested scopes are missing as well)
322 - use warning module for warnings
324 - path parameters and argument handling
325 - the arct to arc/arcn conversion (needed for bbox calculation and for conversion into
326 normpath) has been fixed
327 - document module: new
328 - container classes for document and pages
329 - document.paperformat class (strings are deprecated)
331 - writeEPSfile wraps a canvas in a single page document and performs the output
335 - completely rewritten: support for fonts and patterns has been added
336 - pswriter module: new
337 - separate PS output from canvas
338 - new signature of outputPS methods: writer and context are passed as additional
341 - allow selection on zero range palette (reported by Francisco Borges, cf. bug #1116257)
342 - prolog module: removed due to code reorganisation
344 - modifications on __init__.py in graph and axis subdirectories to
345 make "from pyx.graph import *" working as expected
347 - addontop added to stackedbarpos
348 - column -> columnname renaming where appropriate
349 - histogram style added
351 - function needs explicit variable definition (implicit variable definition is deprecated)
352 - column names are inherited by data.data() except when copy=0;
353 unused columns are silently ignored now
354 - dynamic function data on a logarithmic axis uses isinstance check now
355 (although it removes the only (mis)use of axis.inverse, it is a
356 temporary solution only)
358 - extend graph keys to allow for several columns
359 - axis data handling refactoring:
360 - introcuded an axis positioner (module graph.axis.positioner)
361 - introduced anchoredaxis to make axis data and positioning local to a graph
362 - linkedaxis is a special version of anchoredaxis and is generic
363 (it uses the new linkpainter provided by an axis)
364 - unification of split and bar axes;
365 removed some black magic in baraxis in favor of a nestedbar axis
366 - x linked to x2 etc. is now possible
367 - axis.inverse was removed (the only place it was (mis)used was by a function)
369 - allow to transform axis after layout
370 - [xy]axisat arguments in the constructor to easily move [xy]-axes
371 to a position defined the orthogonal axis
372 - remove axispos (use the axis dictionary now, since it now contains
373 anchored axis instances and those have shortcuts for the axis positioner
376 - tfm->dvi conversion rounding bugfix
377 - fix parsing of empty strings ("") in fontmap files (reported by John Owens, bug #1218983)
379 - support for halign of boxes and content of boxes (see halign example)
380 - take units xscale into account in parbox
381 - messageparser for replaced fontsizes: Warning -> implemented by texmessage.fontwarning
382 - messageparser for size differences at the end: Warning not Exception -> implemented by texmessage.fontwarning
383 - messageparser for overfull/underfull vbox/hbox: Warning not Exception -> implemented by texmessage.boxwarning
384 - dvicopy flag removed
385 - allow argument of set to be None
386 - rename nomathmode and nophantom to clearmathmode and clearphantom
387 - texmessagepattern for easy creation of simple TeX message parsers
388 - allow long file names in file checking TeX message parsers
389 - no newline removal to not disturbe TeX messages when reporting errors
390 - reworked documentation to use the python documentation standards
392 - linewidth is no longer a unit.length subclass but expects a such as first argument
394 - correct EOL handling while reading DSC's (reported by Markus Meyer)
395 - pattern module: new
396 - moved canvas.pattern to its own module together with the new PDFpattern class
397 - add some default patterns: hatched and crosshatched
399 - improve the smoothing deformer
400 - add a parallel deformer
402 - the very old tex module finally got removed completely
404 - a simple converter from dvi to EPS/PS/PDF files (dviconvert.py) has been added
405 - a simple imagine to EPS/PS/PDF converter (imgconvert.py) has been added
406 - a simple dvitype.py has been added
407 - update address of FSF all over the place
412 - EPS header fixed (reported by Russell Lang, cf. bug #1065099)
414 - use CURDIR instead of PWD (reported by David M. Cooke, bug #1070285)
416 - support windows line endings (patch by Hans-Andreas Engel, cf. bug #1071160)
418 - line attributes handling fixed (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
419 - fix typos in predefined symbols (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
420 - cut column name list at the max. number of columns (reported by Arnd Baecker)
422 - add INDEX and README files to distribution
423 - new errorbar and julia example
425 - pdf snippets for tipa based phonetic transliterations
430 - new module for inclusion of bitmap images
432 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
433 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
435 - names of local and member variables now follow the naming convention of
436 having a _pt suffix when containing lengths in points
437 - enlarge was misspelled as enlarged
438 - renamed _bbox -> bbox_pt
439 - new bbox method center, which returns the coordinates of the center
441 - enlarge and enlarged do no longer interprete unqualified lengths as
444 - unit.cm, unit.t_cm, etc. are no longer sub classes but instances
446 - never convert implicitly into visual/width, etc. lengths (this is more
447 about usage of the unit module in various other modules) (TODO: update
449 - support for string initialization removed
450 - support for initialisation with other length removed
451 - lengths can now be divided by other lengths (as suggested by Michael Gruber
452 and Magnus Lie Hetland)
454 - postpone reading of fontmap files until TeX/LaTeX is started
455 - sign of font number in dvifile (reported by Michael Gruber)
458 - added new classes page and document for multipage PostScript output
459 - apply deformers (instead of trafos) in draw method
461 - decrease interval for dotted and dash-dotted lines for better visual
463 - setup.py and distribution:
464 - create siteconfig on install to store positions of the shared data
467 - graph style + data reorganization
468 - modularization of the graph styles by separating data handling and drawing tasks
469 - several graph styles can now be combined together
470 - graph data can internally now combine different data sources
471 (by that, some nasty side effects could have been removed)
472 - enum -> num renaming
473 - allow for horizontally and vertically centered graph key alignment and a key background
474 - fix bug that graph was not finished automatically when a bbox was specified
475 manually (reported by David Barton)
477 - pathel -> pathitem, etc. renaming
478 - methods accepting a parameter value / arc length now also allow the user to
479 pass a tuple (subpath, param) / (subpath, arclen)
480 - normpath constructor no longer accepts a path or normpath as argument but only a list
481 of normsubpaths. Use the new normpath method of the path instead to construct a normpath
483 - normsubpath can now deal with short (i.e. shorter than epsilon) segments correctly
484 - the intersect and split methods of normpath and normsubpath have been completely rewritten and
485 now take the accuracy epsilon correctly into account. Note that for a closed subpath the
486 split function now returns the segment containing the closing point as first element
487 in the result list (before, it was returned as last element).
488 - normsubpathitems and normsubpath now implement much more methods also provided by
489 path and normpath instances
490 - normpath.append no longer accepts pathitems but only normsubpaths
491 - deformer module: new
492 - moved cycloid and smoothed from deco into deformer
494 - handle "BoundingBox: (atend)" (cf. bug #945621 reported by Jim Boyle)
495 - kpsearch option to search for file using the kpathsea library (contributed by Michael Gruber)
497 - PSCmd and PSOp are now joined in a new class canvasitem
499 - decorated path no longer allows modification of its path
500 - new method excluderange which allows to remove certain parameter ranges from the stroked path
501 - additional canvas provided by decorated path is now called ornaments
502 - constriction=None now indicates an arrowhead without constriction
504 - trafos are now deformers
506 - a bunch of bargraph examples have been added
511 - fix errorbar range adjustment
512 - fix empty tick lists bug (reported by Marko Vendelin, cf. bug #977323)
513 - graph/style module:
514 - symbolline drawing order in graph key (cf. bug #990687)
516 - access to builtin list (reported by Marcus Mendenhall, cf. bug #1042458)
521 - fix drawing with background
522 - fix insertion of a zero length path when the whole line is outside
523 the valid axis range (reported by Marko Vendelin)
525 - include source for faq and manual
526 - distribute the pdf instead of postscript (manual, faq, examples)
531 - fixed title=None + graph key issue reported by Gabriel Vasseur
532 - graph.axis.painter.plain -> graph.axis.painter.regular
533 (as it was in parts of the documentation already)
534 - changeable-gridattrs-become-None-bug fixed
535 - graph style cutting outside lines (double-)fixed
539 - fixes missing install of the graph and axis directories introduced in 0.6
540 - some minor updates to the faq
545 - reorganisation of the graph structure finished (there might be some
546 small pending issues, but the basic restructuring is done with this release):
547 - graph splitted into several modules in pyx/graph and pyx/graph/axis
548 - painters are using the new attribute scheme including changeable
550 - graph styles rewrite
552 - axis zeropath feature has been removed
553 - mergelabels removed; linpart doesn't have a label argument anymore
554 - names and texts removed from baraxis
555 - iteration on graph style, when it is used several times in the same graph
556 - symbols + lines -> symbollines; symbols do not allow setting lineattrs,
557 and lines not symbolattrs
558 - manual line clipping (do not include unneeded line segments when the
559 axis range is set manually etc.)
560 - automatic file key titles
561 - graph.data now also includes the old data module
562 - data.list adds (by default) a line number like data.file
563 (thus regular columns are counted from 1)
565 - added new pathels multilineto_pt and multicurveto which allows to specify
566 a list of points and can thus be much more efficient
567 - internal methods return coordinates in pts
568 - arclentoparam returns only parameters not total length
569 - added path.arclength_pt, path.at_pt, path.begin_pt, path.end_pt (and
570 correspondingly for normpath)
571 - complete refactoring of the normpath class: normpaths now consist of
572 normsubpaths which themselves consist of normlines and normcurves This is
573 much more convenient for any routines working with normpaths.
574 - reversing of closed sub paths does not change the first point of the sub
576 - renamed: arclength -> arclen
577 - renamed: lentopar -> arclentoparam
578 - renamed: glue -> joined
579 - normpath now supports join, the in-place version of joined
580 - path and normpath method raise exception instead of returning None
581 when parameter is out of range
582 - the accuracy epsilon can now only be specified in normpath and normsubpath
583 constructor and no longer in arguments of path and normpath methods
584 - negative parameters are no longer supported in path and normpath methods
585 - path and normpath methods which accept parameter value param now
586 alternatively accept an arc length
590 - arrow heads are no longer stroked (as suggested by Magnus Lie Hetland)
592 - writeEPSfile deprecates writetofile
593 - internally, write methods are renamed in outputPS
594 - canvas constructor no longer accepts variable argument list but
595 expects a list of attrs as first argument (defaulting to []) and
596 a texrunner as second argument (defaulting to text.defaulttexrunner)
597 - set, draw, stroke and fill no longer return self, i.e., the canvas, but None
599 - added inplace add (__iadd__), enlarge and transform methods
600 - callers use inplace add where possible now (yielding a considerable
602 - "undefined" corners of bounding boxes are no longer supported which makes
603 the bounding box operations much more efficient.
605 - renamed _xxx -> xxx_pt
607 - removed showbbox argument of epsfile class
609 - default handling of texmessages as in the new attribute scheme
610 - multiple insert bug fixed
611 - made left, right, width, height, depth information available (x length
612 not taking into account box transformations)
613 - ignore tex message "Please type a command or say `\\end'"
614 - added textboxes that are sequentially filled (experimental)
616 - mandel.py (contributed by Stephen Phillips)
618 - length comparision (David Beach)
622 - switched to the new parser using pythons parser module
624 - removed, it all lives in the graph.data module now, while before it
625 was splitted into two separate modules
627 - not imported by default anymore
628 - obsolete warning when importing this module
632 - include missing c-files for optional extension modules
634 - fix unpaired BeginProcSet/EndProcSet in font enconding
637 - setup.py and distribution:
638 - allow customization of the extension modules built (via setup.cfg)
639 - disable building pykpathsea module by default
640 - more detailed description of install process in INSTALL
641 - provide more information and pointers to other files in README
642 - include example data files in distribution (suggested by Andrea Riciputi)
643 - force dvips to write ps files instead of printing them (suggested by Otto Tronarp)
644 - includ pyxfaq.pdf in distribution
646 - improved is-readable test for lfs files and pyx.def file
647 - explicitly quit (La)TeX in cleantmp (helps when quitting with <Ctrl>C)
648 - showwaitfortex implemented following a suggestion by Fernando Perez
649 (waitfortex is increased to 60 seconds now)
650 - support of TeX extension --ipc for reading dvi results while TeX keeps running
651 - configurable font mapping files (via pyxrc or parameter of the texrunner constructor)
652 - markers to get access to positions within TeX expressions
653 - fix: allow for e-tex in texmessage.start (reported by Andrea Riciputi)
654 - fix: print warning at syntax errors in font mapping file and continue (cf. bug #795271)
655 - remove limitation on number of fonts in dvi file
656 - added native virtual font support
657 - dvicopy support not needed anymore (it is still available, but obsolete and
658 removed from the documentation)
659 - do not include too many glyphs in the eps file
660 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
661 - dvifile module (NEW):
662 - separated from the text module
663 - dvifile class returns standard pyx canvas instances on readpage
665 - removed manualpart and partitioners mix keyword
666 - results of the splitting at "=" in graph.function were not stripped
667 - skip title=None in key (cf. bug #821284), properly align a single key entry
668 - another (the last?!) axis redesign: axispos -> class of its own
669 - some axispos name have changed slightly (zeroline -> zeropath etc.)
670 - tick/data-vmin/vmax removed
673 - minor enhancements in exponentionaltexter
674 - axes alongs paths including a set of examples
675 - mixing a partitioner and manual ticks by two distinct keyword arguments now
676 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
677 - part -> parter renaming
679 - stroke, fill, draw, set and insert do no longer accept variable length argument lists but
680 an attribute list as last argument
681 - stroke and fill now support trafos (TODO: documentation)
682 - uppercase version of a4, a3, ... paperformats
684 - new module for loading PyX configuration information
686 - automatically import main modules into pyx namespace as suggested by Fernando
689 - check for sorting of parameter list passed to path.split method
690 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
692 - contains decoratedpath and decorators from canvas module
693 - all predefined decorators are instances now (deco.stroked is thus ok) and
694 attributes have to be passed explicitely, e.g., deco.earrow.small(attrs=color.rgb.red)
695 and deco.stroked([color.rgb.blue])
696 - style module (NEW):
697 - contains all line- and fillstyles which formerly had been defined in the canvas module
698 - dash now supports relative dash lengths (as suggested by Otto Tronarp)
700 - fixed incorrect handling of - (for instance -x**2 was not negative)
702 - contents have been moved to the (obsolete) tex module, which was the only user anyhow, and
703 the module itself was removed
705 - new fallback solution in pure python
706 - bugfix: pyxadapt.h needs to open files binary under Windows (reported by Gary Pajer)
708 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
710 - _xxx -> xxx_pt renaming
714 - "in" to "inch" in paperformats
716 - fix pyx.def hack occuring whenever \ProcessOptions* was used by a package
718 - implement different file formats for Python version of module
720 - python fallback solution should behave the same way as c extension module (closes SF bug #799182 reported
721 by Marcus Mendenhall)
723 - added "connector" to __all__
727 - separate texter out of the axispainter
728 - axis/partitioner/texter/painter/axispos redesign & interfaces
729 - tick.text is renamed to tick.label
730 - ticks and labels are renamed to tickpos/tickdist and labelpos/labeldist in partitioning
731 - ticks can be used in the part to mix a partitioner with some manual ticks
732 -> manualpart and the mix technique is not needed anymore
733 (both things are still available and working, but they will be removed in the future)
734 - _ensurefrac is implemented inside the frac constructor now; initialization is possible by:
735 - a (enum, denom) tuple now (previously there were two arguments)
736 - a string (as before via _ensurefrac)
737 - exponential strings are allowed as well (e.g. "1e10" etc.)
738 - a float (precision is determined by floatprecision -- the number of decimal places)
743 - reset() method for the texrunner
744 - automatic restart of a TeX instance with the same preamble (preamble changes are not possible)
745 - texmessage.loadfd for accepting font description loading
746 - don't bail out on width_index == 0, but mark character invalid instead
748 - support for specials; pyxgraphics flag
749 - support psfonts.map: font names, font encodings
750 - bugfix \def\ProcessPyXBox -> \long\def\ProcessPyXBox
751 - improved lfs handling
753 - full documentation via doc strings
755 - some preliminary version
757 - multiple radii (up to two per point) and softnesses
758 - ensurecenter added --- do we always force the creation of a center?
760 - lentopar methods added including some tests
762 - new parameter bbox allows to override the bounding box of the eps file
766 - derive TFMError and DVIError correctly from exceptions.Exception
767 - close files and pipes, if they are no longer used (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
768 - remove DeprecationWarning in Python 2.3 (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
770 - correct rounding algorithm (Michael Schindler)
772 - refer to the graphs texrunner instead of the defaulttexrunner (cf. #728209)
773 - rounding towards zero bugfix in autolinpart
774 - log axis range rating bugfix
776 - addarg bugs (#738724)
778 - fix mixing up of height and width in scale calculation
779 - and various other fixer here and there
783 - fix bug in dvi rule code where width was height
784 - fix preamble attribute checking bug
785 - fix texmessage.load pattern search instead of pattern match bug
786 - renamed vbox to parbox (was done in 0.3 partially only)
788 - allow for tuples in arguments of the data class
789 - convenience: exchanged order of named parameters in data.data
791 - convenience: allow for part=None in _axis (base of linaxis and logaxis)
793 - added a latex example (requested)
794 - added a attributechange example (requested)
795 - added back the integral example (requested; prior PyX 0.3 it was part of the user manual)
796 - small change in vector example (allow for the access to the texrunner)
797 - examples included in source distribution
799 - correct arrow template calculation for very short paths
803 - new easy to use example generation (will hopefully lead to nice examples)
805 - new module for handling of convex polygons (taken out of the graph module)
807 - new module containing a collection of helper functions (taken out of the graph module)
808 - moved the attrlist into helper -- as plain functions; attrlist becomes obsolete
810 - new module: a new and preferable integration of TeX/LaTeX
812 - strip glyphs from pfa/pfb-fonts
813 - there is a C implementation taken from pdftex
814 - fallback solution via an external program (pfb2pfa)
816 - (partial) C binding to libkpathsea
817 - fallback solution via an external program (kpsewhich)
819 - removed some code duplication (various axis painters)
820 - use text module instead of the obsolete tex module
821 - allow for tailing zeros of automatic generated labels
822 - allow for missing data in bar graphs -> skipmissing parameter
823 - remove the support for variables given as keyword arguments in data constructor
824 - use context instead of extern for extern variables and functions
825 - graph keys; titles in data/function/etc.
827 - new classes for visual and width lengths, aliases for user length (u_pt = pt)
828 - all length classes have now by default a quantifier 1 (instead of 0), such that,
829 for instance, 5*unit.t_cm() == unit.t_cm(5)
830 - default_unit now has to be set via unit.set. For instance: unit.set(defaultunit="m").
831 - convert_to is now an internal function, which moreover does not longer accept tuples or lists
833 - new class _bbox (the former bbox) which accepts points in the constructor. This is used
834 for internal purposes.
835 - the bbox constructor now accepts user lengths in the constructor.
836 - new methods height, width, top, bottom, left, right
837 - ll & ur ???, what about ul and lr -> ugly!
838 - enlarge (was enhance) now allows selective enlargement to the left, bottom, right and top
839 - output HiResBoundingBox
840 - never reduce bbox upon output
842 - new constructor signature, more in line with rest of PyX:
843 epsfile(x, y, filename, **additional_args)
845 - removed additional column support in addcolumn; removed _addcolumn
846 - line reduction for datafile like the every parameter in gnuplot
848 - new way of PS prolog generation that writes only necessary parts
849 - added support for patterns
850 - canvas.insert() now supports arguments
851 - bbox of canvas can be specified in writetofile command explicitely
852 - writetofile does not return self anymore
853 - arrow template now uses intersection with circle to get size right
854 (as per a suggestion by Michael Schindler)
857 - changed the handling of extern functions and all variables
859 - gradient renamed to palette
861 - problem with sizefile on windows (tex module)
862 - allow for strings in graphxy's width and height; allow for width only (graph module)
863 - disable rating for labelattrs equals None (graph module)
864 - defaultstyle selection, when a list of data is provided to the plot function (graph module)
865 - traverse when adding functions as arguments of operators (mathtree module)
866 - allow for extern functions in addcolumn (data module)
867 - just one common place for the version number
868 - fix incorrect exception name MathError (path module)
869 - prevent double return of intersections for closed sub paths
874 - allow division of length by numbers
876 - new transformation: slant
877 - renamed all trafo methods to use the participle (i.e translate->translated)
878 - the name of all trafo subclasses are verbs (i.e. translation->translate)
880 - mark class renamed to symbol
881 - (text-)box distance measurement
882 - moved axis partitioning to axis and axis painter
883 - automatic axis partitioning (now officially: general cleanup, distance measurement, documentation)
885 - baraxis, baraxispainter, and bar style
887 - previously named datafile module
888 - class "_datafile" renamed to class "data"
889 - class sectionfile added
892 - extern variables and functions (support in graph.function, graph.paramfunction and data.data)
895 - deferred to Version 0.3
896 - running TeX "on the fly" is basically implemented
898 - transformation bug (#624068, trafo module)
899 - canvas transformations (canvas module???)
900 - textbox alignment (graph module)
901 - return linewidth upon calculation with linewidths (unit module)
902 - allow column number variables with several digits
904 - british and american spellings (color module, graph module)
905 - small logo modifications