[PyX-devel] ANN: PyX 0.15 released

[Joerg L. <jo...@us...>]

Hi,

We're very happy to announce the release of PyX 0.15!

This release introduces a new text engine UnicodeEngine, which enables
simple typesetting with Type1 fonts without using TeX/LaTeX. The graph
axis texters have been adjusted to work on the UnicodeEngine, as well.
The exponential and mixed graph axis texters have been merged into the
new default texter.

A couple of bug fixes are included in this release, as well. See the
full list of changes below.

Furthermore, PyX' home has been moved to https://pyx-project.org/.
The source code repository has been converted to git and is now hosted
at https://github.com/pyx-project/pyx.

Happy PyXing,

        André and Jörg

------------------------------------------------------------------------

0.15 (2019/07/14):
  - text module:
    - introduce UnicodeEngine
    - MultiEngineText to express combined text data for TeX based
      engines and the new UnicodeEngine
    - Text and StackedText classes for simple typesetting operations on
      UnicodeEngine text
    - rename TexRunner and LatexRunner to TexEngine and LatexEngine
    - rename cls argument of text.set to engine (with fallback and
      deprecation warning in place)
    - improve error handling when input cannot be encoded by texenc
    - add support for virtual fonts in virtual fonts
    - font maps: treat font files without extension as Type 1 (to
      prevent warnings occuring especially with Minion or Libertine
      fonts)
    - fix UnicodeDecodeError for invalid character responses by 
      TeX/LaTeX (reported by Gert Ingold)
  - new examples:
    - non-ASCII TeX encoding
  - t1font:
    - use integers in auto-guessed font descriptors to prevent an
      issue in pdftex (reported by Michael Hartmann)
    - fix typo: ItalicAngles -> ItalicAngle (thanks to Ross Moore)
  - graph.axis.texter:
    - unify exponential and mixed texter to default texter
    - use MultiEngineText in all texters (decimal, default, factional)
  - pdfwriter, pswriter, svgwriter:
    - removed underscore in  PS and PDF and SVG writer options
      strip_fonts, text_as_path, mesh_as_bitmap,
      mesh_as_bitmap_resolution
      (new: stripfonts, textaspath, meshasbitmap and
      meshasbitmapresolution) to prevent ambiquity with write_
      prefixes.
    - Fix color output in SVG (reported by Michael Hartmann)
  - deformer:
    - Fix parallel deformer for empty normsubpaths (thanks to 
      Michael J Gruber)
  - graph.style:
    - Use RGBA instead of ARGB in the bitmap fallback of
      graph.style.density
      Fix saving SVG as supported modes are limited (thanks to
      Michael J Gruber)
  - pattern:
    - inject default linewidth (reported by Michael J Gruber)
  - version control:
    - switched to git on 2018/07/16 with main repository on GitHub