Tioga_README in tioga-1.18 vs Tioga_README in tioga-1.19

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@@ -20,20 +20,16 @@ along with Tioga; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA << What's new >> - Tioga 1.18 brings in a few new features. First, Dvector.fancy_read -is now able to extract pure text columns. Second, a jpg_info function -has been added that read the width and height from within a JPEG file, -for use with show_image: you now don't have to know the image size -beforehand. A load_png function was added that relies on pdflatex to -read PNG files (except those with a custom palette). Feed the return -value of load_png to show_image. It is now possible to reuse an image -over and over again by saving its reference and using itagain.Finally, -more control over the number of pdflatex executions is now available. -There are also a couple of bug fixes. + Tioga 1.19 is essentially a bugfix release, but it brings in an +important new feature: the ability to customize the resolution of the +PDF file produced. Up until version 1.18, the resolution was always +1/10th of a postscript point, but from now on, you can change that by +giving the scaling factor (default 10, as before), as an argument to +FigureMaker.new. << Quick Installation of Tioga >> Are you feeling lucky? If so, try QUICK_INSTALL. This simply does the steps for you that are described below. The install needs to @@ -168,9 +164,21 @@ << What's old >> Here are the old release messages: + + Tioga 1.18 brings in a few new features. First, Dvector.fancy_read +is now able to extract pure text columns. Second, a jpg_info function +has been added that read the width and height from within a JPEG file, +for use with show_image: you now don't have to know the image size +beforehand. A load_png function was added that relies on pdflatex to +read PNG files (except those with a custom palette). Feed the return +value of load_png to show_image. It is now possible to reuse an image +over and over again by saving its reference and using itagain.Finally, +more control over the number of pdflatex executions is now available. +There are also a couple of bug fixes. + Tioga 1.17 provides all the necessary fixes to have it run on windows, so now we also support the Redmond operating system (works with the ProTeXt LaTeX distribution).