Tioga_README in tioga-1.7 vs Tioga_README in tioga-1.8
- old
+ new
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-This is the README for the Tioga kernel, version 1.6, March 17, 2007.
+This is the README for the Tioga kernel, version 1.8, April 4, 2008.
- Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007 Bill Paxton
+ Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Bill Paxton
+ Copyright (C) 2007, 2008 Vincent Fourmond, Taro Sato
This file is part of Tioga.
Tioga is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Library Public License as published
@@ -12,53 +13,39 @@
Tioga is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU Library General Public License for more details.
- You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public LicenseD
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
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 >>
- Version 1.7 adds an option in legends for markers without any line;
-just call save_legend_info with 'line_type' => 'None' in addition to
-the marker information. It is also now possible to give a 'legend' argument
-to show_marker. The value of the arg can be either a legend dictionary
-or simply the legend text in which case defaults will be supplied for
-the rest. There is an example of this in samples/plots.rb
-in the Legend_Outside figure.
+ Version 1.8 is essentially a cleanup/bug fix release. Tioga now compiles
+with hardly any warnings, thanks to the work by Taro Sato. show_axis can now
+take a hash instead of a simple location, and can draw axes basically
+anywhere. See the axes_fun function in samples/plots/plots.rb and
+show_axis documentation. Few bugs were fixed, in particular the
+position of ticks with ticks_inside/ticks_outside, and the
+installation via Rubygems which was broken for such a long time we are
+ashamed of it.
- It saw a very significant improvement in that you can now query
-the exact size of a text typeset by LaTeX, with the function text_size. Please
-have a look at its documentation, and at the Text_size and
-Text_size_with_rotation samples in samples/figures/figures.rb.
- The code base was quite moved around so as to facilitate work on a
-Python version that would share as much code as possible with the Ruby one;
-this should not bring user-visible changes (apart, maybe, from compilation
-problems, but we hope not).
-
- Some bug fixes, including potential stack overflows (unprotected
-snprintfs), and some new methods of Function. Dvector.fancy_read has been
-reimplemented in C and benchmarked: it should be around three times faster
-than before.
-
- Code should now compile cleanly with Ruby 1.9.
-
<< 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 copy some
files to the ruby directory. On the Mac, this probably means you need to do
the whole thing with a 'sudo'. For Linux, you may have to become root.
Once you've taken care of that, just run the QUICK_INSTALL script and
keep your fingers crossed.
- You now have the option to run HOME_INSTALL instead, which will install the files to
-your home directory (no root privileges needed). You just need to set your RUBYLIB
-environment variable as reminded at the end of the file.
+ You now have the option to run HOME_INSTALL instead, which will
+install the files to your home directory (no root privileges
+needed). You just need to set your RUBYLIB environment variable as
+reminded at the end of the file.
Please check that there are 0 failures and 0 errors at the end of the test.
Then, in your favorite PDF previewer, open the newly created 'tests/Icon_Test.pdf'
and compare it to the prebuilt 'samples/Icon.pdf'. They should be very similar!
If it all seems to be working, go directly to the << Documentation >> section below.
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<< What's old >>
Here are the old release messages:
+
+
+--------------------------
+
+ Version 1.7 adds an option in legends for markers without any line;
+just call save_legend_info with 'line_type' => 'None' in addition to
+the marker information. It is also now possible to give a 'legend' argument
+to show_marker. The value of the arg can be either a legend dictionary
+or simply the legend text in which case defaults will be supplied for
+the rest. There is an example of this in samples/plots.rb
+in the Legend_Outside figure.
+
+ It saw a very significant improvement in that you can now query
+the exact size of a text typeset by LaTeX, with the function text_size. Please
+have a look at its documentation, and at the Text_size and
+Text_size_with_rotation samples in samples/figures/figures.rb.
+
+ The code base was quite moved around so as to facilitate work on a
+Python version that would share as much code as possible with the Ruby one;
+this should not bring user-visible changes (apart, maybe, from compilation
+problems, but we hope not).
+
+ Some bug fixes, including potential stack overflows (unprotected
+snprintfs), and some new methods of Function. Dvector.fancy_read has been
+reimplemented in C and benchmarked: it should be around three times faster
+than before.
+
+ Code should now compile cleanly with Ruby 1.9.
+
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