
                             Grace list of changes
                                       

5.0.2



  New functionality

 *  [ES] graphs and sets are allocated dynamically; -maxgraph, -maxsets and
         -graphsets removed
 *  [ES] XY chart is back
 *  [ES] XYZ set type is back
 !  [ES] new chart set presentations: stacked line and scatter
 !  [ES] new options for charts (different bar border/fill colors and
         patterns etc)
 !  [ES] inter-bar gap for bar charts is adjustable (rep. #198)
 !  [ES] new set type: BarDY (bar charts with error bars)
 *  [ES] precision can be used for XYZ sets (rep. #519)
 *  [ES] new set auto-coloring is back
 *  [ES] added 16 new patterns
 *  [ES] added a few more line styles (rep. #305)
 !  [ES] legends can be displayed in reverse order (rep. #205)
 *  [ES] legends are drawn by default
 *  [ES] enhanced backward compatibility with Xmgr
 *  [ES] in free mode, auto-re-scale all the plot objects (imitating Xmgr)
         (rep. #537)
 !  [ES] color map stuff (rep. #512)
 !  [AM] auto-scaling with range restrictions
 *  [LM] added internals for RT (real time) input monitoring
 !  [LM] grace_np library now uses anonymous instead of named pipes
 !  [ES] write format is used for all dataset types
 !  [ES] FP line widths (rep. #483)
 !  [ES] locale, if available and set, is used for numeric labels
 *  [ES] in case of crash, Grace tries to save the project anyway
 !  [ES] added an option to fill (or not to) the page background
 *  [ES] Grace honors $GRACE_PRINT_CMD environment variable (rep. #522)
 *  [ES] PS and PDF drivers optimized for speed and file size
 *  [ES] added color/gray-scale and bbox:tight/page options to the EPS driver
 *  [ES] added adjustable printer page offsets to the PS driver
 *  [ES] warning issued on truncated printout (if display and hard-copy
         device aspect ratio don't coincide, for example)

  Interface

 !  [ES] menu shuffles
 !  [ES] new graph selectors - with many operations available from the popup
         menu (right mouse button)
 !  [ES] new set selectors - with many operations available from the popup
         menu (right mouse button). Set selectors in the Data/* popups are
         of the old style yet
 *  [ES] pattern selectors have pattern bitmaps displayed
 *  [ES] line style selectors have dash bitmaps displayed
 *  [ES] graph number for ops is automatically graph that has focus
         (rep. #104)
 !  [ES] (approximate) number of tick divisions for auto-ticking is set in
         "Axis properties" now instead of "Autoscale"
 !  [ES] a simplistic (by now) fonttool added
 *  [ES] removed all set pick operations
 !  [ES] "Set appearance/Edit/*" now act on selected sets only
 *  [HS] it's possible to refer to the index of blockdata as column 0
         via command line (rep. #464)
 *  [ES] removed -xy, -xydy etc command line flags; use -(set)type instead
 *  [ES] -source stdin removed
 !  [ES] "-" and "stdin/stdout" can be used anywhere (rep. #486)
 *  [ES] Block data window reworked
 !  [ES] canvas events redone
 *  [ES] immediate feedback for drawing object reposition/editing is
         back (rep. #532)
 !  [ES] Activate/Edit/Create/Reactivate Set menu confusion eliminated
         (rep. #136)
 *  [ES] print popup fixes
 !  [ES] in the X11 driver, put dots every 0.1 viewport (visible only
         if the page bg is not filled)
 !  [ES] <Ctrl+E> from text inputs fires up font tool
 *  [ES] xwindow title has "Grace: " prefix prepended and, if project is
         modified, "(modified)" suffix
 !  [ES] removed "Clear all" and added "New" instead
 !  [ES] removed "Verify Pick sets operations" option, added "Don't
         ask questions" (same as -noask)
 !  [LM] added -dpipe command line switch for monitoring an already open
         file descriptor
 *  [ES] removed -symcolorbug command line option
 *  [ES] removed -dc/-nodc, -redraw/-noredraw, -GXxor/-GXinvert command
         line options
 *  [ES] max error count upon reading in reduced from 50 to 5

  Documentation/Info

 *  [ES] old HTML docs removed; a draft version of User's Guide added
 *  [EV] Tutorials prepared. It's a recommended reading not only for newbies,
         especially taking into account the rudimentary state of the User's
         Guide
 *  [AM] -version additions

  Parser

 *  [ES] device commands (rep. #490)
 !  [ES] VXMAX and VYMAX - max viewport values of the current device
 !  [ES] TRUE/FALSE and ON/OFF are interchangeable
 !  [ES] NEW - start new project from scratch using default template;
         NEW FROM "filename" - start new project from scratch using filename
         template
 !  [ES] MAP COLOR color_id TO (R, G, B), "colorname"
         (0 <= R, G, B < 256)
 !  [ES] S$ - currently processed (in parser) SETNUM
 !  [ES] S_ - recently assigned SETNUM (e.g., after a data have been read in)
 !  [ES] SETNUM.ID - id of the set (i.e., S5.ID is 5)
 !  [ES] G$, G_ and GRAPHNO.ID - same as above, but for graphs

  Defaults

 *  [ES] toolbar X resources
 !  [ES] use IsoLatin1 encoding if Default.enc is not found
 *  [ES] gracerc magic path
 !  [ES] gracerc re-read upon SIGHUP
 *  [ES] templates (rep. #520)

  Portability

 *  [LM] grace_np library now compiles and works correctly on OS/2 and Win32
         (in addition to all Unices, of course). There is an unresolved
         problem with VMS, though
 *  [ES] added configuration for use of lcc as compiler
 *  [JH] VMS updates
 *  [AM] OS/2 updates
 *  [ES] grconvert works on Win32
 *  [ES] Win32 port should compile out of the box

  Bug fixes

 *  [ES] configure issued wrong messages
 *  [ES] drawing objects might not be drawn sometimes
 *  [ES] fixed patterns #7, #14 and #15
 *  [ES] fixed rounding errors in clipping routines (in particular, rep. #476
         and #504)
 *  [EV] a feature extraction bug fixed
 *  [ES] view/world coords in string edit (rep. #469)
 *  [LM] input data line length restriction removed (rep. #260, #357,
         #443)
 *  [ES] npipe "buffer overflow" fixed
 *  [ES] npipe load bug fixed
 *  [LM] linear regression on a two-point set was performed wrongly
 *  [ES] spreadsheet fixes and clean-ups (rep. #203, #259, #409)
 *  [ES] auto-scale fixes (rep. #510)
 *  [LM] configure fixes
 *  [LM] updated several explanation strings on example files with the new
         GUI layout
 *  [LM] the correct stack depth was displayed only after cycling
 *  [ES] regions and graph fixed points not drawn in hardcopy output anymore
 *  [ES] if no set has a legend string defined, the empty legend box is not
         drawn (even when legends are enabled)
 *  [ES] Disk/Pipe selector was broken (rep. #454)
 *  [ES] Set appearance/Data/Load comments didn't update GUI settings
         for the currently selected set (rep. #474)
 *  [ES] ignore non-printable characters in formulae (rep. #241)
 *  [ES] working dir not initialized (rep. #470)
 *  [ES] `make tests' failed if ran before `make install' (rep. #491)
 *  [ES] incorrect postscript output of bar charts fixed (rep. #341, #410)
 *  [ES] fixed crash if applying axis settings to all graphs (rep. #503)
 *  [ES] warning popup on exit sometimes appeared even after no changes
         have been made (rep. #274)
 *  [ES] auto-scale didn't work if specified from the command line together
         with some other arguments (rep. #385, #441)
 *  [ES] File/Write/Sets didn't work for multiple set selection (rep. #394)
 *  [ES] strange font size decrement (rep. #242)
 *  [ES] crashes on SGI when accents are used in the legends (rep. #268)
 *  [ES] Strings & Things : Default size is zero on HP (rep. #288)
 *  [ES] sometimes in plots with multiple graphs, one couldn't get the x axis
         tick marks or labels to be displayed on any of the graphs except for
         graph 0 (rep. #339)
 *  [LM] in applications linked against grace_np, a call to system() or
         like functions would abort execution (rep. #382)
 *  [ES] Core dump in SetSelectedSet if optimized (rep. #366)
 *  [ES] misc other bug fixes

  Misc

 *  [ES] memory consumption reduced (typically, 0.5 MB less than that
         of 5.0.1 and about same as of Xmgr-4.1.2)
 *  [ES] removed "Coalesce sets" (will be back in 5.0.3)
 *  [ES] no input date/time formats (a smart input data filter is planned
         for 5.0.3). Please use Julian dates for a time being


5.0.1



  New functionality

 !  [ES] added FORMAT_SCIENTIFIC, FORMAT_ENGINEERING
 !  [ES] polar plots (a work in progress - far from being completed, but
         definitely better than nothing :))
 !  [ES] added tunable offsets for tick labels (in particular, rep. #467)
 !  [ES] added option of placing axis ticks at rounded positions (rep. #124)
 *  [HS2] implemented axis label placement op (normal/opposite side)
          (rep. #463)
 *  [HS2] changed tick and axis label offsets from (x,y) to
          (parallel/perpendicular)
 *  [HS2] introduced tick label placement auto/spec (similar to axis label)
 !  [ES] fill rules for sets: winding/even-odd; not honored by raster formats
 !  [ES] smart colormap management: -install/-noinstall flags force a given
         behavior; default is to switch to the private colormap automatically
         as needed
 !  [ES] -rvideo now acts on all devices; XMgrace.reverseVideo removed from
         the list of X resources
 !  [ES] selecting devices by names instead of numbers; "-device" command
         line argument renamed to "-hdevice"; GR_HDEV not used anymore
 !  [ES] zero axes are back. Now, both "primary" and alternative axes can be
         "zero" ones
 !  [ES] PDF device options added: binary/ASCII output; misc fixes
 !  [ES] GIF device options added: transparent and interlaced output
 !  [ES] PS device options added: grayscale/color; Level2 toggle is back (in
         fact, nobody of developers has a Level 1 printer to really check it)
 *  [ES] fixed bug when text strings might be typed wrong sometimes in the PS
         output
 *  [ES] all drivers slightly rewritten
 !  [ES] added PNM (PBM/PGM/PPM) device (both ASCII and "rawbits" outputs)
 !  [ES] Courier font family added
 *  [ES] added \f, \h, \v, \z, \m, \M and \d string controls. Load typeset.agr
         in the "examples" dir to get an idea
 !  [ES] in the batch language, in any statement with FONT NUMBER, the
         font selection can be done by fontname instead of the number:
         FONT "fontname"
 !  [ES] Grace can now use any number of user-defined fonts, both in addition
         and as a replacement for bundled ones (rep. #26)

  Documentation/Info

 *  [HS] added a text (http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/y2k.html)
         on the Year 2000 problem (rep. #342)
 *  [HS2] new extended FAQ written
 *  [AM] version string includes GUI toolkit (Motif/Lesstif/None)
 *  [AM] help screen updated
 *  [ES] font docs (doc/fonts.html) updated


  Portability

 *  [ES] configure should now be smarter about finding Motif (rep. #416)
 *  [ES] added configuration file for Interix (aka OpenNT) (rep. #437)
 *  [ES] SunOS4 build fixes
 *  [AM] OS/2 updates

  Bug fixes

 *  [AM] "Read/Block data" crash fixed (rep. #445)
 *  [ES] Zooming now zooms exactly to the window specified by mouse (rep. #5)
 *  [ES] "AutoT" doesn't alter graph min/max values (rep. #165)
 *  [ES] killing sets in polar plots with parameters preserved caused crash
         (rep. #125)
 *  [HS2] ellipses might be sometimes drawn incorrectly in X11
 *  [ES] a memory leak in "Edit String" fixed
 *  [HS] leap year function corrected
 *  [ES] XYString sets were not saved (rep. #452)
 *  [ES] Disk/Pipe selector was broken (rep. #455)
 *  [AM] fixed broken axis scaling when set min/max was +/- Inf
 *  [EV] stack manipulation fixed (#417)
 *  [AM] "-version" now outputs to stdout instead of stderr
 *  [ES] misc small fixes

5.0.0 (since Xmgr-4.1.2):



  New functionality

 *  [ES] T1 fonts are used for all devices using the T1lib library of Rainer
         Menzner. There should be no discrepancies anymore between characters
         displayed and printed (rep. #16)
 *  [ES] routines of drawing layer rewritten from the scratch; Grace is now
         almost WYSIWYG, except patterns (rep. #184)
 *  [EV] generic I/O filtering implemented (including rep. #240); see docs
         for details
 !  [ES] reciprocal axis scale implemented (rep. #33)
 *  [EV] system-wide gracerc ($GRACE_HOME/gracerc) will be read at startup
         time, if exists
 !  [ES] overlined strings are possible (\o \O) (rep. #176). Doesn't work with
         device fonts yet
 !  [MM] extensions to regions including horizontal-inside, horizontal-outside,
         vertical-inside and vertical-outside
 !  [MM] Grace will use the FFTW library for Fourier transform if present on
         the system; see README.FFTW
 *  [MM] negative indices in "Drop points" allowed (counting from the end of
         a set)
 *  [EV] added a new feature to be extracted - the integral of each set
 !  [ES] "unit" and "const" added to the possible proctype's for modules.
         DEG (below) is an example what "unit" can be used for
 !  [ES] DEG and RAD are now meaningful. E.g., expressions like sin(90 deg)
         and sin(pi/2 rad) both are legitimate (and equivalent!) ("rad" can be
         omitted - it's there just for the sake of completeness)
 *  [ES] metafile driver (not in final state)
 *  [ES] PDF driver using the PDFlib of Thomas Merz; see README.PDF
 *  [ES] GIF/GD driver using the GD library of Thomas Boutell (rep. #14); see
         README.GIF
 *  [ES] logarithmic scales can have any base (rep. #370)
 *  [ES] patterns and colors can be used simultaneously (rep. #291)
 *  [ES] power tick label format changed to work in scientific format
         (rep. #361)
 *  [ES] \B in composite strings will reset the font to the string's initial
         font (rep. #388)
 *  [ES] PS/EPS driver rewritten from the scratch
 *  [ES] X11 driver heavily rewritten

  Interface

 !  [ES] removed "Plot/World scaling" popup
 !  [ES] re-designed axis props GUI popup (in particular, rep. #63, #313)
 *  [EV] point ops popup fixes
 !  [ES] graph appearance props GUI popup
 !  [ES] removed "Viewport", "Frame", "Titles" and "Legends"  popups.
 !  [ES] removed "Error bars" and "Edit legends"  popups.
 !  [ES] re-designed set appearance props GUI popup (rep. #311, #369 should be
         fixed)
 *  [EV] added expression evaluation to text input fields in all widgets
 *  [EV] error window changed - only 1 window, not 1 window per error
 !  [EV] regression fits can be applied to specified interval and results are
         printed out in readable form
 *  [EV] scrolled windows for explicitly requested expressions
 *  [EV] canvas hotkeys added
 !  [ES] re-designed print setup GUI popup (problems in rep. #372, #412
         should be fixed)
 *  [ES] changing page size is possible for any device separately; the units
         can be "pix"els, "cm" or "in" (rep. #108, #211, #216, #405)

  Project files

 *  [EV] background color saved
 *  [MM] all regions, whether active or not, are saved to the file, so
         temporarily inactive regions don't get lost
 *  [ES] page size is saved (rep. #312)

  Parser

 *  [ES] cleaned grammar parser; instead of 350 shift/reduce and 231
         reduce/reduce conflicts - > 61 & 0 respectively
 *  [ES] MAX() and MIN() renamed to MAXOF() and MINOF()
 !  [ES] removed DX, DY, IMAGE
 !  [ES] removed GRAPHNO *BAR SIZE NUMBER
 !  [ES] removed SETNUM = SETNUM etc
 !  [ES] removed CMAP, STATUS, STATUSBAR, TOOLBAR, LOCATORBAR, LOCATOR


  Defaults

 !  [ES] default page layout changed from free to fixed
 *  [ES] \+ increases font size sqrt(sqrt(2)) times; \- respectively,
         decreases. Sub/superscripts are 1/sqrt(2) of the preceeding font size

  Portability

 *  [AM] implemented dynamic modules for OS/2
 *  [EV] popen() for VMS
 *  [JH/RN] VMS fixes
 *  [AM] OS/2 updates

  Misc

 !  [ES] removed (broke) xwd image loading
 !  [ES] removed all app-defaults not specific to GUI
 !  [ES] \x and \b control sequences removed

  Bug fixes

 *  [ES] "-mono" command line flag now works
 *  [EV] "-wd" command line flag fixed
 *  [EV] trying to create a new set preceded with soft kill of all sets
         caused crash (rep. #367)
 *  [MM] FFT fixes
 *  [MM] when regions were read in from a saved file, they ended up linked
         to all graphs
 *  [MM] in saved projects, REGNUM TRUE was used instead of REGNUM ON
 *  [EV] several sets can be linked to the same file as in xny data (rep. #269)
 *  [ES] crash on mono X servers fixed (rep. #285)
 *  [ES] canvas refresh (rep. #217, #271 #317, #333, #375)
 *  [ES] axis labels were not displayed if `display tick marks' wasn't
         selected (rep. #3)
 *  [ES] coordinates of legend frame now corresponds to the left upper corner
         of the frame (rep. #31)
 *  [ES] ticklabel format was reset by autoscale (rep. #119, #144)
 *  [ES] bounding box of EPS was calculated only approximately (rep. #123,
         #145)
 *  [ES] legend frame didn't account for sub/superscripts (rep. #189)
 *  [ES] extraneous logarithmic tick marks were drawn in some cases (rep. #193)
 *  [ES] accentuated titles weren't centered correctly (rep. #195)
 *  [ES] switch to log scale with an axis containing zero might cause
         error messages infinitely looped (rep. #210)
 *  [ES] filling of legend frame didn't work unless one turned the frame on
         (rep. #215)
 *  [ES] the axes tick marks were behind set curves (rep. #224)
 *  [ES] popup positioning left up to WM for all windows (rep. #273)
 *  [ES] if graph contained too many ticks, autoscale was applied instead
         of tick position recalculation (rep. #275)
 *  [EV] in "Point ops", 'Delete' ignored set number (rep. #293)
 *  [ES] once activated, legends fill frame couldn't be switched off
         from within GUI (rep. #326)
 *  [CM] adding legends to plots with number of data sets exceeding the
         default maximum caused a crash (rep. #344)
 *  [ES] arranging or rearranging graphs by means of the "arrange" dialog reset
         previously set tick properties to defaults (rep. #356)
 *  [ES] user tick labels w/subscripts did not show up in PS output (rep. #383)
 *  [ES] FFT command didn't work correctly in parser (rep. #398)
 *  [HS] command line parsing was wrong in several places (rep. #400)
 *  [ES] misc. small fixes (including rep. #289, #406, #287)


 _Legend:_

    [EV]  - Ed Vigmond <vigmonde@IGB.UMontreal.CA>
    [RN]  - Rolf Niepraschk <niepraschk@ChbRB.berlin.ptb.de>
    [HS]  - Henrik Seidel <seidel@mpimg-berlin-dahlem.mpg.de>
    [JH]  - John Hasstedt <John.Hasstedt@sunysb.edu>
    [AM]  - Alexander Mai <st002279@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de>
    [CM]  - Charles Myers <myers@oicinc.com>
    [MM]  - Marcus H. Mendenhall <marcus.h.mendenhall@vanderbilt.edu>
    [HS2] - Heiko R. Selber <selber@fhi-berlin.mpg.de>
    [LM]  - Luc Maisonobe
    [ES]  - Evgeny Stambulchik <fnevgeny@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il>

    "!" means no documentation provided (yet)
