PGF and TikZ -- Graphic systems for TeX

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: version 0.97 (beta)

Notes:
This is hopefully the last version before version 1.00. There is a feature freeze for this version, so version 1.00 will look like this version plus some bugfixes.

This version should be pretty stable, I use it without problems. Users are invited to try this version and report problems.

There are four major new features since 0.96:

- TikZ can now do trees reasonably well.
- pgf now can draw so-called snakes. This includes coils and braces.
- pgf now has layering. This is mainly useful for fancy backgrounds.
- pgf now has pretty good svg support. The html/svg version of the manual is a demonstration of how good (or bad) that works.

The svg-support is still a bit of a proof of concept since text inside pictures is only tolerated if it is *really* simple. This is mainly a problem of the svg specification.

Happy tikzing,
Till


Changes:
2005-09-08 Till Tantau <tantua@users.sourceforget.net>

	Version 0.97:

	- Reorganised directory structure of documentation.
	- Added tree mechanism.
	- Added snake mechanism.
	- Added layer mechanism.
	- Added new shapes: cross out, strike out, forbidden sign.
	- Added some more documentation.
	- Added "none" drawing and filling colors.
	- Added pgflibrarytikzbackgrounds.
	- Changed syntax of \pgfqbox.
	- Changed syntax of several \pgfsys@xxxx commands.
	- Added SVG support / a tex4ht backend. (Complicated text
  	  inside svg graphics is not supported well, but that's mainly
	  a shortcoming of the svg specification.)