From paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu  Wed Jun  7 17:44:16 2006
From: paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu (Bill Paxton)
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 14:44:16 -0700
Subject: [Tioga-news] Tioga 1.1.1 -- the 1st beta release
Message-ID: <F898937A-7E01-4CC4-A02B-CE76B3C37726@kitp.ucsb.edu>

Hi,

After spending a year as an "alpha" release, I think Tioga is ready  
for a wider audience, and moving it to "beta" status is one way to  
help that happen.  There will certainly be lots more changes (and  
perhaps even a bug fix or two), but I think it no longer needs the  
"use at your own risk" label.

This release is also the first to be done using RubyForge.  Instead  
of downloading the tar file from my website, please get it from  
there: //rubyforge.org/projects/tioga/

For now, the Mac GUI is still on my website (but it will also move to  
RubyForge soon): http://theory.kitp.ucsb.edu/~paxton/Tioga-1.1.1.dmg

The main technical change in Tioga for this release is Vincent  
Fourmond's split of the Dvector-Dtable packages off from FigureMaker  
so that they live in a separate Dobject class that can be used  
independently.

Cheers,
Bill

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From paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu  Thu Jun 29 09:40:17 2006
From: paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu (Bill Paxton)
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:40:17 -0700
Subject: [Tioga-news] Tioga-1.1.2 release -- better control over page layout
	and fonts
Message-ID: <2F1AB03D-0A15-4C81-904F-564D33D8C11D@kitp.ucsb.edu>

Hello,

Well, RubyForge is working again after a several day outage with  
network problems caused by a necessary server upgrade.  So Vincent  
and I have finally been able to get the new release done.  As usual,  
the download for the basic Tioga kernel is available from RubyForge  
at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=701&release_id=5818.  There is  
a matching new release of the Mac GUI available from my website --  
here's the link to the dmg http://theory.kitp.ucsb.edu/~paxton/ 
Tioga-1.1.2.dmg.

If you follow tioga-users, you may have seen yesterday's email from  
me that had a brief sketch of what's new.  In case you missed it,  
here's the list of new features:

for top-level page layout
	set_device_pagesize(width, height) # measured in tenths of points
	set_A4_portrait, set_A4_landscape
	set_A5_portrait, set_A5_landscape
	set_B5_portrait, set_B5_landscape
	set_JB5_portrait, set_JB5_landscape
	set_USLegal_portrait, set_USLegal_landscape
	set_USLetter_portrait, set_USLetter_landscape
	set_frame_sides(left, right, top, bottom) # sizes in page coords [0..1]

for TeX preview page and figure size
	tex_preview_paper_width
	tex_preview_paper_height
	tex_preview_hoffset
	tex_preview_voffset
	tex_preview_figure_width
	tex_preview_figure_height

for TeX preview font selection
         tex_preview_fontsize
         tex_preview_fontfamily
         tex_preview_fontseries
         tex_preview_fontshape

The on-line documentation has been updated to include these things if  
you'd like more details.
http://theory.kitp.ucsb.edu/~paxton/tioga_doc/index.html

I hope this new release will give the needed control to do  
publication quality figures -- but please let us know how it goes.

Cheers,
Bill


From paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu  Fri Jun 30 23:06:01 2006
From: paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu (Bill Paxton)
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 20:06:01 -0700
Subject: [Tioga-news] Tioga documentation updated for page layout and font
	selection
Message-ID: <93E94660-E2AF-4E78-B8EF-9A4740C15F18@kitp.ucsb.edu>

Hi,

I've edited the documentation to reflect the recent changes for page  
layout and font selection.
The changes are mainly in the following two sections.

http://theory.kitp.ucsb.edu/~paxton/tioga_doc/classes/Tioga/ 
Page_Frame_Bounds.html

http://theory.kitp.ucsb.edu/~paxton/tioga_doc/classes/Tioga/ 
TeX_Text.html

Please let me know where things are still in need of clarification.

Cheers,
Bill