New features, changes and fixes in gnuplot version 4.2.6
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* NEW xterm tektronix emulation 'set term xterm'
* FIX 'set xtics mirror' didn't work if xtics were previously unset
* FIX off-by-one pixel bug in width of boxes with palette or rgb color
* FIX center rotation of 'set view equal xyz' mode at screen center
* FIX sanity-check time ranges for axes with timeformat
* FIX pslatex blacktext and broken format specifier
* FIX PostScript code points for Lcaron, lcaron in encoding cp1250
* CHANGE If a 2D plot uses a Z-based palette, then autoscale cbrange
* CHANGE aquaterm accepts "size xx,yy" with a comma
* CHANGE Remove the EXPERIMENTAL flag from the wxt terminal
* CHANGE Remove the EXPERIMENTAL flag from the x11 terminal binary polygon mode
pkgsrc changes: use NetBSD libedit where possible.
New features, changes and fixes in gnuplot version 4.2.5
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* NEW ./configure --with-readline=bsd to use libedit rather than libreadline
* NEW command line option -e "command list"
* NEW 'set xtics rangelimit' allows creation of range/frame plots
* NEW "set view equal_axes xy{z}" does for 3D what "set size square" does for 2D.
* CHANGE updated svg terminal driver (back-ported from 4.3 CVS branch)
* CHANGE fillstyle empty really is consistently empty (not fill-with-background)
* CHANGE warn that some options to 'set datafile binary' are not implemented
* CHANGE handling of custom palette when postscript mode is set to "monochrome"
* CHANGE allow Z axis label in 3D plots to be rotated
* CHANGE do not save or restore axis tick labels that were read from a data file
* FIX interpolatation for pm3d surfaces given by both z and colour coordinates
* FIX infinite loop if axis tick increment is on the order of machine precision
* FIX initialize x11 enhanced text mode to use most recently requested font
* FIX emf handling of enhanced text at non-zero angle
* FIX 3D plots with fixed zrange were clipping against xmax rather than zmax
* FIX handling of uninitialized variables in fit "via" command
* FIX pm3d depthorder was ignoring interpolation setting
* FIX assignment of fill patterns to boxes in columnstacked histograms
* FIX Reserve room for user tic labels even if the format for autoticks is ""
* FIX bug in 4.2.4 that gave twice the requested left/right margin width
New features, changes and fixes in gnuplot version 4.2.4
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* NEW add support for enhanced text mode in the emf terminal driver
* NEW builtin functions 'strftime' and 'strptime'
* NEW set absolute plot margins in screen coordinates
* NEW "nocontours" keyword for splot
* NEW "undefine foo" clears previously defined user variable foo
* NEW allow contouring of pm3d surfaces
* NEW allow color by z value ("palette z") in 2D plots
* NEW "pause mouse close" waits until the plot window is closed
* FIX The documentation says that "set size ratio" is ignored in 3D. Make it so.
* FIX Do not re-quantize time tics interval explicitly set by user
* FIX (gd post) don't segfault on very long font names
* FIX allow variable color from input file for "with boxes", "with vectors"
* FIX don't run off the end of "set format" commands
* FIX Fix discontinuity in piecewise approximation of inverse error function
* FIX discard out of range vectors in the bitmap terminals (pbm, epson, etc)
* FIX 2nd colour in the colour box for negative palette in postscript
* FIX insure palette is initialized before any objects are drawn
* FIX wxt terminal was not obeying "set palette maxcolors"
* FIX Histograms did not correctly honor 'set style user increment'
* FIX Avoid segfault if tic labels are requested from a non-existent data column
* FIX emf terminal - allow fractional linewidth (fixes 0-length dash problem)
* FIX post terminal - fix parsing error for palfuncparam
* FIX post terminal - escape {} chars in enhanced text mode
* FIX clip "splot with labels" against plot boundaries in 2D mode
* CHANGE try harder to autotitle columns in using specs with expressions
* CHANGE gd.trm: use dynamically-allocated TTF font names
* CHANGE x11: more finely sampled color palette for PM3D
* CHANGE cgm: switch to using web_color_rgbs; approximate RGB colors
* CHANGE fig: more point types, 4.2-style font and size syntax for "set term"
* CHANGE emf: separate dashlength option (don't use linewidth for dashlength)
* CHANGE stacked histograms grow upward for values > 0, downward for values < 0
* CHANGE 'pause mouse button1' (or button2) does not disable zooming
* CHANGE built-in readline tries to recognize <home> and <end> keys
changes:
* NEW options front and back to "set colorbox"
* NEW character encoding support for emf and pdf terminals
* NEW "format" keyword for "set tics" and "set {x|y|...}tics"
* NEW allow user to set colorbar label rotatation if the bar is vertical
+bugfixes
1.) Remove directory "share/gnuplot/4.2/PostScript" during deinstallation.
2.) Prevent installation of "share/texmf-local/tex/latex/gnuplot" if
LaTeX is available (because we don't want to depend on "tetex").
3.) Update package list of "gnuplot-nox11" for version 4.2.
Bump revision of both packages.
* New plot styles
o Histogram
o Label plots
o Image data
o Filled curves
o Vectors
* Input from binary data files
* New plot elements
o RGB colors
o Arbitrary rectangles
* String handling
o String and text data read from datafiles
o User-defined string variables, operators, and functions
* Macros
* Auto-layout of multiple plots on a page
* Internal variables
* New or revised terminal drivers
o wxt
o emf
o gif, jpeg, png
o postscript
o ai
o epslatex, pslatex, pstex
o windows
* Canvas size
Changes:
3.7.3
* Major: contributed code to re-add gamma, inverse normal, and
inverse error function
* Windows specific fixes, most visibly changing the 'pause' command
to avoid cpu hogging, and updated build procedures
* Improved metapost driver
* Make Linux driver work with devfs
* Numerous bugfixes backported from development version, see ChangeLog
* A large number of documentation misprints have been fixed
3.7.2
* Major: we have removed code that was labeled with a
non-commercial use clause. The effect is that this
removes the gamma, inverse normal, and inverse error
function from platforms that have no native
implementation.
* Support for BeOS
* New terminal drivers: emf (Enhanced Metafile Format),
epslatex, ggi (General Graphics Interface), pdf, svg
(W3C Scalable Vector Graphics)
* Updated png driver: web-friendly palette, transparent
images, explicit colour specification
* Updated HPGL driver: optional multi-pen support,
alternative plot sizes, variable font sizes
* Updated gnugraph driver: now requires GNU plotutils 2.2
or better
* Updated eepic driver: picture environment now scales with
"set size"
* Updated fig driver to fig file format 3.2
* Updated tkcanvas driver
* Fix font size option in pslatex driver
* configure-alike script for VMS
* Command substitution in double-quoted strings
* Vector clipping style for 2D plots
* Sort terminals by name before displaying
* Numerous bugfixes
