[Pyx-user] Announcement: PyX 0.4 released

[Andre W. <wo...@us...>]

Hi,

we're pround to announce the release of PyX 0.4. Find a list of
changes below.

Enjoy,


Jörg Lehmann, Michael Schindler, André Wobst



0.4 (2003/08/22):
  - graph module:
    - separate texter out of the axispainter
    - axis/partitioner/texter/painter/axispos redesign & interfaces
    - tick.text is renamed to tick.label
    - ticks and labels are renamed to tickpos/tickdist and labelpos/labeldist in partitioning
    - ticks can be used in the part to mix a partitioner with some manual ticks
      -> manualpart and the mix technique is not needed anymore
         (both things are still available and working, but they will be removed in the future)
    - _ensurefrac is implemented inside the frac constructor now; initialization is possible by:
      - a (enum, denom) tuple now (previously there were two arguments)
      - a string (as before via _ensurefrac)
      - exponential strings are allowed as well (e.g. "1e10" etc.)
      - a float (precision is determined by floatprecision -- the number of decimal places)
    - dense -> density
    - axis.maxworse
    - axis interface
  - text module:
    - reset() method for the texrunner
    - automatic restart of a TeX instance with the same preamble (preamble changes are not possible)
    - texmessage.loadfd for accepting font description loading
    - don't bail out on width_index == 0, but mark character invalid instead
    - dvicopy flag
    - support for specials; pyxgraphics flag
    - support psfonts.map: font names, font encodings
    - bugfix \def\ProcessPyXBox -> \long\def\ProcessPyXBox
    - improved lfs handling
  - data module:
    - full documentation via doc strings
  - connector module:
    - some preliminary version
  - box module:
    - multiple radii (up to two per point) and softnesses
    - ensurecenter added --- do we always force the creation of a center?
  - path module:
    - lentopar methods added including some tests
  - epsfile module:
    - new parameter bbox allows to override the bounding box of the eps file

  bugfixes:
  - text module:
    - derive TFMError and DVIError correctly from exceptions.Exception
    - close files and pipes, if they are no longer used (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
    - remove DeprecationWarning in Python 2.3 (thanks to Marcus Mendenhall)
  - box module:
    - correct rounding algorithm (Michael Schindler)
  - graph module:
    - refer to the graphs texrunner instead of the defaulttexrunner (cf. #728209)
    - rounding towards zero bugfix in autolinpart
    - log axis range rating bugfix
  - mathtree module:
    - addarg bugs (#738724)
  - epsfile module:
    - fix mixing up of height and width in scale calculation
  - and various other fixer here and there

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