package mlpost-lablgtk

0.9 (January 19, 2021)

• fixes floating-point error in extremum computation

• special points are kept in empty from box

• migrate to cairo2 and dune

• added experimental export to pgf

• added Arrows.mk_classic

• added Helpers.box_point_line, point_box_line, box_loop, box_label_loop

0.8.2 (March 10, 2017)

• mlpost does not complain anymore about Metapost errors

• ocamlopt is called with warning 58 disabled

• fixed installation with OCaml 4.04

• new module [Triangle] to draw tree-like, triangular shapes

• :exclamation: (internal) Misc.call_cmd now does print output of the called program directly, instead of returning it as a string

• :exclamation: module Generate has been removed

0.8.1 (April 26th 2010)

• configure: store absolute paths of programs

• configure: fixed META file

• doc: documentation for contribs

• contrib lablgtk: background setting possible and function auto_aspect

0.8.0 (April 13th, 2010)

• :exclamation: ocaml >= 3.10.1 is required now

• :exclamation: externalimage work only with png image

• :exclamation: module Color: the definitions of the following colors have changed: lightblue, green, lightgreen, orange, lightcyan, purple, lightyellow These colors are now compatible to HTML/CSS and X11 definitions

• :exclamation: Box: Box.tabularl did modify the input boxes, now it leaves them unchanged (reported by Julien Signoles)

• contrib Mlpost_lablgtk : define a gtk widget to display mlpost figures It also allow to easily create an interface to interact with an mlpost figures

• contrib Mlpost_dot : Use graphviz (dot) to place picture, box, ... make contrib && make install-contrib mlpost -contrib dot [...]

• module Real_plot: Plot function from float to float. It can use logarithmic scale.

• module Color: new function hsv to create a color from hsv colorspace and color_gen to generate different colors using hsv colorspace

• concrete computations are now available without the Cairo library

• option -ps with -cairo

• adding Concrete.baseline

• Num: new units em, ex

• Bugfix: "make install" with ocamlfind (reported by Julien Signoles)

• Bugfix: Concrete does not complain about being unsupported for the following functions: set_verbosity; set_prelude, set_prelude2, set_t1disasm

• Bugfix: Don't use "tracingchoices"

• Bugfix #411: correct definition of objects used in Path.subpath

• metapost errors are printed (this should rarely occur)

• each call of mpost are done in separate and temporary directories

0.7.4 (October 20th, 2009)

• Mlpost tool : Fix compilation with ocamlbuild

0.7.3 (October 13th, 2009)

• Fix installation without ocamlfind and without ocamlbuild

0.7.2 (October 9th, 2009)

• :exclamation: -classic-display is not an option of mlpost tool anymore (use -v instead)

• :exclamation: Change in the signature of Cairost.emit_cairo

• Fix the -compile-name option with ocamlbuild

• ocamlfind remove/install is used if ocamlfind is present

• The backend Concrete output informations only with the verbose option

• Radar: fixed size of bullets

• Helpers: the functions for boxes have a new optional argument [within] to give a box in which the arguments will be searched

• Box: new functions [set_{post,pre}_draw]

• :exclamation: Box: [get_name] now returns a string option

• Tree.Simple: alignment options for [node]

• Box: optional argument dash

0.7.1 (July 24th, 2009)

• Fix for Performance bug when shifting boxes

0.7 (July 23rd, 2009)

• :exclamation: add Point.draw and Path.draw (alias of Command.draw) which can mask Command.draw in case of an open Point after an open Command

• :exclamation: Command.draw_arrow becomes Arrow.simple

• :exclamation: Arrow.draw: ~pos becomes ~anchor, new ~pos is point on path

• :exclamation: Arrow.draw: now gives the same result by default as Arrow.simple (former Command.draw_arrow)

• :exclamation: Arrow.draw2 becomes Arrow.point_to_point

• :exclamation: Mlpost tool: -pdf now the default; use -ps to produce .1 files

• :exclamation: Mlpost tool: erases all generated intermediate files on success

• New experimental backend using Cairo; it permits output in PS, PDF, SVG and X11; use it with commandline option -cairo. It is intended to deliver the same results as the old metapost backend. Please send a bug report if it is not the case

• A module Concrete which permits to compute concrete values of mlpost objects, e.g. the float value corresponding to an object of type Num.t , the concrete point { x : float; y : float } corresponding to a Point.t, and so on

• A better tree drawing algorithm (module Tree)

• new function Tree.nodel to add labels to tree edges

• "Smart" paths to construct a path by giving only a sequence of directions (module Path)

• Histograms and Radar diagrams (modules Hist and Radar)

• The type Picture.t now is equal to the type Command.t (no more conversion needed)

• module Box: each box has a name by default; use Box.sub to retrieve a box with the same name inside another

• New optional argument sep of Path.strip to strip both ends of a path; used in Tree, Box.cpath, and Helpers

• New position constructors North, South, Upperleft to improve upon Top, `Bot etc, but the old variants are still there

0.6 (February 4th, 2009)

• :exclamation: "open Mlpost" is not added to input files any more - users have to add by themselves

• :exclamation: the type Command.figure becomes Command.t

• inclusion of external images (png, jpg etc)

• transformations on boxes

• Box.{grid,gridl,gridi}: new options hpadding, vpadding, stroke, pen

• additional options for many functions

• corrections of some small bugs in box calculations

• A function in the API to scan a TeX file for the prelude

0.5 (Octobre 20, 2008, first public release)

• new option -native to use native compilation, useful for complicated pictures

0.3

• new module Pos to place lists (arrays, trees)

• :exclamation: Num.f function removed

• new commandline arguments -v, -eps

• :exclamation: The functions in the Shapes module now build objects of type Shapes.t instead of Path.t

• :exclamation: In Diag, one can now specify more (and different) types of boxes for nodes

0.2 (July 22nd, 2008)

• Box: no more use of boxes.mp, replaced by Ocaml code

• License: LGPL updated to version 2.1

• Num: t is now an abstract datatype

• Moved repository to a trunk/branches style

• Subversion repository updated to schema version 5

0.1

• first release of Mlpost