[Tioga-news] Version 1.2.0 is available !

[Vincent Fourmond]

  Hello dear Tioga users !

  We are happy to announce the 1.2.0 release of Tioga. This version has
dealt with one of the most annoying 'problem' with previous versions of
Tioga: it is now possible to set the exact size of the PDF file
produced, with the page_setup function. You can then simply include
directly the PDF file produced into LaTeX documents (or even others).

  During the process, we added a whole bunch of debugging functions
(look for /(enter|exit)_(show_plot|subplot|subfigure)/), and a
enter_page and an exit_page hook which you can use to set the output
size; quoting Bill's explanation on the subject:

My initialize routine adds a call on def_enter_page_function

    t.def_enter_page_function { enter_page }

I define enter_page as

    def enter_page
        t.page_setup(11*72/2,8.5*72/2) # takes size in postscript points
        t.set_frame_sides(0.15,0.85,0.85,0.15)
    end

Then, no need to modify your existing graphs to take profit of the new
'real-size' scheme !

  There are also a whole bunch of new methods to Dvector and Function
(convolution, computation of distance, integration, stripping of NaN
values...).

  This release also sees the creation of a Tioga/Utils module, where
some useful functions have been written (TeX quoting of strings,
dimension conversion).

  By the way, this time I didn't mess up with the architecture system,
so there shouldn't be need for a bug-fix release in a few hours ;-)...

  Hope you'll enjoy using the new version as much as we enjoyed writing,
testing and debugging it !

  Cheers

	Vincent Fourmond