[Tioga-users] Tioga 1.7 release

[Vincent Fourmond]

  Hello dear Tioga users !

  I'm glad to announce the 1.7 release of Tioga, the first in quite a
long while. While this may not have shown on this list, a lot has been
going on in Tioga's development over the past six month, as Taro Sato is
preparing a Python port of Tioga, and we had to adapt the code so it
would be easier.

  But that wasn't the only change. Among other things, let's name a few:

  * it is now possible to know the exact size of TeX text, using
get_text_size. I suggest you have a look at the documentation, and at
the text_size examples in samples/figures/figures.rb. This came somehow
as a shock, as we never thought it would be possible.

  * legend information without lines, just call save_legend_info with
'line_type' => 'None' in addition to the marker information. You can
also give a 'legend' argument to show_marker.

  * some bug fixes, which I hope will solve the various stack overflows
we've seen recently on this list (I'm not entirely sure, as I could
never reproduce them on my machine).

  * some improvements in Dvector.fancy_read (around three times faster
now), and new methods to Function.

  * the release should be Ruby 1.9-ready. Please, check it out and let
us know.

  The release is, as usual, available at

http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=701

  Enjoy !

	Vincent