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%%% File: changes.tex
%%% A part of mfpic 0.7a beta 2004/04/16
%%%
Changes History.
VERSION 0.0.x:
Development versions. Never released.
VERSION 0.1:
First version released to network, 30 June 1992.
VERSION 0.1.x:
Test versions for new features, fixes, etc. None of them
were released for general distribution. Many new features added, bugs
worked out, code cleaned up.
VERSION 0.2:
Second version released to network, 7 Sept. 1992. (Still had 0.1.13.1
version number in code---oops!)
VERSIONS 0.2.x:
Resumed serious development of TeX code: Sun 7 Nov. 1993. Much work
done on graphbase code in meantime, especially by Geoffrey Tobin. The
primary task at this point was a radical rewrite of the TeX code,
including defining a prefix form for shading macros.
VERSION 0.2.5 of Wed 10 Nov. 1993:
Bug fix release Primarily work by Geoffrey Tobin.
REVISION 0.2.(5.0.)9 of Mon 28 Feb. 1994:
Intended to release as version 0.3 to network. Release delayed, as
picture operator code is overhauled to cope with arbitrary overlays: 11
Mar. 1994.
Horizontal offset by unwanted glue is traced to missing comment
characters: Fri 29 Apr. 1994.
Vertical displacement of shading reported for MF modes with
nonrectangular pixels: Mon 23 May 1994.
REVISION 0.2.5.1 of Wed 13 July 1994:
Bug fix release Corrected "unxconv" bug which remained in version
0.2.5's graphbase.mf.
Alpha Test Versions.
VERSION 0.2.9 Alpha of Thu 11 August 1994:
A test release prior to any official version 0.3, is ready for intrepid
users. Introduces coordinate transforms, and other novelties.
UPDATE 0.2.9.1 Alpha} of Thu 8 September 1994: Fixes a bug in \sclosed
and a bug in \white, corrects some omissions and typos in the
documentation, and adds the \shadewd, \hatchwd, \lhatch and \rhatch
macros.
UPDATE 0.2.9.2 Alpha of Fri 24 February 1995: Rearranges some code in
mfpic.tex; little else to report.
In 0.2.9.3 Alpha of Thu 21 March 1995:
GT renamed \fill to \gfill, in order to avoid conflict with the LaTeX
\fill macro.
UPDATE 0.2.9.4 Alpha of Thu 13 April 1995:
Contributes a test for an existing definition of each macro in
mfpic.tex,
Renaming of \label to \tlabel, and \caption to \tcaption, in order to
avoid conflict with the LaTeX macros with those names.
\white was renamed to \gclear, because \white is a likely name for a
color macro.
Also, a new macro for defining Metafont functions was introduced,
because user-defined functions provide more power, and function plotting
macros were added that accept Metafont function names instead of
Metafont expressions.
Renaming of graphbase.mf and graphdoc.tex to grafbase.mf and grafdoc.tex
to emphasise incompatible upgrade of mfpic Metafont macros, and to
provide $8+3$ filenames for ms-dos users.
Added \hbox{} to start of \mfpic, for some now forgotten reason to do
with formatting, I suppose.
VERSION 0.2.9.5 Alfa of Wed 19 July 1995:
Replaces TeX dimensions by font dimensions for economy.
Renames \mfcmd to \mfsrc for clarity.
Renames \wedge to \sector to avoid conflict with the character name
defined in plain TeX and LaTeX.
Introduces \mftitle, \tmtitle and \plr.
Abolishes \plrpoint, \plrlines, \plrcurve and \plrcyclic as
redundant specializations. The meaning of \turtle is changed to a
Cartesian form, for flexibility.
Changed objects.tex to use \tmtitle, \plr, \mfsrc, \gfill,
\gclear, \tlabel, and \tcaption.
Rendering macros redesigned, and \setrender introduced. Coordinate
transforms in grafbase.mf made slightly more robust. Begin an attempt
to make grafbase.mf compatible with John Hobby's MetaPost drawing
program.
Added comment in grafbase.mf about dangers of text arguments,
Updated the documentation files grafdoc.tex, Acknowl.tex, README2,
MANIFEST and mfpicdoc.tex.
UPDATE 0.2.9.6 Alfa of Mon 24 July 1995:
Contributes \thatch which provides hatching by lines at any angle.
Modifications to \pen, \shadewd and \hatchwd, along with changes to
grafbase.mf to make drawing, shading and hatching more independent.
Decided that the behavior of \point inside a connect environment was
bizarre, hazardous, and an unnecessary complication to the mfpic macros,
so \point has reverted to its original, obvious and simple definition.
Renamed \rotate to \rotatepath.
Also renamed the affine transform macros, so that they no longer use the
`s' of the present tense, which could be mistaken for a plural. (The
sample files did not hitherto use the affine transform macros, so the
damage may be slight.)
Modified grafbase.mf to use a transform stack to implement local
Metafont coordinate systems; this may be more robust, and extensible to
other graphic localizations.
UPDATE 0.2.9.7 alfa, Fri 18 August 1995:
Changes to pictures.tex:
Replaced version from "0.2.9.1 alpha Thu 8 September 1994" to
"0.2.9.7 alfa Sat 5 August 1995".
Added a comment containing an ASCII sketch of the commutative diagram
example, and indicated where each arc is drawn.
Replaced all uses of \label by \tlabel, \caption by \tcaption,
\fill by \gfill, \wedge by \sector.
Added some uses of \mftitle.
Moved one arrow in the commutative diagram, to illustrate the b
option of the \arrow command.
Simplified Metafont algebraic expressions used in function plots, so
that they use fewer * operators.
Edited the example of \turtle to allow for the new semantics of
rectangular coordinates.
Captioned all eight figures, with figure numbers and descriptions.
Deleted an instance of "\vfill\eject".
Increased the complexity of the seventh figure, to illustrate use of
hatching, closing, point, dotted curves, and so forth.
Made figures seven and eight twice as large.
Changes to lapictures.tex:
Renamed version from "0.2.9.1 alpha Thu 8 September 1994" to
"0.2.9.7 alfa Thu 17 August 1995".
Magnified the LaTeX pictures document to the same scale as the plain TeX
one, using the \mag command.
Set \fboxsep to zero.
Initialized arrow heads using \headshape.
Commented out the center environment around the commutative diagram
example.
Placed \fbox commands around each picture.
Other changes as in pictures.tex.
Extensive changes to grafbase.mf:
Turned warningcheck off.
Used an explicit designsize.
Debugging refined.
Rearranged some code.
Made ClipOn boolean (instead of numeric).
Added maparr macro.
Eliminated mistake of using hround in graph-to-pixel coordinate
transformation.
Remarked that clipping can distort paths by changing their points.
Tried to clip on character boundary.
Added Metafont vector coordinate transform, to complement affine
transform for geometric points.
Write message when drawing nominal Metafont bounding box.
Changed beginmfpic Metafont macro to take only the character code as
an argument.
Introduced global Metafont transform stack, for coordinate changes.
Replaced currentpen by drawpen in path stroking.
Changed ourfill and ourunfill to use an undelimited path argument.
Added setdotpath, ourdot.
Changed onedot to use dotpath instead of a scaled shape path.
Edited tightbbox and bbox to take a path described in pixel
coordinates as their first argument, instead of one in graph
coordinates.
Added tbbox.
Did some more saving of local variables in Metafont functions.
Deleted lhatchf and rhatchf.
Added thatchf, thatch, hhatch and xhatch.
Rewrote lhatch and rhatch to use thatch.
Edited dotted, renamed it dashed.
Added a separate dotted Metafont macro.
Changed head from a def to a vardef; edited head to clarify its
code.
Altered axis tic mark macros, xmarks and ymarks to ensure that the
tic marks are always at right angles to their axes, irrespective of
coordinate transforms.
Added a grid command.
Renamed mkellipse to ellipse, deleted old ellipse.
Renamed mkarc to arc.
UPDATE 0.2.9.8 alfa, Mon 11 September 1995:
Added to Acknowl.tex.
In mfpic.tex:
Add comment about use of \ignorespaces to skip spaces in user's
document after \mfpic command.
Retain line separations of user's document's mfpic environment when
writing Metafont file. This prevents long Metafont commands from
exceeding Metafont's input buffer.
UPDATE 0.2.9.9 alfa, Thu 5 October 1995:
In mfpicdoc.tex:
changed \wedge references to \sector, and \rotateabout to
\rotatearound.
Added some logical formatting commands to mfpicdoc.tex.
Included much more information about recent changes (from 0.2.9.1 to
0.2.9.8).
In mfpic.tex:
Renamed \@graph to \@graphfont for identifiability.
UPDATE 0.2.9.10 alfa, Fri 6 October 1995:
In grafbase.mf:
Deleted spurious argument to \xyswap.
Changed \store to take two arguments, and to logically bracket the
second, which is the path description.
UPDATE 0.2.9.11 alfa, Fri 24 November 1995:
In grafbase.mf:
Fixed X-coordinate rounding bug in thatchf.
REVISION 0.2.10.0 alfa, Wed 17 January 1996:
In mfpic.tex and grafbase.mf:
Changed names of five Metafont macros: xslanted, yslanted, zslanted,
boosted, and xyswapped to xslant, yslant, zslant, boost, xyswap.
In grafbase.mf:
Replaced my dash and dot code by Frank Michielsen's, modified to use
suffix arguments instead of text for l-values.
Also, the dotsize argument to dotted is now effective.
Deleted the unused ourdraw, ourfill, ourunfill macros.
Simplified the dotpath and onedot initialization code; it was too
baroque.
Added a pixdot macro as a shorthand for picdot(active_plane,onedot,p).
Replaced the apoint (w, a) macro by bpoint (w, b) which is a
shorthand for fullcircle scaled w shifted b.
Gratuitously added Bruce Leban's overlay macros from the METAFONTbook,
page 295.
Cosmetic reformatting of source.
In Acknowl.tex:
Add Frank Michielsen's name.
REVISION 0.2.10.1 alfa, Thu 18 January 1996:
In grafbase.mf:
Fixed wrong declaration in dotted of dp from path to pair.
REVISION 0.2.10.2 alfa, Tue 23 January 1996:
Editing to restore compatibility with older graphbase.mf versions used
with xfig's (actually, transfig's fig2dev's) mf driver (genmf.c).
In mfpic.tex:
Edited writing of setting of Metafont variables xscale and yscale to
omit factor of unitlen.
Changed references to drawwd to penwd in \drawpen.
In grafbase.mf:
Add declarations and initializations of these variables: unitlen,
xscale, yscale, xneg, xpos, yneg, ypos.
Renamed drawwd to its former name, penwd.
Again made penwd, hdwdr, hdten into newinternal variables, and
assign them using interim.
Definition of ztr now includes unitlen as a factor in the x and y
scaling.
mfpicenv and endmfpicenv defined as empty statements.
bounds defined for setting xneg, xpos, yneg, ypos.
beginchar now includes unitlen.
REVISION 0.2.10.3 alfa, Tue 6 February 1996:
In mfpicdoc.tex:
Updated documentation to cover to \dotted, \dotsize and \dotspace
on the one hand, and \dashed, \dashlen and \dashspace on the other.
REVISION 0.2.10.4 alfa, Mon 26 February 1996:
In mfpic.tex:
Let internal \sim@gdef (simple global definition) stand for \gdef.
Added \newgdef for new global definitions with a test for previous
definition.
Replaced use of \obeylines by \mfpicobeylines, to use \endgraf instead
of \par, because LaTeX(2e) redefines \par with unpleasant effects on
Metafont files when using LaTeX's center environment. (To wit, LaTeX's
center environment would write \@@par to the Metafont file.
Defined \preservelines to call \mfpicobeylines then set
\newlinechar to control-M (carriage return).
Use \preservelines in \mfsrc, thus bypassing (I hope) the mischief
arising from LaTeX in the center environment.
Wrapped replacement text of \mfsrc in a layer of braces.
Added descriptive comments for \tlabel and \tcaption.
Set TeX's primitives \leftskip and \rightskip to zero dimension
inside \tcaption, so as to protect typesetting of diagrams' captions
from unwanted effects.
REVISION 0.2.10.5 alfa, Sat 9 March 1996:
Minor reformatting of mfpic.tex, including adding spaces, adding
comment characters at end of more lines, and renaming some internal
register variables.
Introduced \polyline as an alternative name for \lines.
In order to avoid repetition of side-effects, changed \tcaption to use
\unhbox\@textbox, instead of repeating its text argument.
REVISION 0.2.10.6 alfa, (two hours later) on Sat 9 March 1996:
Updated mfpic.tex and documentation files to incorporate improvements
by Dan Luecking:
a loading check that automatically saves and restores the catcode of
`@';
the name of the graph base is now stored in a macro near the top of
mfpic.tex;
\leavevmode is now moved [GT has, for now, commented it out
completely];
\polyline introduced as a synonym for \lines; a \polygon figure
has been introduced;
\\ specifies explicit line breaks in tlabels and tcaptions;
\onelevel causes one level of expansion in an \edef;
\savepic and \copypic allow saving, use and copying of an entire
mfpic picture, including its tcaptions and tlabels.
Also modified \tcaption code to prevent repeated use of the text
argument, as that can cause side effects, as reported by Dennis
Petrovic.
REVISION 0.2.10.7 alfa, Sat 28 March 1996:
First release via Geoffrey Tobin's School's local anon ftp site:
ftp.ee.latrobe.edu.au : pub/gt/mfpic
Added skip-pix.tex file, which tests whether TeX's \leftskip
primitive breaks up mfpic's typesetting of diagrams. Fortunately, it
seems not.
REVISION 0.2.10.8 alfa, Tue 26 May 1996:
Second, and bug fix, release via Geoffrey Tobin's anonymous ftp area.
Due to change in syntax of \store to take the path command as a second
argument (which made coding of mfpic.tex easier), objects.tex and
part of mfpicdoc.tex needed to be amended. Reported by Miroslav Dont
(Thu 16 May 1996).
Descriptions of LaTeX environments clarified to emphasise that mfpic's
plain TeX command names may be used in LaTeX. This is useful to know
when designing automatic code generators. Reported by Van Snyder (Fri
17 May 1996).
Added hyphenation to \MFbook in documentation macro file header.tex.
Noticed that the method by which the line breaks in the TeX file are
copied into the Metafont file can cause command arguments to be omitted
from the Metafont file unless at least the left brace (immediately
before the arguments) occurs on the same line as the command. Corrected
objects.tex to obey this restriction. Also noted this phenomenon in
mfpicdoc.tex. Effect reported by Miroslav Dont (Thu 16 May 1996).
Updated lapictures.tex to LaTeX2e.
Added LaTeX2e logo to header.tex.
REVISION 0.3.0 alpha, 1998:
Numbers jump a lot from here because I (Dan Luecking) have been lax in
keeping track of changes. First version with support for Metapost.
(Yes!)
Translated grafbase.mf to grafbase.mp, retaining all(?)
functionality. Now any(?) .mf file created by a recent mfpic can be
run through Metapost to produce a PostScript picture. Lots of problems
with Metapost capacity, especially with shading. It is apparently a lot
more memory intensive to hold thousands of circular paths in memory than
hundreds of thousands of pixels. Ultimately recoded the grafbase.mp
shading macros to simply calculate a gray colored fill.
Added grafbase functions sin, cos, and their inverses invsin,
etc., that compute in radian measure. Also tan and cot.
Wrote mppicdoc.tex, which can be TeX-ed alone or input from
mfpicdoc.tex. Should probably combine the two documents. Made small
changes to header.tex: added logos for pdfTeX and pdfLaTeX. Changed
The macros \MF and \MP to use small capitals. Minor modifications to
\LaTeX and \LaTeXe
REVISION 0.3.8 alpha, 1999:
Color has been added. Standard colors for lines/curves (drawcolor),
fills (fillcolor), hatch patterns (hatchcolor), and arrowheads
(headcolor) added to grafbase.mp. Corresponding macros in mppic.tex
for setting these colors. Optional arguments for color added to \gfill,
\draw, \arrow, and all the hatching macros. A new macro \polkadot
creates polkadot fill patterns.
Changed some of the commands for setting dimensions so that they
actually worked, and so they are local to mfpic environments.
Added support for LaTeX2e's \usepackage command and options. Added
graphics inclusion code, summoning the following packages: epsf for
plain TeX or LaTeX209, graphics for LaTeX2e and pdfLaTeX, the macro
files supp-pdf.tex and supp-mis.tex from the ConTeXt distribution
for plain \pdfTeX). Added code to detect which TeX format was in use.
REVISION 0.3.9 alpha, 2000:
Altered almost all messages written to the log file or the terminal to
announce they were from mfpic. Altered format detection code to test
against both \UndEfInEd _and_ \relax (lest some previous package
convert certain commands to \relax using the \csname style test).
Minor change to definition of \circle to avoid error messages in LaTeX.
Changed the graphic placement code so that it tests for the existence of
the graphic first (to avoid all those error messages from epsf,
graphics, etc., on the first pass, or when Metapost fails to make a
graphic).
Tried to find and change code in grafbase where we could inadvertently
divide by zero. Added another closure prefix \uclosed and its
corresponding grafbase support, to close a path smoothly (meaning
simply matching directions at both ends), but keep the original curve
Unchanged. The current (\sclosed simply closes with ..cycle which
alters the original curve.
REVISION 0.3.10 alpha, 2000:
Put mfpic version, date and package name into macros for use in
messages. Decided the package name is "mfpic" if it is input as
mfpic.tex or mfpic.sty, otherwise mppic, regardless of whether the
metafont or metapost option is used. There are four files
m[fp]ic.[sty,tex], which simply set the package name and input
mppic.tex if necessary. Also put this version and date info into
strings in grafbase.mf.
Added changes contributed by Jaromir Kuben (Thanks!): An option
centercaptions and command \centercaptions to center the lines in a
\tcaption. Also \nocentercaptions; these can be used at any point to
turn the feature on and off. Improvements (corrections?) to the code
that positions text labels (so that) labels that extend outside the
picture are correctly taken into account. Changes to the positioning
parameters in \tlabel. Both c and b now take into account the
depth of the text b puts the absolute bottom of the text in line with
the point. A new parameter B to align the baseline of the text with
the point. Jaromir also contributed several corrections to grafbase.mp
(mostly inadvertently introduced by me, DHL).
Added option dvipsnames to allow color names as in the dvips header
color.pro. Requires file dvipsnam.mp. Added grafbase.mp macros:
cmyk, RGB, gray and rgb to convert from the indicated color space
to Metapost's internal color space (which is rgb, so the last is a
no-op). In plain TeX the command \dvipsnames can be used in the
preamble (before \opengraphsfile).
Added macro \ConTeXt to header.tex, a macro \opt for style of
LaTeX2e option names. Changed \prog to typeset its argument in
sans serif font. Changed \tmtitle in mppic.tex so it _doesn't_ ignore
following spaces (it ended with \mftitle which invokes \ignorespaces).
Added functions tanh, its inverse atanh, and additional trig
functions secd, sec, cscd, csc, atan, invtan. Made log a
synonym for ln. Added complex variables functions Arg, cis, zexp
and Log.
Changed all trig, hyperbolic, exp, log, etc, to use syntax "vardef
<name> primary X" so as to match (I hope) as close as possible the
behavior of the built-in sind and cosd.
Changed \do@ptparami so that it does not strip too many braces. This
was done by changing the line \redef\@ptparami to be parameterless
(delaying the reading of the optional parameter). The old code read the
optional parameter, replaced it, then read it again. This strips two
levels of braces, making two levels of bracing necessary to hide an
enclosed bracket:
\draw[{{\color[cmyk]{1,1,0,0}}}]...
(Such use of LaTeX color macros has not yet been added, but might be one
day.) This strategy is closer to LaTeX's optional parameter handling
technique.
REVISION 0.3.11 alpha, 2000:
Added \plot (usage \plot[<size>,<separation>]{<shape>}...) similar to
\dotted except:
1) explicit shape required (shapes Triangle, Square, Circle, Plus,
Cross, Star, SolidTriangle, SolidSquare, SolidCircle).
2) initial size and separation are 2pt and 5pt.
3) Size is governed by \plotsymbolsize, and separation by
\plotsymbolspace. The dimension \plotsymbolsize corresponds
roughly to the _average_ diameter of the shape.
Added code to mkfcn and parafcn so that the end of the curve falls
on the given endpoint (even if bst doesn't go evenly into bmax-bmin).
Also ensure the loop parameter doesn't exceed infinity. Also avoid
problems if the sign of bmax-bmin differs from that of bst.
REVISION 0.3.12 alpha, 2000:
Save and restore catcodes of certain punctuation (@.,:;!?{}`'=/- and
parentheses), as well as spaces, setting punctuation to 12 while reading
mppic.tex to ensure the right stuff gets written to the .log and .mp
files.
Added macro \datafile to read a file of number pairs and create the
polygonal path connecting them. Works like the other figure macros
(i.e., may take any prefixes).
Added options clip (to clip all pictures to the specified dimensions),
truebbox (to give the metapost output file the true bounding box rather
than the one specified in the \mfpic arguments), and debug (write
debugging info to terminal and log file). Command forms: \clipmfpic
turns it on \noclipmfpic turns it off. Similarly, \usetruebbox and
\notruebbox. For debug we can define \mfpicdebug before loading
mfpic.tex (which will turn on debugging information written prior to
option processing), and in the rest of a source file, \mfpicdebugtrue
and \mfpicdebugfalse will switch it on and off.
%%% Revised after here, adding spaces before and after code and math
%%% removing blank lines, stray TeX markup, reformatting paragraphs, etc.
Changed names of various commands to a more imperative form:
\usingmetapost becomes \usemetapost, \usingmetafont becomes
\usemetafont, \dvipsnames becomes \usedvipsnames, etc. Also changed
name of option centercaptions to centeredcaptions. Changed many
internal names, prefixing most with "mfp@", inserting "@mfp@" in the
\if... commands.
REVISION 0.3.13 alpha, 2000:
\datafile rewritten, now ignores leading blank lines and comments, and
won't gag on commented out EOLs. Code somewhat modularized.
Went back to technique of expanding argument of \tcaption twice
(caveat emptor).
New command \plotdata reads a data file and draws one (polygonal) path
for each non-blank sequence of lines in the data file. Exits when a pair
of blank lines is encountered (or EOF). Cycles through six different
drawing styles for successive curves. User may elect different colors
(with \coloredlines), different symbols (\pointedlines), or
different dashing patterns (\dashedlines). NOT a figure macro, (i.e.,
no prefixes).
New command \using affects what \datafile and \plotdata write to
the .mf output. Default is \using{#1 #2 #3}{#1,#2}, meaning: of two
or more space delimited numbers, write the first two separated by a
comma.
Brand new dashing and dotting code in grafbase. A complete
reorganization of the code made dashing faster. That was followed by
another reorganization and the gendashed (generalized dashes) command
added to grafbase. Now any dashing pattern can be drawn. A dashing
pattern, ptrn, consists of three arrays: ptrn.start[], ptrn.rep[],
ptrn.finish[]. The command gendashed (ptrn) p; draws the path p
beginning with ptrn.start, repeating ptrn.rep, and ending with
ptrn.finish. The arrays are numeric and specify the lengths of dashes
and gaps. A command
dashpat (suffix name) (text dims)
takes a comma separated list dims, assigns them to the array name.rep,
and computes reasonable name.start and name.finish.
\gendashed{<pattern>}... is a generalized dashing command; <pattern>
is the name of a dashing pattern.
\dashpat{<name>}{<dim1>,<dim2>,...,<dim2n>}
will create a dashing pattern with the specified name. Here <dim1>,
etc., are dimensions specifying the length of dashes (odd positions) and
the length of gaps (even positions). A dash length of 0 is written as a
dot. Patterns dashtype0 through dashtype5 are predefined and used by
\plotdata when \dashedlines is selected.
Commented out several macros in grafbase that were never used
elsewhere, and also some that were only used once (replacing that use by
the replacement text). I haven't done any comparisons, but for the macro
dotted, avoiding two expansions out of four (what it used to take to
draw a dot) might be a significant time saving when thousands of dots
are being drawn.
Added a couple of rounding commands to the .mf shading code. All dots
now pixel aligned, looks infinitely better.
Corrections to mkfcn and parafcn, they could still have overshot the
value of bmax.
Removed all spaces (commenting out EOL's) in mppic.tex. It can now be
\input in horizontal mode without generating any spaces (even without
switching to \nullfont). Removed \nullfont.
Changed some more internal names. Added Diamond and SolidDiamond to
the symbols available to \plot and \plotsymbol.
At some point (perhaps this or the last revision) I added a command
\fcncurve that draws a function (i.e., curve doesn't double back) if
the x-values are unique and listed in order. It has an optional
tension-like argument. Added an optional tension parameter to \curve,
also.
REVISION 0.3.14 alpha, 2000:
Added \@@tlabel to write label text to output file between btex and
etex. Added mplabels to make \tlabel use it instead of original
\@tlabel. Commands \usemplabels and \nomplabels to turn the option
on and off. Added third part to the optional argument of \tlabel to
rotate the text (ignored in \@tlabel) so \tlabel[Bl45] will place
the left baseline at the point and rotate 45 degrees around that point.
New macro \mfpdatacomment so that \datafile and \plotdata can now
have their comment character reset. A side effect is that `%'s in the
data file will be recognized. Commands \makepercentother and
\makepercentcomment created to allow the user to use `%' in \using
arguments.
Gave \plotdata the ability to cycle through 8 colors or 9 symbols
(instead of only 6), but still only 6 dash patterns. (Too many makes for
confusion. Only increased colors and symbols because it was so easy.)
Added framing macro. On the first TeX run (indicated by nonexistence of
.tfm or fig.1), now show a visible rectangle of appropriate size with
the figure number inside. For plain TeX users, the internal code is made
available in the user level command \framed[<fgap>]{...}. Parameters
\framegap and \framethickness control the default appearance.
(Internal code for undefined figures uses \framegap =-\framethickness
so not to take up any extra space.)
Added some error checking: when option mplabels is selected without
metapost, issue error message and ignore. Same when \usemetapost is
used after \opengraphsfile. Remove dvipsnames option, making all
dvips color names always available to mfpic.
Multiple changes to documentation: Added \GS for Ghostscript and \sc
for small caps to header.tex. Folded all the new macros and their
descriptions into mfpicdoc.tex. Still keeping mppicdoc.tex for more
detail on differences between the Metafont and Metapost support.
Made some small additions to MFobjs.tex and MPobjs.tex to better
illustrate some new features. Adjusted pictures.tex and
lapictures.tex so they produce the same output and no overfull boxes.
Changed TeXMPobjs.tex and LTXMPobjs.tex so that they work better in
pdfTeX and pdfLaTeX, resetting \pdfpageheight and \pdfpagewidth (which
otherwise get magnified by \mag=1200).
Replaced curves.dat with curves1.dat and curves2.dat to better
show features of \plotdata.
Changed the default for \using to \using{#1 #2 #3}{(#1,#2)},
(redundant parentheses).
Added \fdef, which seemed to be documented, but not defined! Changed
the format slightly and adjusted the documentation to reflect that.
Changed \savepic: Now use \newpic{\foo} to allocate a box,
\savepic{\foo} to store the next picture, and \usepic{\foo} to copy
it. Now more like LaTeX's system of save boxes.
REVISION 0.3.15 alpha, 2000:
In grafbase, changed secd and cscd so that abs(temp) <
nottoosmall is tested instead of temp itself (which was incorrect when
temp < -nottoosmall). Renamed dashed to DASHED to make primitive
dashed available to power users. Added some error checking to dashing
code. Added save in several places in *fcn commands. Changed
hatching code in grafbase.mp so that all (even those not used by mfpic)
respect hatchcolor.
Redefined parafcn so it can call mkfcn like all the other function
drawing commands.
Added \mfpverbtex to write verbatimtex block to .mp file.
Changed a few \newdef-s and \newlets to \def and \let to keep
ConTeXt from complaining. Affected commands are \rotate, \mirror,
\scale and \grid. Changed code for date written to output file for
same reason.
Changed \newpic to \newsavepic to more closely parallel LaTeX's
\newsavebox command.
Allow plotting of a number in a data file against its sequence position
with \using{...}{...\sequence...}.
Rename \mf@gobble to \mfp@gobble. Move the definition of \newdef
earlier and use it more (didn't catch any new conflicts).
Changed \rotatepath from a \@modmac to a \@closmac (even though it
doesn't close anything), because that makes its behavior vis-a-vis
rendering more in line with what one might expect. Actually, closing and
rotating both simply accept a path, change it, and pass the result on.
So both should be handled the same.
Added contributed macro \pointdef: \pointdef{A}(1,3) makes \A expand
to (1,3), with \Ax and \Ay expanding
to 1 and 3, respectively.
Provide a directory structure to the distribution. Rename file mppic.tex
to mfpic.tex and provide files mppic.tex, mfpic.sty, and mppic.sty
as wrappers to input it. Made Metapost the default when mppic.* are
used.
Add some error correction to dashpat: force an even number of
dimensions.
REVISION 0.3.16 alpha, 2000:
In grafbase:
Change name of glabel (in grafbase.mp) to gblabel so as not to
conflict with glabel from graph.mp in the standard Metapost
distribution. Adjusted mfpic.tex accordingly.
Correct the change to dashpat made in 0.3.15: don't force dashing when
there are fewer than 2 dimensions in the list. Instead, this is the
signal to draw a solid curve.
Save the variables dashes and dots used in the macros DASHED and
dotted.
Uncomment three macros commented out in 0.3.13: tightbbox, tbbox and
bbox. Though these are not used in any other macro, but they might
nevertheless be useful to users of grafbase.
Change the dashtype[] arrays that mix dots and dashes so they begin
with a dot. This will produce a dot at the ends of the curve. This just
looks better than a partial dash.
Added unbound.tex updating mfpic info in "TeX Unbound".
Restored mf-revu.tex, somewhat altering its formatting and correcting a
TeX error.
Changed \endconnect so it tests for its use in LaTeX as an
environment and if so issues \aftergroup\@startfigtrue and
\aftergroup\@imrendtrue to bypass the LaTeX-supplied \endgroup.
Added a similar test to \endmfpic to set \@ignoretrue.
REVISION 0.4.0 beta, Aug 2000:
Released to CTAN. Removed mppic.*, package is named mfpic regardless
of whether MF or MP support is needed.
REVISION 0.4.01 beta, Nov/Dec 2000:
Sergei V. Znamenskii reported (and mostly solved) an incompatibility
with AmSTeX using amsppt style if mfpic.tex is input after the
\documentstyle[amsppt] command. The file amstex.tex loads the dummy
font, setting 22 font dimensions. Then amsppt.sty loads some more fonts.
It appears that if font loading intervenes, mfpic.tex cannot add extra
font dimension parameters to dummy to use with \newfdim. Solved by
changing
\font\@dummy=dummy
to
\font\@dummy=dummy scaled 1002
in mfpic.tex
Also corrected code that purported to detect LaTeX when in fact AmSTeX
was in use.
Added documentation of a bug in supp-pdf.tex which requires
\usemetapost (as well as \usepackage[metapost]{mfpic}) to come before
\usepackage[french]{babel} when running pdfLaTeX. The conflict was
reported by Pascal Chantriaux.
Changed \tmtitle and \mftitle so they read the argument as a token
list and write it to .mf file and .log file without expansion. Simple
things like "\'" expand to quite long expressions in LaTeX2e.
Added commands \MFPdebugwrite (to write its argument only in presence
of debug option), \MFPmsg (as a synonym for \immediate\write16) and
\MFPICmsg (to write its argument preceded by "MFpic: ".
Added \restoreCODE to shorten all the lines in \mfpic-package that
restore the category codes of punctuation.
Added a few new debug lines in response to previous failure to detect
\AmSTeX.
Rewrote \mfp@now (which generates a time-stamp for the output file) to
use only 2 \count registers instead of three.
Added \dimendef\mfp@scratch=255 for scratch use instead having
\dimen255 hard coded. This will make changes easier should use of
\dimen255 cause any problem.
Added \penwd as a synonym for \pen (to be more in line with
\shadewd, etc.).
Removed redundant parentheses from default \using.
Changed internal command \mfp@rwdata, which is responsible for reading
and writing in the \datafile and \plotdata commands, so that it
outputs
polyline (false)((x_1,y_1),(x_2,y_2),...,(x_n,y_n));
instead of
(x_1,y_1)--(x_2,y_2)--...--(x_n,y_n);
The intent is to have a better interface if ever we get 3D support
started. For example, polyline calls textpairs which processes the
list of coordinates. In a hypothetical 3D environment, we'd need to
change only \using to write triples, and then textpairs could choose
to run some command that processes triples instead of pairs.
Changed use of \unpreservelines in \plotdata, etc., to the expicit
resetting of the category of ascii 13 (which was its only purpose
anyway).
Added macros \xaxis[<hlen>] and \yaxis[<hlen>] with the obvious
meanings. Plan on adding something like \leftaxis, \bottomaxis, etc.,
with changes to \xmarks and \ymarks for putting tics on them.
(Haven't figured out the best interface yet.)
Added some new error messages. Rewrote almost all error messages, adding
linebreaks. Added command \mfp@errmsg to format error messages and set
the \errhelp tokens.
REVISION 0.4.02 beta, Jan 2001:
Backward comparability was inadvertently destroyed when \curve was
given an optional parameter and the definition of curve in grafbase.m?
was changed. Any .mf file created by using \curve with an older
version of mfpic would give curve the wrong number of parameters for the
new grafbase files. I renamed the new curve to tcurve and gave curve
a definition equivalent to its old one.
REVISION 0.4.03 beta, Feb 2001:
Corrected a typo in vardef thegblabel: had zz for a parameter, but
used z in the replacement text. I am surprised \tlabel _ever_ worked
when the mplabels option was selected.
REVISION 0.4.04 beta, Mar 2001:
Added \smoothdata[<tension>] to cause \datafile and \plotdata to
draw smooth curves with optional tension setting. And \unsmoothdata to
restore the default.
Changed \pointedlines to work as documented (causing \plotdata to
issue the equivalent of \plot{<symbol>}) and added \datapointsonly to
behave as it used to (causing \plotdata to issue the equivalent of
\plotnodes, plotting only the data points).
Some documentation changes: added info that something like
\xmarks{-4 step 2 until 6} is valid.
REVISION 0.4.05 beta, Mar 2001:
Changed vc=vt; to vc:=vt; in function clipsto. When used on an
array of paths, the original caused an "Inconsistent equation" error
on the second iteration. Fortunately, this does not come up in mfpic
except for very advanced users.
REVISION 0.4.10 beta, May 2001:
Renamed \fileversion and \filedate to \mfpfileversion and
\mfpfiledate to avoid name clashes with other packages. Most packages
only use these macros for messages while loading, but mfpic writes the
information as a header comment in the output file
Added \mfp@ifnextchar, a clone of LaTeX's \@ifnextchar, and
redefined the macros \do@ptparam and \alt@ptparam in terms of it.
Copied LaTeX's code to eat one space after a command into the macro
\eatspacedef.
Added \mfp@delim as an all-purpose argument delimiter. For debugging
purposes, its definition is to issue an error message saying it
shouldn't ever be triggered.
Slight rewrite of \mfp@now and \mfp@today.
Renamed \framed and related macros by prefixing mfp or mfp@. Some
formats and packages (ConTeXt, for example) have a \framed macro. Now
\mfpframed _can_ be used, and _must_ be used if \framed already
exists (as in ConTeXt). Replaced \framegap and \framethickness
with \mfpframegap and \mfpframethickness. If \framed is already
defined, the old version is kept and the user may not get the effect
described.
Slight change to what is printed in the .dvi file when a mfpic detects
that Metafont or Metapost has not been run, or the figure is absent.
New dimensions: \tlabel@hadj, \tlabel@vadj and \tlabel@sep for
shifting \tlabel text. The first is a horizontal adjustment, the second
vertical, added to every label. The third shifts the label directly away
from the point of placement (unless optional argument "[Bc]" or
"[cc]" is used). A label is shifted by \tlabel@sep downward when the
`t' parameter is found, upward for `b', rightward for `l' and
leftward for `r'. The first two dimensions can be set with a new macro
\adjustlabels{<hadj>}{<vadj>} (name later changed to \tlabeljustify,
and the third with \tlabelsep{<dimen>}. Need to do it this way because
under mplabels they need to write the information to the output file.
Added \expandafter before \@render\fi in several places. This now
appears not to be needed, but the \fi following \@render caused
problems with some experimental versions of optional argument handling.
Added the following macros for drawing axes along the borders of the
picture:
\leftaxis
\rightaxis
\topaxis
\bottomaxis
\bottomleftaxes
\borderaxes
\leftaxisshift
\rightaxisshift
\topaxisshift
\bottomaxisshift
The first four draw the appropriate axis (no head by default), the last
four set an amount (in graph units) to shift the axis inward.
For tick marks we have:
\lmarks
\rmarks
\tmarks
\bmarks
\lmarksposition
\rmarksposition
\tmarksposition
\bmarksposition
\xmarksposition
\ymarksposition
The first four set the positions (and optionally size) of the tick marks
on the corresponding axis, the next six determine if the marks are
centered, or on one side of the axis. They take an argument which must
be one of inside, outside, centered, ontop, onbottom,
onleft, or onright. For side axes the default is inside, while
for x- and y-axes it is centered.
For arrowheads on the side axis we have \sideaxishead which takes a
dimension argument and sets the length of the arrowhead. To turn heads
off again set the length to 0pt.
Added \gridlines to draw a regular grid of lines. It's syntax is the
same as that of \grid. Changed the behavior of \grid so that instead
of starting at the left and bottom, it draws the grid centered on the
origin of the graph coordinates.
Changed most of the \if-tests so that if an incorrect optional parameter
is used, the default behavior will be seen. For example, \function
takes an optional argument of [s] or [p] with s the default. The
code had been:
\if ##1s true\else false\fi
and I changed it to
\if ##1p false\else true\fi
so for the typographical error \function[o], the user will get the effect
of the default s.
Added the command \labeljustify to change the default justification
of text labels. For example, \labeljustify[cr] makes the default
[cr] instead of [Bl].
When truebbox is in effect, but mfpic detects that Metapost has not
been run, truebbox is turned off for each picture. Before, this was
global, now it is local (so that it doesn't affect a new \opengraphsfile
command, even though mfpic does not officially support more than one
\opengraphsfile commands per file).
Added the command \tlabels (note the plural). It has one mandatory
argument which contains a concatenation of arguments for one or more
\tlabel commands. These arguments may (but need not be) separated by
spaces or new-lines.
Replaced all occurrences of \@labeldim, which had been \let equal to
\mfp@scratch, to the explicit control sequence \mfp@scratch. This was
to avoid confusion that could have been caused by changing one of them,
not realizing they should be the same.
REVISIONs 0.4.11--15 beta, July 2001:
Restored a lost backward comparability: I stored the (Metapost)
primitive meaning of dashed in the command dashed_ and made dashed
synonymous with DASHED. Power users will have to use dashed_ if they
wish to invoke that primitive after loading grafbase.mp
Added \MFPICwarn in addition to \MFPICmsg and \mfp@errmsg. Added
"MFpic error: " to the front of all mfpic generated error messages.
Introduced \on@line (from LaTeX) to place the line number in warnings.
Removed many more spaces and eols from mfpic.tex (lest it be input
with spaces or eols active). Added some spaces between a command and
`!' lest the latter have category 11.
Changed name of \restoreCODE (and others) to \MFPrestorecode (etc.)
after running across a package which defined \restorecode. Introduced
\@xp (from AMSLaTeX) for \expandafter. Removed saving of the current
font as \@torig, since we no longer change to \nullfont.
Added test for equality to \relax in \testdef. Removed \newlet
(later put it back), \sim@def and \sim@gdef as they are not used (any
longer). The latter two were used once each and those were changed.
Changed handling of \if@mfp@metafont and \if@mfp@metapost to ensure
they are kept mutually exclusive. Changed handling of
\@if@mfp@beforefileopen from a simple \if...\else...\fi to saving the
alternatives in a macro and then issuing the macro after the test.
Changed \mfp@clip to make it global if issued before \opengraphsfile.
Redid \mfp@truebbox to ensure it is global, but leave an out so that
\@mfp@truebboxtrue/false could be set locally. Made similar
changes to mplabels.
Removed \unpreservelines from \mfsrc since grouping restores EOLs.
Also made \mfsrc check that a .mf/p file has been opened.
Removed the definition of \mf@bsl since it is not used (any longer).
Delayed the definition of \mfp@data until \@mfpic@graf@macs.
Introduce the hook \mfp@additions, to be expanded last in
\@mfpic@graf@macs.
Changed the name of macro \mfplinestyle to \mfplinetype and the
\count register \mfp@linestyle to \mfp@linetype.
Changed name of \missinggraphfileerror to \nooutputfileerror.
Changed name of \adjustlabels to \tlabeloffset.
Changed name of \labeljustify to \tlabeljustify.
Try to support multiline labels even in the case of mplabels by writing
appropriate definition of `\\' to the .mp.
Changed definition of \mfp@scratch from \dimension255 to a register
defined by \newdimen.
Added ability to create a curve surrounding some text: macro
\textboundary creates a rectangle, with optionally rounded corners,
\textoval creates an ellipse with aspect ratio the same as the block of
text, \textellipse creates an ellipse with a given aspect ratio,
\textcircle is \textellipse with aspect ratio of 1. TeX measures
the text and transmits the information to Metafont.
New macro \axislabels. This takes a letter indicating the axis, an
optional justification parameter (as in \tlabel) and a comma separated
list of TeX text and numbers. The numbers indicating the position on the
given axis to place the text. Since side axes may be offset from the
edge of the graph, the utility \mfp@addto is used to add the boundary
coordinate (one of the parameters of \mfpic) to the appropriate offset,
returning the result in graph units for use in a \tlabel command. The
default justification depends on the axis. It is chosen so that the text
ends up outside the border axes, below the x-axis and left of the
y-axis.
Color additions: added \tlabelcolor and grafbase color variable
tlabelcolor to control color of Metapost placed text; added
\backgroundcolor to set the color variable background, the color used
by \gclear and by all plain Metapost unfill operations. Had to
rewrite the various color setting macros since, till now, all assumed
the color variable name ended with the string "color".
Changed the macros introduced in 0.4.10 or previous that controlled the
position of the side axis. Now instead of saying
\leftaxisshift{<num>}
one says
\axismargin{l}{<num>}.
One can set all 4 margins at once with
\setaxismargins{<num>}{<num>}{<num>}{<num>}.
or all margins to the same number with
\setallaxismargins{<num>}.
A similar change was made to the setting of the axis marks position
(i.e., inside, outside or centered). Instead of
\lmarksposition{inside}
one writes
\setaxismarks{l}{inside}.
One can also set the position of all the border marks at once with
\setbordermarks, or all border marks to the same position with
\setallbordermarks.
Command \drawaxes added: it takes a comma separated list of
letters chosen from x, y, l, b, r and t, and draws the specified
axes. Later renamed to \doaxes, and commas omitted.
Added optional parameter to \plotdata and \datafile which
has the form p or s<num>. "[p]" causes a polygonal curve to be
plotted and "[s<num>]" causes a smooth curve to be drawn, with the
given number as the tension. The number may be omitted, and then
grafbase's value of curvetension (default 1.0) will be used. Any
other letter or none is the same as [p]. Internally, the optional
parameter is passed to \mfp@rwdata, which now, of course, takes
parameters. Along with this, \smoothdata was revamped to simply
change the default optional parameter, rather than set a switch.
When option metapost is selected, each mfpic environment writes the
current font to the output file (in verbtimtex) to have at least the
chance (under mplabels) to match the fonts that TeX would use in
tlabels.
Framing code: in addition to \framed or \mfpframed, we now have a
LaTeX environment: \begin{mfpframe}...\end{mfpframe} or, in plain TeX,
a command group \mfpframe...\endmfpframe. This is actually recommended
(over the first form) if the user wishes to frame an mfpic environment.
This ensures that category codes are not prematurely set by reading the
whole picture as an argument.
Changes to grafbase:
Moved interim warningcheck:=0; after mode_setup because mode_setup
sets it to 1. Now that warningcheck is correctly set, we can change
the test of parameters in secd, etc., from comparing with nottoosmall,
to comparing with reallysmall.
Streamlined minpair and maxpair.
Define transform vtr on its own in setztr rather than only the macro
vconv being defined (in terms of ztr). Define ztr in terms of vtr
(the "right way to do things", said the linear algebra teacher).
Remove definition of invztr and use inverse ztr the few times necessary.
Remove the "complicated zconv" entirely.
Added plain Metapost's image command to grafbase.mf.
Changed the command executed when clipall is true to clipto instead
of clipsto.
Added textboundary, textoval and textellipse to put paths around
text. Only the size and center point of the text is passed by mfpic, not
the actual text. These implement the mfpic commands \textboundary, etc.
Added parameters pair label_adjust and numeric label_sep.
These are used in grafbase.mp for shifting labels. They are also
used there and in grafbase.mf for positioning and sizing textboundary,
textoval and textellipse.
Added test for ClipOn to dashing code, plotsymbol and plotnodes.
arrowdraw now checks for hlen > 0 before drawing head.
Complete rewrite of axes code and drawing of hash marks on axes. Four
new axes added leftaxis, etc.
Changed code for grid so it is fitted to the coordinates: integer
multiples of xspace and yspace are plotted. Added gridlines.
Changed arcppp in grafbase for more robustness (I hope) and better
result on small values of sweep.
REVISION 0.4.16 beta, July 28--30 2001:
-- Changed name of \textboundary to \tlabelboundary and then
\tlabelrect.
-- Changed name of \textoval to \tlabeloval.
-- Changed name of \textellipse to \tlabelellipse.
-- Added "star form" of each that defines the curve without placing the
label.
-- Renamed grafbase command textboundary to textrect.
Replaced the four commands \leftaxis, etc., with single
command
\axis[<hlen>]{<one-axis>}
(example \axis{l}) and \borderaxes, etc., with
\doaxes[<hlen>]{<axis-list>}
(example \doaxes{lbrt} for the 4 borders).
Recoded \mfp@now so that only 1 count register is used.
REVISION 0.4.17 beta, July 28--Aug 10, 2001:
Changed grafbase.mp commands textrect, etc., so the first two
parameters (dimensions of some unspecified text) became one parameter,
which could be either of type pair (the two dimensions), string, or
picture (e.g., a btex...etex expression). In the latter two cases,
Metapost measures it and uses those dimensions to make a rectangle, etc.
Gave all commands that take a [s] smoothness specification the
option to make it [s<tension>] to draw the curve more tightly.
Commands affected: \function, \parafcn, \plrfcn, \btwnfcn and
\plrregion. This necessitated changes in grafbase code to mkfcn so
that it accepts a tension parameter. Plus changes to all the macros that
call it: parafcn, xfcn, function, rfcn, and plrfcn. Those that
are used by mfpic, like function, were altered as follows. The name was
changed to tfunction, it was given a tension parameter and the call to
mkfcn passes that parameter. A new macro named function simply calls
tfunction with default tension. This was to make the new grafbase
accept old files generated by mfpic. Those macros not used by mfpic
(rfcn and xfcn) simply call mkfcn with tension equal to 1.
Redid doplot, plotsymbol, and plotnodes so that the plotting symbol
can be a picture as well as a path. If a path, it is scaled by the scale
parameter. A picture is not scaled, since this is essentially not
possible in Metafont and since it is expected that in Metapost it will
be a btex...etex expression and the size is determined by the font.
Because this is expected to be the typical case, the picture is shifted
so that its center at the chosen position (instead of the left
baseline). This is not done in Metafont since finding the center of a
picture is non-trivial. In grafbase.mp the first parameter is also
allowed to be a string, and is then converted to a picture with the
infont operator. In all other cases it reverts to a default dot scaled
by the second parameter.
Changed the \mfpic command so both optional parameters may be omitted
(scale 1 is then assumed). Also, the first parameter is no longer saved
in \@param. That was not a serious problem, but I did experience a
hard-to-debug problem from using the same temporary name in another
command. (It seems that \@param is not expanded until \@xconv and
\@yconv are used in tlabels, and I included a redefinition of \@param
in a command that calls \tlabel).
Added EOL, `*', `"' and `$' to the list of symbols whose catcodes
are saved, changed while reading mfpic.tex, and restored at the end.
`$' is put in category 12 and used then in several \if tests for empty
arguments (previously `!' was used, then `@'. (Changed again a couple
of times!)
REVISION 0.4.18 beta, Aug 10--20, 2001:
Added point size option to \grid.
Added a macro \plottext similar to \plotsymbol except instead of a
symbol, it takes a bit of TeX text. The macro runs entirely in TeX,
issuing a sequence of \tlabel commands.
Changed grid and gridlines so the lines and points are fitted to the
pixel grid. We now use safedraw on
hroundpair(zconv(p1))--hroundpair(zconv(point)) instead of on
zconv((p1)--(p2)). When grid and gridlines are used with the same
parameters, this seems to make the picture periodic.
Added \plrgrid and \plrpatch.
Added \piechart and \piewdge.
Removed \d@adv, \i@mul, \i@div, \q@mul as it turns out they are
either no longer used or unnecessary: \i@mul and \i@div, were only
used in \q@mul and it isn't needed as \x= 1.2\x works for fdims.
\d@adv seems to have disappeared from use.
REVISION 0.4.19 beta, Aug 20--26, 2001:
Added \mfpicnumber to set the number of the next character or figure.
Removed explicit references to gcode, instead of writing
beginmfpic(incr gcode), \mfpic now writes
beginmfpic(\number\mfp@count). This way TeX's understanding of the
current figure number and Metafont's understanding are guaranteed to be
the same. The opening code of beginmfpic sets gcode in case any existing
files make use of it. This simplifies maintenance, and such things as
\noship and \mfpicnumber.
Speaking of which, added code to \noship to set a switch so
\endmfpic could skip placing an empty box. I hope this makes an
mfpic environment a typesetting no-op. The only worry is that an
invisible character or box might creep into the output. (It hasn't yet,
that I've noticed, but checking would require testing virtually every
macro we've defined that can be used in an mfpic.)
REVISION 0.4.20 beta, Aug 26--Sep 1, 2001:
Added \barchart (it was easy after \piechart) after seeing comments
on gnuplot list that deprecated pie charts as a means of conveying
quantitative information. The rectangles become available as
\chartbar{<n>}. Where <n> is the number of the bar.
Changed the code (again!) for shade in grafbase.mf. I was certain
there had to be a faster way. The key turned out to be not to do a
double loop. Instead, draw the bottom row of pixels in one loop, and
then copy that row in a separate loop. The original looped O(nm) times
if n and m are the dimensions of the rectangle. The new one loops,
O(n+m) times. A slight extra bit of efficiency in coding is obtained
by finding the smallest repeating pattern and repeating that (avoids
shifting every other row). This turned out to be two dots at a 45 degree
angle placed \shadespace apart. Then copy _that_ picture.
I was worried that this algorithm had to copy a much larger picture the
second loop, but it seemed to make little difference. The bottleneck
seems to be the loop overhead. There was a seven-fold speed increase in
shading a 100pt by 100pt rectangle with a \shadespace of 1.2pt
(this is about the most dots MiKTeX's Metafont could handle). I came up
with another algorithm that is O(m/n + \log n), when n < m. But it
was only marginally better at the sizes Metafont could handle. Plus it
traded memory for speed. It built a shading rectangle of size at least
n/8 in O(\log n) iterations and then tiled with O(m/n) of them.
This could require up to an additional 12.5% more memory, as the last
row or column could overshoot by up to n/8.
Changed timing so that \mfp@count is initialized to 1, and
incremented only in \endmfpic (where it is in the code skipped if
\noship is used).
Changed \newdef to \def for \arrow so eplain won't generate a
complaint.
REVISION 0.4.21 beta, Sept 1--10, 2001:
Got tired of typing "\macro" so I changed it to \mac. Also got
tired of "\vskip\myskip", etc., so I wrote \bcd and \ecd to
bracket the headers of command descriptions. For examples, I wrote
\bex and \eex. Changed the font for \prog to small caps and for
\opt to sans serif. Added \null to the end of the definition of \TeX
for \spacefactor reasons (saw this somewhere).
Wrote a \myverbatim macro for mfpicdoc.tex since header.tex's
verbatim wouldn't work for me. Completely rewrote \head and \subhead
for better spacing and page breaks. (One of these days I will give them
numbers and perhaps translate everything to either LaTeX or eplain to
provide cross references.)
Added SolidStar to symbols allowed by \plot, etc. Changed grafbase
code so that Star produces an open five-pointed star instead of the
asterisk previously drawn. Added Asterisk in case anyone prefers the
old way.
Separated the part of \mfp@rwdata that writes the rendering code from
the part that writes the data. This is for later enhancements. The
wrapper that writes the rendering code is called \do@datafile. Took
out of \mfp@rwdata the code that wraps the point in (redundant)
parentheses. Now the parentheses _must_ be added by \using.
Changed the name of \mfpic-package to MFPicpackagE, (part of
the paranoia that catcodes of punctuation might be changed).
Added code to several commands to test for empty optional arguments. The
reason: when an optional argument has two parts, as in \plotdata[s1.2]
the code splits it up as [#1#2] so that s is assigned to
#1 and 1.2 is assigned to #2. If 1.2 is omitted, then #2 is
empty, but if both parts are accidentally omitted, then the closing
bracket is assigned to #1 and TeX searches for another right
bracket. This can cause extremely unhelpful error messages from internal
commands generated much later. Now, a command like \plotdata[] is
treated as if there were no optional argument: default values are used.
The user can deduce from incorrect output where an error occurred.
Did the above for \tlabel, but only for the second part of the
optional parameter (laziness).
Added commands similar to \rotatepath: \shiftpath{p}, \scalepath{p,sc},
\xscalepath{x,sc}, \yscalepath{y,sc} and \slantpath{y,sl}. "p" is a
point "sc" is a scale factor, "x" is an x-coordinate, "y" is a
y-coordinate and "sl" is a slant factor. These commands accept a
following path and pass back the corresponding transformed path (to
preceding prefix macros).
Released to alpha testers.
REVISION 0.4.22 beta, Sept 11--22, 2001:
Added \reflectpath{p1,p2}, \xyswappath and \yslantpath{x,sl}. Added
also \xslantpath as a synonym for \slantpath.
Removed grouping in \mftitle that inadvertently caused \tmtitle's
argument to be omitted from the .log file. Rewrote both to call a
third macro. The third macro loads the argument in a token list and
writes to the .mf file. \mftitle supplies the grouping to preserve
the token variable. \tmtitle also adds the grouping, plus writes to
the .log and to the document.
Redid \tlabel so that it checks for completely empty optional
parameter.
Also avoid duplicating every \@...tlabel command. Only ever did that
to avoid the message about rotation being ignored in the \nomplabels
case. Somewhere along the way handling of default optional parameters
made that moot.
Now \tlabel begins a group, then sets \tlabel@rot to empty (not
zero!) if mplabels is not in effect, then passes
"[\tlabel@vpos\tlabel@hpos\tlabel@rot]" as the optional parameter. The
two different commands \@tlabel and \@@tlabel ultimately end the
group. This necessitated changing a number of commands that call for
tlabels: I thought it more efficient to say
\if@mfp@mplabels\expandafter\@tlabels\else\@@tlabels\fi...
than to call \tlabel directly. But now that would unbalance the
grouping.
Somehow I overwrote the version of mfpic.tex in which I made the above
three paragraphs of changes with the previous version. So I did it all
again, but now it does the following. \tlabel starts a group and calls
two different commands: if no "[]" follows, it defines \tlabel@rot
to be empty under \nomplabels; and if "[]" follows, it calls
\tlabeljustify. Finally it calls either \@@tlabel or \@tlabel,
depending on mplabels, feeding the arguments \tlabel@vpos,
\tlabel@hpos and \tlabel@rot. This ensures that insufficient optional
parameters produce default results, as \tlabeljustify does default
things with empty parameters.
In grafbase: push vtr in bcoords command and pop it in ecoords.
Added vtr:=ztr shifted -zconv((0,0)); to apply_t. It seems coords
and apply_t were broken ever since I defined vconv in terms of vtr
instead of zconv.
Added \@firstoftwo and \@secondoftwo and rewrote several commands to
use them, including \@if@mfp@beforefileopen..
REVISION 0.5.0 beta, Sept 24--Oct25, 2001:
Change comment written at the top of the output file. Now includes the
name of the output file, as well as the \jobname of the TeX source
that produced it.
Changed how \grid handles optional point size. Now it writes a command
vgrid that takes the extra parameter (and the old grid just calls
vgrid with default parameter).
Made \mfpic and \endmfpic write the source line number to the
output for debugging use.
Added token list \every@tlabel and a command \everytlabel for
setting it (and writing the settings to the .mp file when mplabels
is in effect.) In order to make this local to mfpic
environments, now \mfpic writes "verbatimtex \begingroup etex" to
output and \endmfpic ends the group (under mplabels).
Renamed \if@graphfileexists to \ifmfpicFirstTime which
required reversing the sense of all \if... tests. This will allow the
user to override the behavior of mfpic in unusual circumstances.
Restored the command that expands to a backslash with category 12, for
writing the outer token \newtoks to the output file.
Because \mfsrc ends with \ignorespaces (should it?) commands
can generate a space under metafont but not under metapost with
mplabels (because they write TeX code to the output). I have therefore
started to look out for such differences and am adding \ignorespaces
when I notice them.
Released to CTAN, Oct ??, 2001.
REVISION 0.5.01 beta
This modification actually occurred in February 2002, but I made it on
version 0.5.0, correcting a small bug by adding some braces around the
point arguments of \tlabel in a couple of places. The problem was that
Metapost code in the point argument could contain parentheses or commas,
and these had to be hidden inside braces. The code of \tlabels and
other commands would read this argument twice so two levels of braces
were needed, but that would cause errors in other contexts. The internal
braces in the right places meant the user need only use one. All of this
was only a problem with mplabels.
REVISION 0.5.02 alpha, Oct 26--Nov 8, 2001:
Put most of the catcode changes (in the "paranoia" section of
mfpic.tex) in a command \mfp@sanitize for possible reuse.
In preparation for a planned enhancement, I have divided \@figmac into
three parts: the set-up, write, and post-write phases. The idea is that,
e.g., \@curve[1.2] will do the setup, and write the code
tcurve(1.2, false) but not the points or the ending semicolon, then
close with the all-purpose macro \@figmacdata. This macro will scoop up
the last parameter (listing the points), write them to output, adding
the semicolon, and then issue the post-write code. Why? Ultimately I
would like to be able to present the data in more than one form.
\@figmacdata would detect the form and do the appropriate thing. In
particular I would like to be able to do something like
\curve[1.2]\datafile{file.dat} to draw a curve connecting the points
listed in file.dat.
Have actually changed the definition of \curve and \cyclic to use
this scheme, although \@figmacdata just writes the inline data points
to output. Shouldn't be unusually hard to make it open the file handle
and call \mfp@rwdata. I will first try to organize the opening,
reading, writing and closing of files into reusable modules.
REVISION 0.5.03 alpha, Nov 8, 2001--???:
Further modified \@figmacdata: Split it in two. First, \mfp@writelist
writes the list, enclosed in parentheses and followed by a semicolon,
then issue \@figmacend. This is because lists are also used by
"non-figmacs", like \xmarks and \point. For these I just use
\mfp@writelist. Perhaps it wouldn't hurt to include \@figmacend on
those, but I wasn't prepared to chance it. Also put the common
combination \@figmacstart\mfsrc{#1}\@figmacdata in a new macro
\@listmac.
Now all those macros that take a list as last argument (thank goodness
it always _is_ the last argument) follow the scheme. This includes
\xmarks, \ymarks, \lmarks, \bmarks, \rmarks, \tmarks, \point,
\plotsymbol, \piechart, \barchart, \polyline, \polygon, \fcncurve,
\curve, \cyclic, \qspline, \closedqspline, \cspline,
\closedcspline, and \turtle. Ultimately, I may make \@figmacdata
write data from a file (if the next token is \datafile) or data listed
inline as if in a file (if the next token is \inline).
I rewrote the code in \@mfpic that loads the figure into \@wholegraph
so that when \ifmfpicdraft is true then it is skipped completely and
\@wholegraph is just set to an empty box. Then, at the end of \@mfpic,
if \ifmfpicdraft is true, the figure number in \tt is set as a
\tlabel (so the size of the figure will automatically adjust to
accommodate it).
Oops! Had to change the above behavior: \tlabel doesn't expand its
contents when writing to the .mp file in mplabels. So it is
impossible to get \mfp@count (the picture number) written as a number.
Rather than have to write the definition of \mfp@count to the output
file, I changed the code that loads the figure into \@wholegraph to put
the figure number into the box as straight text. Now, the figure number
may again overwrite the boundaries of the box, but that's OK, I guess,
since it's just a temporary situation.
REVISION 0.5.04 alpha, ???--April 11, 2002:
Added \@XP which expands to three \expandafters.
Changed what the truebbox option writes to the .mf file. The scope
in Metafont should now more closely match the scope in TeX.
Added options draft, final, and nowrite (as well as command
versions \mfpicdraft, \mfpicfinal, and \mfpicnowrite) which should
avoid including the pictures (draft) or include the pictures (final),
overriding automatic decisions. Option nowrite avoids writing anything
to the .mf file.
Made several assignments, such as \mfp@count, \@graphfont, etc.,
global, in case the command \opengraphsfile is issued inside a group.
Rewrote \tlabel and friends so that the point arguments could
optionally be enclosed in braces. This was done by checking for a left
parenthesis with \mfp@ifnextchar and branching on that. This allowed
me to change the gblabel command to accept a list of points, and now
\tlabel can, under mplabels accept a list of points in braces.
Completely reorganized the data file reading macros (much smaller and
free of \loop...\repeat constructs). Also added the previously
mentioned capability to replace any list after a macro such as
\curve{...} with the construct such as \curve\datafile{<file>} to
construct the list from the data in file
Changed explicit value of 5 data points per line to the value of
\mfpdataperline when plotting data files.
Added error messages \nodatafileerror and \emptydatafileerror.
Added command resizedrawpen to grafbase to unclutter the
output file.
Collected the common code in \xmarks, \ymarks, etc., so that now they
are implemented with \marks x, etc.
Added aliases \lattice and \gridpoints for \grid.
Changed the option handling in \tlabel so that it is translated into
integer values and \ifcase can be used, making for simpler conditional
code. Added \mfp@justifyerror to the \tlabeljustify command, to
occur if an invalid letter is used.
Added \extra@tlabel command at the end of \@tlabel and \@@tlabel.
Redefining this makes it easier to write macros looping through many
\tlabel commands.
REVISION 0.5.05 alpha, April 16, 2002:
Corrected bug in \mfpverbtex which caused # symbols to be doubled in
the output: simply change catcode of # before reading the verbatimtex
material into the token list.
Remove \DeclareGraphicsRule commands issued in mfpic.tex so
as not to interfere with the graphics package error checking. Instead
the equivalent is done inside a group for each picture with
\@namedef{Gin@rule@.\mfp@count}.
Added a command index to \mfpicdoc.tex. The distribution now includes
a recent version of eplain.tex for the indexing macros and the actual
index mfpicdoc.ind. The makeindex style file that was used,
mfpic.ist, is also included.
REVISION 0.5.06 alpha, April 16--May 7, 2002:
After installing new MiKTeX and forgetting to set localfont, I found
that textrect, textoval and textellipse (in grafbase.mf) fail due
to arithmetic overflow. This is because rather simple text can be (say)
40pt by 40pt. Since that is 400 by 400 pixels (under mode:=ljfour),
and we have to compute numbers on the order of their product, we exceed
the 32K limit on numbers. Changed these commands to do computations in
graph coordinates. That is at least resolution independent. Also change
some formulas involving sqrt to instead use ++ or abs to minimize
such problems.
Updated most docs. Changed mfpic.ist so it will write an mfpic package
comment to the top of mfpicdoc.ind.
REVISION 0.5.07 alpha, May 7--June 25, 2002:
Added \usingpairdefault to reset the \using specification to the
default. Also \usingnumericdefault for commands that take a numeric
list (equivalent to \using{#1 #2}{#1} ).
Documented \marks<axis> commands.
REVISION 0.5g alpha, June 26--July 31, 2002:
Changed version numbering scheme so LaTeX file utilities like the
snapshot package are better served.
Change the graphic inclusion to use \@setmfpicgraphic which, in
addition to executing \setmfpicgraphic, also runs any additional
commands that may be needed and should be transparent to the user. These
include the above setting of the graphics inclusion rule, and now also a
scheme for recovering the bounding box (for future feature allowing
truebbox without mplabels). The graphics package makes this hard by
not saving it globally except in \@gtempa, which hardly seems safe to
rely on. Nevertheless that is what I use now, though it doesn't get used
yet.
Changed \DeclareOption* to print a warning or a message (depending on
whether graphics was already loaded or not) instead of just passing
the option on to graphics package).
The default verbatimtex stuff that was written to the out file in
\opengraphsfile is now stored in a token register
\mfp@commonverbatimtex and then written.
\opengraphsfile now checks for the existence of a file with the
extension of the current value of \mfp@count (default 1) in case the
user changes its value (with \mfpicnumber) before that command.
mfpic.tex now sets it to 1 rather than rely on \opengraphsfile to do
so.
Changed \tlabel to place its contents in a simple left aligned
\halign. This makes it possible to right-align or center multi-line
labels with an \hfill or \hfil on left.
Corrected bugs in file read/write (\plotdata, etc.): Moved whitespace
resetting to \@processdatafile, and changed one \def in
\mfp@rwdataloop to \edef.
Moved the LaTeX2e graphics rule stuff to \mfpic, \usemetapost now just
saves the graphics rule signature ("eps" or "mps") for use in that
stuff.
Remove eplain.tex, substituting indexing.tex which contains only(?)
macros necessary to process the one indexing command actually used in
mfpicdoc.tex, and the two-column printing of the index.
REVISION 0.5h alpha, Aug 1--6, 2002:
Added code to \@setmfpicgraphic to retain the lower left corner of the
picture under metapost. I did this by redefining \Gin@def@bp to make
its definitions (of \Gin@llx, etc.) global. Then added that info to
\@xconv and \@yconv. This allows truebbox to work without mplabels.
Added code to graphbase.mp that keeps track of maximum bounding box of
all the text labels and to adjust the figure's bounding box if that
extends past the boundary of the mfpic environment. This allows labels
to expand the size of the graph (as documented) in the remaining case:
with mplabels but without truebbox.
This requires that any user who redefines \setmfpicgraphic must also
redefine a command \getmfpicoffset that stores the coordinates of the
lower left corner in the macros \mfpicllx and \mfpiclly.
Reverted to the previous \tlabel method of producing multiline
labels. The \halign method (specifically the \let\\=\cr) produces
an error when either of the packages latexsym or amsfonts is used. So it
is not (yet) possible to right align or center multiline labels.
Reverted back when I discovered that \def\\{\cr} did _not_ conflict
and seems to work just as well. It is again possible to right align and
center multiline labels.
Added \gclip rendering macro (did no one ever miss this?), that clips
the current picture to the interior of the following path. And added an
example to *objs.tex.
REVISION 0.5i alpha, Aug 7--12, 2002:
Rearranged the endmfpic code of grafbase.mp so that truebbox, clip
and mplabels interact properly, meaning that text which is clipped off
_doesn't_ expand the bounding box.
Announced to mfpic mailing list. Maybe this will become version 0.6 beta.
(Ha!)
REVISION 0.5j alpha, Aug 12--15, 2002:
Changed name of \marks command (introduced in 0.5.04) to \axismarks
to avoid name clash with \eTeX primitive command (reported by Guy
Worthington).
REVISION 0.5k alpha, Aug 15--26, 2002:
Rearrangement of \begingroup-s at some point caused a problem with
\datafile commands: the \@figmacend was issued inside a group.
(reported by Jaromir Kuben).
I moved the location of \@figmacstart and \@figmacend and that
solved it but caused a problem with \plotdata, which reused that code.
Solved by putting an appropriate \@figmacend in the \plotdata code.
REVISION 0.5l alpha, Aug 26--29, 2002:
Changed the code that saves the lower left corner of the picture under
metapost. Instead of making \Gin@llx, etc., global, I redefine
\Gread@parse@bb to store them globally in our own macros. This
redefinition happens only in the \mfpic environment (in fact only
inside the box where the graphic is included).
I settled on this as having almost no side effects. Perhaps there is a
reason the \Gin@* commands are local even though no one on
comp.text.tex came up with one.
Also, since now the only \begingroup/\endgroup pair in the
file read/write code is in one place: the \@processdatafile command, I
deleted all the \global in front of \read commands.
REVISION 0.5m alpha, Aug 29--30, 2002:
Updates to *.txt, readme.1st, and documentation.
Changed \mfp@ifnextchar so that when looking for the next token, it
will skip over \relax. This means one can put the optional argument on
another line even when \preservelines is in effect (at which time the
line end character is active and has been \let equal to \relax)
Change \@figmaclist and \@mfp@writelist so they preserve lines.
Since all commands that write lists of data to the output file
ultimately run one of these, all those commands preserve lines. Then I
removed \preservelines from \mfpic. Now we no longer need the
caution about putting a macro and its arguments on the same line.
REVISION 0.5n alpha, Aug 30--Sep 04, 2002:
Allow \tlabelsep and \tlabeloffset to have any <dimen> argument. I
was so stupid: it was just a matter of setting the TeX dimensions first
and then writing their values to the output.
Documented \mfpdataperline. Also changed it to a macro rather than a
\count because LaTeX users are unfamiliar with count registers
(\newcounter, yes, \newcount, no). I could have called it
\c@mfpdataperline, but then it wouldn't be user-level for plain TeX.
Changed "\ifnum\mfp@n=\mfpdataperline" to
"\ifnum\mfp@n<\mfpdataperline" and exchanged the true and false clauses.
Just in case some user sets \mfpdataperline to some number which is not a
positive integer.
Added \space to "\mfsrc{verbatimtex\endgroup\space etex}", just in
case TeX could enter a state where it doesn't append a space when it
writes the \endgroup.
REVISION 0.5o alpha, Sep 04--06, 2002:
Corrected LTXMFobj.tex and LTXMPobj.tex. After testing various
combinations of mplabels and truebbox, I'd incorrectly added these
options to the former file and failed to restore them to the latter.
REVISION 0.5p alpha, Sep 06--09, 2002:
Added commands \setpapersize and \setpagegeometry to header.tex.
Now the preamble of almost every .tex file in the docs directory is
reduced to using these two commands.
Deleted old verbatim macros which were no longer used.
Removed save piecenter; from grafbase. This variable was documented to
be set by the piechart command, but saving it made it unavailable.
Corrected the example concerning \datafile with \xmarks: the
parameters of \using needed a space between them.
REVISION 0.5q alpha, Sep 09--12, 2002:
Multiple documentation refinements.
Removed \if@mfp@metafont, using only the switch \if@mfp@metapost.
Added \mfp@ifdefined: it checks if a token is neither \undefined nor
\relax. Used in macros to detect format. Moved definition of
\@firstoftwo and \@secondoftwo before it.
Made some definitions in \usemetapost global, in case it is
mistakenly issued inside a group.
Removed \@eatspacedef since it was used only once to define something,
and it was shorter to define it directly.
Changed all \ifx in \@@arrowoption to \if in case someone wants to
pass the the letter as a macro
In axis code, changed `\x to simply `x lest \x have some
definition and some TeX state causes it to be expanded.
Gave \newsavepic a definition closer to \newsavebox, which uses
\@ifundefined rather than strictly testing against \undefined.
REVISION 0.6 beta, Sep 12, 2002:
Uploaded to CTAN.
REVISION 0.6a alpha, Sep 12--Nov 5, 2002.
Added \let\par\relax in the definition of \@mfpic to
nullify blank lines in user code. Needed since I stopped using
\preservelines. (Reported by Jaromir Kuben.) Put in commands to
restore \par to its normal meaning in labels and captions.
REVISION 0.6b beta, Nov 6--, 2002.
Incorrect sign on sinh function in grafbase.
REVISION 0.6c beta, Nov 6--, 2002.
Bounding box had the horizontal and vertical data reversed if all
of the following three options were selected: metapost, mplabels and
clip.
REVISION 0.63 alpha
Mfpic:
Added code to write into the graphs file a test of the major version
number (to assure that the files mfpic.tex and graphbase.mf/p are
comparable).
Added a switch \in@mfpicenv that is true inside an mfpic environment and
false outside. This allows macros to make global changes outside and
local changes inside, helping TeX and Metafont stay in sync. Modified
some commands to use it (clip and truebbox options, so far). Added
\mfp@local which expands to nothing inside and mfpic environment and
to \global outside.
Changed \@dummy to \mfp@dummy (mfpic.tex) lest its name clash with
other packages.
Added a \partialpath{a,b} command. It's argument is two fractions
separated by a comma and produces the subpath of the following path f
that goes from a*length(f) to b*length(f). (Hmmm...so
\partialpath{1,0} would inefficiently reverse a path!)
Also added \subpath{a,b} to give the equivalent of the MF code
subpath (a, b) of <following path>
Added command \closed[<tension>]{<method>} where <method> is l, b,
s, cb, or u so that, for example, \closed[2]{s} does the same as
\sclosed, except that added or modified links will have tension equal
to 2. Then I defined the previous commands in terms of this one (tension is
ignored for \lclosed and \cbclosed since they specify exactly what the
link should be.) Default for <tension> is 1.
Moved \fdef to a global location and added "save #1;" to its
definition. Functions defined with it should now be local if it is used
in an mfpic environment and global otherwise.
Redefine \+ for entire mfpic.tex. Avoids somewhat complicated
work-around of its outerness in \usemetapost. Restore previous meaning
at end of file.
Added \@bsphack and \@esphack (as in LaTeX).
Rewrote \tlabelrect, etc., so that they take a second optional
parameter: the label justification. Made the current \tlabel defaults
the default for \tlabel<path> also. Might change this to [cc] after
talking to Jaromir.
Changed \store to be usable as a prefix command. It still takes a
second argument but doesn't wrap anything around it, so
\store{m}\circle{...} is as valid as \store{m}{\circle{...}}. But now
\xscalepath{0,2}\store{m}\circle{...}
is also valid, storing the untransformed circle. It is written as a
\@rendmac so that it turns off automatic path rendering. It invokes a
new grafbase command stored , which stores the path and passes it on
(as the other prefix macros do). This may have restored the old behavior
(prior to 0.2.9.10 alpha), but I can't tell, since I never had any
experience using those versions and don't know why the change was made.
Streamlined \arrow so that instead of a chain of 4 macros (that all
did the same thing!), each calling the next, it loops until no more
optional arguments are found.
Renamed \mfpicdebugwrite to \mfpDBwrite to streamline the source
file. Later renamed to \mfp@DBlog to remind me that it only writes to
the .log .
Change \getmfpicoffset and \preparemfpicgraphic so they take an
argument: the name of the figure file. The default versions do nothing
with it. Changed \@setmfpicgraphic so it calls them with the name of
file. In case a power user needed the file name in his redefinition.
Shortened \usemetapost. Defined as much as possible outside it, and
include only what needs to be changed. E.g., we no longer redefine
\@setmfpicgraphic inside it (nor \preparemfpicgraphic in the
non-LaTeX version).
Rearranged code so that \usemetapost is defined in three ways instead
of two: LaTeX2e, plain pdfTeX and plain TeX. Formerly the second two
were combined in one which contained an \ifpdf-\else-\fi construct. That
is now moved to an outer level. Shortened the name of \if@mfp@pdftex to
\if@mfp@pdf since pdftex could be used to produce dvi output, and we
want this to be true only when pdf is being produced.
Added \mfcmd (adds semicolon to argument) and \mflist (wraps argument
in parentheses). Done so that we can delay reading the argument and
therefore preserve lines. Both of these and \mfsrc now call \@mfwrite
with an appropriate argument. It initiates \preservelines and
continues with \@mfcmd, \@mflist, or \@mfsrc. These read the
argument and end with \@mfsrc, which ends line preserving.
Rearranged code of \@figmac. It now issues \@startfigtrue before
writing its argument and doesn't do \@imrendtrue. This allows it to
end with the code to read the argument, and avoids some cases of having
to read large arguments before \preservelines is issued. There was
only one case where the timing mattered: \connect, and there we needed
the current order!
Simplified the scheme for list macros (\mfp@writedata). The above
rearrangement meant there was no longer any need for different treatment
of figmacs and non-figmacs.
Grafbase:
Added code to grafbase file to test if the major version of mfpic
(assuming it is input by an mfpic generated file) and that of
grafbase.mf/p are comparable. Added a boolean MFPIC that is true if
the test succeeds. Not used yet.
Rewrote most of the arc commands in grafbase, focusing on trying to make
any points that were explicitly specified into actual nodes of the path
(i.e., use nothing that could result in round-off error) plus trying to
increase robustness.
"Corrected" cbclosed command in grafbase. Its code used to put in one
cubic B-spline link and connect that to the beginning and end of the
path f with two ordinary MF Bezier path joins. Now it connects with
three cubic B-spline links, the middle one being the same as before.
removed w, d, and h as internal variables because of another user
name clash, this time with \fdef(h)... .
Rewrote grafbase messages and error messages for consistency and
pithiness.
Changed gblabel to newlabel, but gblabel remains as an interface for old
files, calling newlabel. There are now three parameters rather than four
for horizontal and vertical adjustment. The first gives the fraction
of the text left of the point of placement. The third is a
boolean. If false, the second parameter is taken as the absolute
fraction of the text below this point. If true, it represents the same
except the depth of the text is ignored. This (.5,0,true) gives [Bc]
placement, while (.5,0,false) gives [bc].
Added textrectx, textellipsex and textovalx which now allow horizontal
and vertical adjustment and rotation, just like gblabel. The original
commands just call it with the old default (centered, not rotated).
Rewrote nearly all error messages in grafbase.mf/p. Changed "GUBED" to
"END DEBUG". (That has always bothered me.)
Reintroduced "bounds" to the mfpic file. It seemed a reasonable
shorthand, replacing four lines of code with one. And has been around
forever.
Reexamined clipping, trying to make sure that when ClipOn is true,
nothing is written outside the clipping paths. Except there are things
drawn for debugging purposes, so I added noclip() which executes its
contents in a group where ClipOn is set to false. Added DoClip(v) as a
shorthand for:
if ClipOn and (ClipPath > 0) : clipsto (v, ClipPath); fi
Correspondingly changed several commands to write to a temporary picture
variable, which is then DoClip-ed before adding to active_plane. This
turned out to be a prescient act for the purpose of using color in MF
(see below).
Changed P1 in headpath (giving the direction of the arrowhead)
from "direction n of g" to "point n of g - precontrol n of g".
This gives the arrowhead from \arrow\rect{...} a reasonable direction
without having to rotate it +/- 45 degrees.
Determined that the filling commands shade , polkadot and tess (all
these are my doing) did not respect aspect_ratio. Changed all of
them to invoke a macro, filledwith, that returns a rectangular picture
tiled with shifted copies of a given picture. This macro respects
aspect_ratio (i.e, invokes .t_ where it should -- I hope).
Introduced color to Metafont (gray levels only): made color synonymous
with numeric; assigned numeric gray levels to the variables red,
green, etc. Defined the color commands (rgb, RGB, cmyk, gray and
named) to produce appropriate gray levels. Added macro makegray for
this purpose. Allow black or white in drawing commands and gray
levels in filling commands. Gray fill is implemented by a new macro
shaded which is similar in some ways to the internal code of shade and
may one day replace it. Right now shade uses round dots and respects
shadewd and the spacing parameter. But shaded just builds a square
picture which is either two black almost-squares in a white background
(gray levels > .5) or two white almost-squares in a black background.
Works well in simple tests so far.
Changed the code executed if mode is unknown back to switching on a
default mode, but this time ljfour instead of cx.
Removed the aspect_ratio scaling from resizedrawpen, and also from
the definition of drawpen and hatchpen. Added that scaling to
shpath.
Added partialpath and gsubpath to support mfpic's \partialpath
and \subpath .
Docs:
Changed this file (changes.tex) from a .tex file to a .txt file for
simplicity of maintenance.
Transcribed mfpicdoc.tex to a LaTeX file adding mfpdoc.sty to preserve
most of the previous formatting. Adds a table of contents; allows an index
without the extra files indexing.tex and mfpic.ist (both now removed).
Added hyperref, producing a linked .pdf file if pdflatex is used. Did
the same with grafdoc.tex and mf-revu.tex, except the latter has no
index. Have removed mppicdoc.tex since the small part of it that was
not already covered in mfpicdoc.tex has been added in an additional
appendix.
Made mfpic.dtx, mfpic.ins and grafbase.dtx files. Processing
mfpic.ins produces mfpic.tex and mfpic.sty from mfpic.dtx, plus
grafbase.mf, grafbase.mp and dvipsnam.mp from grafbase.dtx.
REVISION 0.64 alpha
Grafbase:
Rewrote the mfpic macro \polkadotwd so all it does is set the width
(omitting the code "thepolkadot := setdot(...)"). The grafbase polkadot
command now remakes the dot each time it is run. This is really just for
simplicity (for the \cs{polkadotwd} macro). Same was done for \shadewd
and shade. To change the shape of the dots used, I've added
shadedotpath and polkadotpath in addition to dotpath. The last is
now only used for dotted lines and grid.
Added command threeangles (suffix s) (expr A, B, C) that finds the
three angles of the triangle ABC and assigns them to the s1, s2, and
s3. Now used in arcppp and the new command circleppp . Later
threeangles was replaced by three calls to a new vardef: cornerangle
(A,B,C) , which was useful on its own.
Added circleppp producing the circle through three points.
Added circlecp producing the circle with center at a given point, and
passing through a given point.
Added circlepps producing the circle completing the arc produced by
the corresponding arcpps. These three form their circle from arcs,
ensuring that the circle (a) begins at the first given point on the
circumference, (2) has all the given points as nodes (though more may
have to be added, of course), and (iii) it is at least as robust as the
arc commands, into which a lot of thought was put.
Added commands that produce circles related to triangle. A triangle Q
is, by definition, required to be a closed path in the form
Q0--Q1--Q2--cycle.
circumcircle Q produces the circle through all three corners
incircle Q produces the inscribed circle (inside the triangle
and tangent to all three sides)
excircle n of Q produces the exscribed circle opposite Q[n] (tangent
to Q[n-1]--Q[n+1], and to the extensions of
Q[n]--Q[n-1] and Q[n]--Q[n+1] outside the triangle)
ninepointcircle Q The circle through the base of all three altitudes,
through all three midpoints of the sides and through
the points on each median that is halfway
between the corner and the common intersection of
the medians.
And commands that produce points related to a triangle:
incenter Q center of incircle Q (= intersection of angle
bisectors)
circumcenter Q center of circumcircle Q
excenter n of Q center of excircle n of Q
ninepointcenter Q center of ninepointcircle Q
None of the triangle related command integrated into mfpic yet.
Added command pathcenter c which obtains the center of a circle c
(or a rectangle c!) by finding the intersection of the perpendicular
bisectors of two chords. It will happily find the "center" of any path.
Mfpic:
Rewrote \function, \plrfcn and \parafcn so they all simply define
\mfp@fcnname to the appropriate grafbase command name and call the
same macro to write the code. As with a lot of other commands, we now
write the old shorter commands when the new parameter (in this case the
tension) is absent: \function {...} produces "function (true) (...)"
while \function[s1.5]{...} produces "tfunction (true) (1.5) (...)".
In retrospect it would have made cleaner code if I had placed the extra
"t" at the end of the name and the tension parameter at the beginning of
the parameters.
Made similar changes to \btwnfcn and \plrregion .
All the commands that have an optional argument for the color (\draw,
\gfill, \arrow and all the hatching commands) now have an empty value
for color as the default. When the color is empty we write the old
simpler commands. That is, "\draw..." or "\draw[]..." produces
"drawn ..." rather than "colordrawn (drawcolor) ..." Trying to
streamline the output file.
Added optional argument to \circle (similar to the ones for \arc). So
the circle through three points can be easily drawn, filled, etc.
Renamed \@graphdp to \@graphbot, since it is not the TeX depth, but
the coordinate of the bottom recalculated after each \tlabel . Also
\@graphht -> \@graphtop for the consistency.
Streamlined some aspects of tlabel macros, reducing number of
macros in the chain. Also keep track of the \@graphleft, etc.,
calculations so that we can later set the label on the graph with only
two kerns and no \if-clauses. \tb@moveright is the accumulated value to
kern horizontally, and \tb@raise is the amount to move vertically.
Streamlined \tlabel<path> macros, including consolidating main code into
one, rather than two alternative macros.
Added \@firstofone and use it in place of \mfp@identity . Also use it
when passing a pair of coordinates for \tlabel : provides grouping that
is not stripped by parameter matching, but also not written into output
file.
Assigned numbers to axes: x=0, y=1, l=2, b=3, r=4, t=5 . Defined
\get@axisnum similar to \tlabeljustify to assign the numbers, and can
now use \ifnum in \axis and \ifcase in \axislabels to branch on.
This also consolidates the error message in one place.
Rewrote the \endmfpic debug messages to give me information I want to
see: compare \@graphleft and \@graphright with \wd\@wholegraph, etc.
Rewrote \plottext under the assumption that all points are specified
as in other plotting commands: pairs separated by commas (i.e., no
braces). Changed docs to reflect it.
Redid \axislabels so that it could proceed gracefully on an empty
argument. In fact...
Added \mfp@ifempty as an abbreviation for
\if~#1~\@xp\@firstoftwo \else \@xp\@secondoftwo\fi
to make several such changes possible. Redid \do@mtparam using it.
Docs:
Documented some aspects of MF naming conventions (basically: no
suffixes) and suggested only letters be used.
REVISION 0.65 alpha
Mfpic:
Rename \mfp@metaposttrue to \mfp@mposttrue, etc.
Since \@mfp@mposttrue is never otherwise used, we don't define it
(i.e., remove \newif command), instead, replace its use in
\mfp@mposttrue with \global\let\if@mfp@mpost\iftrue . Similar
changes for the false version and for other switches: \if@mfp@clip,
\if@mfp@centcapt (formerly \if@mfp@centercaptions), \if@mfp@mplabels
Added \mfp@ifmpost{1}{2} as shorthand for \if@mfp@mpost 1\else 2\fi.
Added \@ifmplabels{1}{2} as shorthand for \if@mfp@mplabels 1\else 2\fi.
Added \xxxfalse (initializations). Though unnecessary, it provides
documentation of the default.
Renamed \@if@mfp@beforefileopen to \@if@mfp@filenotopen (since it
could conceivably have been previously opened but then closed).
Added \setdatadashes, \setdatacolors, and setdatasymbols, to allow
the user to set the dashing style, colors and symbols used when
\dashedlines, \coloredlines , or \pointedlines (or \datapointsonly),
respectively, are in effect. (later removed them, see below).
Added \@nameuse and \@namedef and replaced a several lines of code
with shorter versions using them.
Added \@ifmtarg (from ifmtarg.sty) and use it when possible instead
of \mfp@ifempty
Reordered much of both mfpic.dtx and grafbase.dtx (many times!) to
make documentation more natural.
Rather extensive revision of \axislabels , mainly so that braces around
the text argument are not prematurely stripped (bug introduced when we
tried to "gracefully" handle empty portions of the arguments).
Added \@makeother and used it in \mfp@sanitize.
Removed a number of \newif's : those whose values are always set by
another command. These commands now contain \let\ifxxx\iftrue instead
of \xxxtrue . This saves a couple of strings of pool.
Added \mf@T for the frequently used string "true" , and \mf@F for
"false" .
Removed grafdoc.tex from the manifest (grafbase.dtx documents the
grafbase macros). Also removed mf-revu.tex (because I'm lazy).
But will add mfpguide.tex as a short intro/tutorial.
Set \@mfp@verbtexfalse after writing the verbatimtex in
\opengraphsfile (in case it a user tries to have more than one
\opengraphsfile command in a document).
The utility \mfp@gettoks that was only used in \tmtitle and
\mftitle has now been used to abbreviate similar \afterassignment
constructs elsewhere.
Rewrote \curve and \cyclic so both call the same command (as was
done some time ago with \polyline and \polygon though not documented
until now).
Rewrote \noship and added \stopshipping and \resumeshipping so that
shipping can be turned off for several figures.
Simplifies \mfpdatacomment so that it just sets the register
\@datacommentchar to the character code. Then \mfp@setcomment
changes the category of \@datacommentchar to 14 (comment).
Added \transformpath , similar to \applyT except that it is a
modification macro for figures. It's argument is a transformer
Added \cutoffafter {<obj>} and \cutoffbefore {<obj>} as prefix
macros that cut the following path after its intersection with the named
<obj> (a name defined with \store)
Added \trimpath{<dim1>,<dim2>} , a prefix macro that removes the part
of the following path within <dim1> of its start and within <dim2>
of its end.
Grafbase:
Added transformedpath (transformer) expr f that reads a path f , applies
the transformer and returns the result. This is to supply the correct
syntax for the \transformpath macro.
Added gbcutafter and gbcutbefore . Unlike the similarly named MP
macros, these try to cut off as much as possible. Later changed the
names to cutoffafter and cutoffbefore, but gave them standard mfpic
syntax: "vardef cutoffbefore (expr b) expr f =". Also reverted to
essentially the same as the MP definitions.
Added trimmedpath (expr a,b) to implement \trimpath .
Rewrote textovalx and textellipsex so they now simply call a common
command, xellipse with a switch set that affects only two lines of the
calculations.
Slightly revised MF handling of colors. Now the only real difference
between MF and MP is in one macro, makeclr , plus the "color" keyword
("color" still means "numeric" in MF). What makeclr does is accept
three parameters and calculate a gray level in MF, but simply return a
color triple in MP. Then rgb(r, g, b) means
makeclr(snapto(r), snapto(g), snapto(b))
while all other color functions (except named ) call rgb .
REVISION 0.66 alpha
Grafbase:
Will try to converge behavior of labels between options mplabels and
nomplabels . Therefor, we add the labels in grafbase on top of the
drawing, after any clipping. We do this in newgblabel (oh, yes, I
renamed newabel to newgblabel) by adding the label to their own
picture: currentlabels. Then currentlabels is added onto the picture
as the very last thing in endmfpic .
Added emin(x,y) and emax(x,y) as somewhat more efficient versions
of min() and max() . They are vardefs and take two expression
arguments rather than a text parameter with an arbitrary list.
Added the possibility for textrectx to be given "maximally" rounded
corners: each quarter circle meets the one at the nearest corner so the
end is a semicircle. This is done by allowing the radius parameter to be
a boolean. When it is true, maximal roundedness is used, when false the
corners are not rounded. Provided a mfpic interface by defining the
boolean variable roundends, which is true by default.
Added TruncateWarn and NoCycleWarn , that print common warning
messages.
Added pointcolor , the color in which points are drawn by pointd and
in which symbols are drawn by plotsymbol . Now implement pointd with
plotsymbol . However plotnodes , being a drawing command, uses
drawcolor .
Removed "withcolor fillcolor" from the definition of interior , which
is normally only used in grafbase.mp in some other command that has a
color parameter. The only really "benefit" of having it there was a
dubious one: plotsymbol produced fillcolor solid symbols and
drawcolor open ones. Now all are in pointcolor . Also moved a couple
of other instances of withcolor out of low level commands and into
higher level commands.
Removed the color parameter from thatchf . For MF to respond to
hatchcolor , the color has to be invoked when the hatching is added to
active_plane , and only the higher level command, thatch , does that.
Rearranged some of grafbase.dtx for documentation purposes. I am
trying to follow this order: bitwise operations, picture manipulation
commands with use-motivated names, and then the rendering commands that
use those to manipulate active_plane, finally followed by the graph
coordinate rendering commands.
Added vardefs pnt@#(f) , pre@#(f) and post@#(f) as abbreviations
for point @# of f , precontrol @# of f and postcontrol @# of f .
Changed a few "max (x,0)" to "abs(x)". These had mostly been not
well-thought-out attempts to gracefully handle erroneous negative values
of "x". The "abs(x)" versions avoid problems in more situations
Mfpic:
I will eventually move the import of the picture from the beginning of
the environment (\mfpic) to the end (\endmfpic). Labels (when TeX is
placing them) will be kept in a separate box, and it will be added onto
the picture at the end.
The optional parameter of \tlabelrect may now be the literal word
"roundends". This will make the radius of the quarter circles equal to
half the narrower dimension of the rectangle, giving the "rectangle"
semicircular ends.
Added \pointcolor for setting the color of points (for \point) and for
symbols (\plotsymbol), but \plotnodes is interpreted as a drawing
command, and so still uses \drawcolor.
Changed (again!) the name of \@if@mfp@filenotopen, this time to
\@if@mfp@fileisopen, reversing its sense, and reversed the order of all
commands.
Moved the undefining of \mfp@filename in \closegraphsfile outside
the conditional (just in case).
REVISION 0.67 alpha
Grafbase:
Added knownarray suffix arr, which returns a boolean: true if arr is
the name of a known array (arr is numeric and a positive integer and
arr[1] through arr[arr] are known). Added isdashpat suffix pat,
which applies knownarray to pat.start, pat.rep and pat.finish.
Added defaultdashes, defaultsymbols, and defaultcolors, which
contains the code to define dashtype0, etc., pointtype0, etc., and
colortype0, etc.
Added setdatadashes, setdatasymbols, and setdatacolors to allow the
user to change the definitions of the dashtype, pointtype, and
colortype arrays.
Added getdashpat, getsymbol, and getcolor which perform the modding
operation that used to be done in TeX for reverting (for example) to
pointtype0 after the ninth curve is drawn by \plotdata.
Changed thepolkadot (in MF) so it is shaded. But we should make it
cover other contents of a region, and we need to subtract black ones
before we add gray ones. Done.
Added regularpolygon (expr n) (suffix P) (text eqns), where n
is the number of sides, P is the name of the array of vertices, and
eqns is a pair of equations specifying either the center, P0, and one
vertex, or two vertices. Vertices are numbered anticlockwise (otherwise
two points are not enough data).
Added variables default_tension and fcn_tension to be used as the
default in path creation commands instead of the hard coded values 1 and
1.2.
Mfpic:
Realized that the opening code of \mfpic no longer needs to know the
setting of truebbox. No longer make it an error to use it in an mfpic
environment.
Replaced the three commands \setdatadashes, \setdatacolors etc., with
a single command \reconfigureplot which takes the word `dashes',
`colors', or `symbols' for an argument. Added \defaultplot which
takes the same arguments and restores the builtin defaults.
Changed name of \partialpath to \partpath.
Added \regpolygon{n}{P}{<eqn1>}{<eqn2>} which writes
reguralpolygon (n) (P) (<eqn1>;<eqn2>;) (see above).
Moved the loading of the figure to \endmfpic. Now tlabels are added
to a box \@alltlabels which is appended to the figure right after it
is loaded. This helps keep most of the box loading in one place. It also
permits the possibility of adding a write-18 capability for on-the-fly
figure creation.
Added \mpobj as a synonym for \mfobj.
Added \settension to set the grafbase variable default_tension.
and \setfcntension to set the grafbase variable fcn_tension.
Docs:
Started mfpguide.tex, a beginner's tutorial.
Renamed mfpicdoc.tex to mfpicman.tex (can't remember why -- maybe
because I got it confused with mfpdoc.sty).
REVISION 0.68 alpha
Grafbase:
Improved fcncurve: fcncontrol does `the right thing' when two
successive points have the same x-coordinate. This gives the curve a
decent ending if, instead of extending the sequence by symmetry (in
order to calculate the controls for the endpoints) we extend by making
the additional points equal to the endpoints. Looks _so_ much better!
That was surprising given that all I tried to do was avoid dividing by
0!
Modified plotnodes as well as plotsymbol so that both store the
relevant pairs in an array and call dosymbols, which draws the symbol
at each coordinate in the array. And dosymbols call another command,
addsymbols, one or two times (once to clear).
Added boolean: clearsymbols. When true, those symbols place by
plotsymbol or plotnodes which are `clearable' (open paths that satisfy
their first point equals their last) are first closed and filled with
background color in MP (cleared in MF) before being drawn.
Added complex function sgn Z : returns 0 if Z is (0,0) otherwise
unitvector Z.
Modified shadepic. The main point to make sure we don't divide by 0.
But also, set dimensions for the picture by doing the lowest resolution
first (thus ensuring both dimensions are at least 2 _pixels_).
Modified the arrowhead routine so that when the head is filled, the
extra line that closes the head is also drawn.
Modified arcpps so that angles less than 45 are drawn as a single
segment without passing through a midpoint.
Modified pathcenter c so it can find the center when c is only an
arc.
Added barycenter expr t to average the points of the the path t.
Added makesector expr p, where p is an arc (or any path). Connects
pathcenter p to its endpoints. Could be a little more accurate if we
limited it to arcpps and used arccenter.
Added boolean: overlaylabels. When true, labels are added to
current_labels, which is then overlayed at endmfpic (new behavior),
when false, labels are added immediately to active_plane.
Changed these so they produce a path (line segment); used to be they
returned the endpoint. (You can get the point by invoking
"point 1 of altitude n of Q".)
altitude n of Q the altitude from Q[n] to the opposite side
(produced if necessary).
median n of Q the median from Q[n] to the opposite side
anglebisector n of Q the angle bisector from Q[n] to the opposite
side
Added
tbezier (expr tens, cyclic) (text lst)
which makes the simple cubic bezier (connects the points in the list
with ..tension tens.. ), as well as its non-tense counterpart bezier.
Also added
mkbezier (expr tens, cyclic) (suffix pts)
which is called by the above after loading the text list in the
the array pts.
For quadratic Be'ziers we have qbezier, and mkqbezier.
Removed fcn_tension, using instead 1.2*default_tension. This is for
consistency, all curves responding to the same default
Added verbatimtex definition to grafbase.mf. It just gobbles
everything to the next semicolon.
Redid openqbs and closedqbs so they behave like most other
path-making commands: they call textpairs and then some common code,
mkqbs with the name of an array. Also redid mkclosedcbs so it
utilizes mkopencbs.
Mfpic:
Changed the axis commands so they explicitly call \arrow. The purpose
was to ensure that the arrowhead is drawn _after_ the shaft.
Significant only for colored heads. This turns out to make axis@# in
grafbase unnecessary \arrow[l##1]\@figmac{axisline.##2} is all that is
required.
Added \makesector, a \@closmac prefix that can make a sector out of
a following arc. Useful when the arc is given without a known center
([t] or [s]).
Added \let\@nl=\@activectrlM to \@mfwrite so that \@nl can
be used for line breaks when catcodes of EOL are already fixed (e.g., in
macro definitions)
Added check to \opengraphsfile that no previous file is still open.
Added \clearsymbols \noclearsymbols to interface with the grafbase
clearsymbols boolean. Added clearsymbols LaTeX option
Added \newdef\pinumber{3.14159}.
Added new option: overlaylabels and commands \overlaylabels and
\nooverlaylabels. Similar in implementation to truebbox: a TeX
boolean is used only to communicate the setting to \opengraphsfile
before a file is open. Otherwise a MetaPost boolean (above) is switched
on or off.
Moved \@processdatafile outside \@mfpic@graf@macs. Also moved
\skipBlanksandComments and definition of \mfp@data since they are
used by \@processdatafile. Also moved \skipcoomments because it
seemed it should go along with \skipBlanksandComments. Then I rewrote
the latter to actually call \skipcomments, so now it _has_ to go where
it goes.
Renamed \mfp@empty to \@empty.
Added \pairarray{<name>}{<list-of-pairs>} and
\numericarray{<name>}{<list-of-numbers>}. They define, respectively, an
array of pairs and an array of numbers. They can be used outside an mfpic
environments (unlike \patharr), and have the usual scoping properties.
Added \mfbezier[<tens>]{<list>} to interface with grafbase's new
bezier command. Also \closedmfbezier.
And the equivalent of (a sequence of) LaTeX \qbezier: \qbeziers and
\closedqbeziers.
Removed \setfcntension because grafbase's fcn_tension was removed.
Adjusted docs.
Renamed \if@mfp@mpost to \ifmfpmpost so power users can use it to
write code dependent on the figure processor. The commands to change it
are still private: \mfp@mposttrue/false .
Added the test for file being open to \setmfvariable. Saves a lot of
tokens. It seems we never used it without \@if@mfp@fileisopen. Require
moving it considerably earlier.
Added \mfp@let as abbreviation for \mfp@local\let. Likewise
\mfp@def.
Renamed \mfp@addto to \mfpaddto for power users (i.e., me) and added
\mfpmultiply (same syntax and similar effect).
Renamed \@if@mfp@fileisopen to \@ifmfpfileisopen (it was just too
many @'s !)
Changed \everytlabel so it tests for metapost rather than mplabels.
This allows it to be used anywhere without worrying whether \nomplabels
might have cancelled its effect.
Renamed \massage@data to \parse@data.
Make sure every write of verbatimtex ... etex ends with a semicolon so
it can be used by grafbase.mf (see above).
Docs:
First version of mfpguide.tex finished. Writing it exposed a number of
bugs that got by the usual suite of tests. It is the first documentation
that actually shows the code and its result together.
Second version of mfpguide.tex, adds appendices. Planning to ship a
PDF version.
REVISION 0.69 alpha and 0.69a
Mfpic:
Rewrote \do@ptparam so its first parameter is the command token (e.g.,
\do@ptparam\@draw{} instead of the old \do@ptparam{@draw}{}). Added a
command \simple@opt to process simple optional arguments (those that
don't need further parsing), it calls a second command to read the
option, substitute the default if empty, and then call the command with
the given or supplied option as a normal (brace enclosed) argument. The
idea is to make all empty optional arguments the same as none at all.
Added a command \null@opt which is essentially \do@ptparam with a null
second argument. It turns out that now all commands can be handled by
the last two: \do@ptparam and \alt@ptparam are not used anywhere
anymore, although the bare "\mfp@ifnextchar[" does appear once or twice.
Make \gridlines honor the settings of \axismargin (see grafbase
section below).
Added \hgridlines to draw only the horizontal and \vgridlines to
draw only the vertical.
Added \gridarcs and \gridrays to draw only the arcs or rays of a
polar grid.
Added \setmfboolean for \setmfvariable{boolean}.
Added \setmfnumeric for \setmfvariable{numeric}.
Grafbase:
Rewrote gridlines to honor the axis margins (laxis, baxis, raxis,
and taxis).
Added hgridlines (expr ysp) and vgridlines (expr xsp)
Corrected polargrid. How did it ever last this long without a bug
report? The computation of rmin was wrong, and it seems a semicolon
was missing! Added gridarcs (expr rstep) to draw only the arcs, and
gridrays (tstep) for only the rays. Complemented plrpatch with
patcharcs and patchrays for this purpose.
Corrected polargrid again! It seems the calculation of max and min
angles didn't take into account that angle (0,0) was undefined but
could occur in the code.
Redid resizedrawpen to save drawpen and currentpen (not just
penwd).
Removed mindiam and substituted minpenwd in the MP version (they
were equal anyway).
Added \InputIfFileExists{mfpic.cfg} in the LaTeX section just before
\ProcessOptions. Added code to detect and input mfppatch.tex if it
exists.
Docs:
Added a file plotting example to pictures.tex and lapictures.tex.
Added some of the new commands to Objects.tex . Converted Objects.tex
to use built-in \ifmfpmpost instead of the ad hoc \ifmetapost
defined in TeXMPobj.tex and LTXMPobj.tex.
Renamed mfpicman.tex to mfpman.tex.
Distribution:
Packed up for distribution in mfpic69b.zip:
mfpic.dtx
grafbase.dtx
mfpic.ins
README.txt
install.txt
changes.txt
mfpman.pdf
mfpguide.pdf
examlpes\pictures.tex
examlpes\lapictures.tex
examlpes\forfun.tex
examlpes\data.dat
scr\mfpman.tex
scr\mfpguide.tex
scr\refcard.tex
scr\mfpdoc.sty
And placed on web site.
REVISION 0.69c alpha
Grafbase:
Redid gendashed so that it balances speed versus memory: If there are
n repeated patterns, add sqrt(_n) of them to the picture _v, then
DoClip (_v); coloraddto (drawcolor) (active_plane, _v); <repeat>. Doing
that for each pattern was too slow, doing it only once wasted memory.
Put on web site.
REVISION 0.69d
Grafbase:
Modified barchart so that the data can be pairs. Interpret (a,b)
as an interval and creates bars that begin at a and end at b (Gantt
diagrams).
Added predirection@# (expr p) and postdirection@# (expr p) which
give correct results *whenever* the path p is nontrivial. Based on
the easily prove fact (which I only recently discovered) that for a
nontrivial single knot with keypoints A, B, C and D, the direction at A
is towards the first one of B, C or D that is not equal to A. The
predirection[j] returns (0,0) if the path is trivial. If the path is
trivial upto time j, it returns postdirection[j]. postdirection[j]
is analogous.
Changed headpath to use predirection[length p](p) instead of
point length p of p - precontrol length p of p.
Mfpic:
Added \gantt (= \barchart)
Distribution:
Placed on web site, announced on c.t.t.
REVISION 0.69e
Grafbase:
Somehow the last version of grafbase included failed to include a
long-ago change to colorsafefill in which non-black fills first
subtract the interior under MF. Corrected that.
Experimented with a O(log n) loop for filledwith. Made no significant
difference in speed in tests. Must be the extra overhead. Keeping old
O(n) method.
Experimented with using "..tension atleast tens.." in mksmooth and
sclosed. All other tension using operations either call these or
require different treatment. The one case in the test suite where a
visible difference occured, it looked worse. Returned to old method.
Proofed grafbase.dvi, the documentation of grafbase macros.
Docs:
Proofed mfpguide.
REVISION 0.69f
Mfpic:
Made [cc] the default for \tlabelrect, etc. Added command
\tlpathjustify to change the default.
Added code to input local additions, defaults, etc., in mfpic.usr, if
it exists.
Changed \let\par\relax to \let\par\@empty at the beginning of
\@mfpic. It isn't really necessary to use \relax, we just want
to disable blank lines, we don't necessarily want to skip over them in
\mfp@ifnextchar. In fact, for catching errors, it is better if a blank
line stops \mfp@ifnextchar.
Grafbase:
New definition of image (writing on active_plane) prevents use of
plain.mp macros (draw and undraw, for example) inside it. Revert
to plain.mp version.
Change patcharcs and patchrays so they draw on a suffix parameter
This avoids the use of image and saves memory since drawing on a
picture takes less memory (in some circumstances) than creating a
picture and then assigning it. Actually, the least memory would be to
clip each line as created and add that directly to active_plane.
Re-examined use (or lack of use) of mono(). Added a few.
REVISION 0.69g
Packed it up in mfpic69g.zip and put it on my web site.
Docs:
Added documentation that several arrays become defined after a
\piechart or \barchart command.
Added documentation on \mfpicversion. Added a couple of overlooked
\index entries and a couple of commands omitted from the "by type"
list.
Grafbase:
Modified piechart and barchart so that the documentation about
arrays was correct What was missing: pieangle and piedirection
(without numeric suffixes) were not declared, nor given the correct
value.
Modified code of textrectx so that documentation of \tlabelrect was
accurate: negative values of the optional argument should now produce
indented arcs and reversed path. All that needed doing was reversing the
order of the path connections for negative radii.
Fine tune the calculation of gray level for the MP version of shade so
that the result more closely matches the MF version on modern printers
(600+ DPI). Formula is now gray = 1 - (.88*shadewd/sp)**2, which gives
a lighter gray than before. We therefore rewrite the MF code to permit
shadewd to be as high as sp/.88 before resorting to filling. The
number .88 was empirically arrived at (i.e. I determined what number
made most of the MP and MF shaded figures in Objects.tex look the most
similar on two different printers; then I averaged the two values).
Change pi and deg to internals (along with radians).
Make plrpatch do what it used to do: draw in drawcolor. Also change
polarpatch back to calling plrpatch.
REVISION 0.7 beta, 14 Nov 2003
Packed up and put on web page and CTAN.
REVISION 0.7a beta, 16 Apr 2004
Change one semicolon (;) in a string written by \opengraphsfile to a
colon (:) to work around a bug in the perl scripts mptopdf and/or
texexec.
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Stuff To Do
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Pie-in-the-sky stuff
A command to obtain the boundary of a region defined by F(x,y), where
F is a boolean valued function. Easy if the region is convex.
A command to draw a path paralleling another path. Will need
predirection and postdirection and some notion of what to do when
they differ. Inside corners/cusps should be easy,
/\ /\
/ \ --> / \
/ \ / /\ \
outside corners might need some limit on "mitering":
__ /\
/ \ / \
/\ --> / /\ \ or / /\ \ or a rounded (circular?) connection.
A command to render a path with a "photon"?
Try 'write18' on-the-fly creation of figures? Most straightforward would
be to mimic \opengraphsfile with each \mfpic. That would require
rethinking those commands that write to the graph file _outside_ an
mfpic figure. Maybe redo \mfsrc so it added to some macro or token list,
and write _that_ after the file is opened.
Or maybe: \opengraphsfile at beginning of document, then
\closegraphsfile just before processing the figure, then \opengraphsfile
again right afterwards. Then only commands we insert occur when a file
is closed.
Truebbox for MF? Might be done if every drawing command kept track of
bounding boxes (commands that fill, hatch, etc. already get this info
with gbbox). Would just need to add it to plotsymbol (for pointd and
plotnodes) and to the drawing commands (drawn, gendashed, etc.). Might
want to skip the lower-level things like safedraw, safefill, etc. (or
maybe add it _only_ there). Don't want to do it for anything that
doesn't add to active_plane. But some things only add pictures to
active_plane and by then it's impossible to determine the size. Once a
bounding box is known, endmfpic can adjust tfm dimensions. and shift the
picture before shipout.
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