[Tioga-news] Tioga-1.1.2 release -- better control over page layout and fonts

[Bill Paxton]

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