repackaged (Raik, 02/09/2007)
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Smooth the biggles installation on modern machines (when using 
python setup.py build/install):

* use --prefix provided by distutils rather than explicit '/usr/local'
	to find libplot.so

* also look into /lib64 folders

* removed README.Debian

	
1.6.4 (08 Mar 2004)
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* Phil Kromer contributed the new ColoredPoints and Density components.
  See example9.py for details.

* Todd Fox contributed Makefiles for building with MS Visual C++.

* Can now specify the width/height of postscript output, by passing (e.g.)
  width="5in" or height="10in" to the functions which produce postscript
  output. Default values are in the [postscript] section of config.ini.
  The old [printer]/paper option is now [postscript]/paper.

* Added UpperLimits, LowerLimits components. These produce symbols
  with half-arrows indicating the true value is below/above the
  point.

* Added TeX codes \`,\',\^,\",\~ for character accents.

1.6.3 (16 Jul 2002)
-------------------

* Mike Romberg fixed bugs related to packaging biggles with imputil.

1.6.2 (23 May 2002)
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* Spiros Papadimitriou contributed an experimental piddle port.

* You can now specify partial ranges for plots. So "p.xrange = 2, None"
  will set the lower bound of the plot p to be 2, and the upper bound
  will be guessed from the data contained in the plot.

* Replaced "!= None" with "is not None" everywhere.

* Fixed bug with added space in scientific notation ticklabels.

1.6.1 (14 Nov 2001)
-------------------

* Martin Lamar ported the code to Windows.

* Replaced "== None" with "is None" everywhere (again thanks to Martin).
  This should fix crashes with recent versions of numpy.

1.6.0 (07 Nov 2001)
-------------------

* Clipping!

* Better performance for plots with lots of data. Parts of the code
  were vectorized, and a new integrated libplot interface was written.
  Biggles no longer uses the python-libplot module.

* Jamie Mazer contributed code for Matlab emulation, accessible by
  "import biggles.matlab".

* Added the multipage() function for multipage postscript output.
  Thanks to Olivier Andrieu for the original patch.

* Changed the default plot window size to 512x512 from 570x570.

* Bug fixes: better tick generation on huge-ranged log axes; the
  "thousand tiny lines" problem with contour plots.

1.5.0 (31 Aug 2001)
-------------------

* Completely rewrote FramedPlot. Fully backward compatible with
  the old FramedPlot, it adds a tremendous number of new features.
  CustomFramedPlot is now deprecated.

* Configuration options are now read when objects are instantiated,
  instead of during class definition. This means you can change them
  in the middle of a script, using the new configure() function.

* Added read_rows(),read_matrix() functions. They read text data files,
  returning a list of rows and a matrix, respectively. Numeric Python
  arrays are returned by default. The readcolumn() function has been
  renamed read_column().

* TeX font control sequences \it and \bf are now recognized. Spaces
  are no longer ignored during math mode.

* You can now specify single characters as plotting symbols.

* Added DataBox/PlotBox components.

* Added .align_interiors option to Table.

* Added .drop_to_zero option to Histogram.

* Added .title_style attribute to all containers.

* The container methods .save_as_XXX() were renamed .write_XXX().
  While the old names are not deprecated, they will no longer
  appear in the documentation.

* Bug fixes: fixed crash when used by a CGI script, dropped minus
  sign for axis labels which are powers of ten, compile problem on
  Suns.

1.4.0 (06 Mar 2001)
-------------------

* Biggles now requires the Numeric Python module, and is no longer
  a pure Python module.

* Added support for contour plots with new Contours() component.

* HammerAitoffPlot(): new & improved geodesic algorithm; added
  support for rotated coordinates.

* Added FillAbove(), FillBelow() components. Fill*() objects now
  work with PlotKey().

* More robust interactive session detection. The config.ini option
  "[screen] guess_interactive" has been renamed "persistent".
  Removed interactive() function.

* Better tick guesses for log axes.

* Bug fixes: apparent data scaling by FramedArray when aspect_ratio
  is set; several related to calculating limits.

1.3.0 (17 Dec 2000)
-------------------

* Breaks old Table cell{spacing,padding} values; multipying them by
  100 should work in most cases.

* Renamed Label{Data,Plot} -> {Data,Plot}Label, LineSlope -> Slope, 
  and ErrorEllipses -> Ellipses. The old names still work but are
  deprecated.

* {Line,Symbol}Key have been superceded by PlotKey and are now
  deprecated.

* New plot type: CustomFramedPlot(). Similar to FramedPlot(), but
  allows finer control over the frame style.

* New plot type: HammerAitoffPlot(). An equal-area projection of the
  sphere, Hammer-Aitoff plots are commonly used in astrophysics.

* New FramedArray options: .uniform_limits & .cellspacing.

* New components: Circle(s), Ellipse, Geodesic, Point, PlotInset,
  and PlotLine.

* You can now specify a minimum fontsize with "fontsize_min" in
  config.ini.

* Various speed improvements, bug fixes, and infrastructure work.

1.2.1 (31 Oct 2000)
-------------------

* Reorganized config.ini file.

* The readcolumn() function can be configured to return Numeric arrays.

* Added interactive() function to let users control X window behavior.

* Fixed a couple of axis bugs triggered by very large limits.

1.2.0 (09 Oct 2000)
-------------------

* Added distutils setup.py file. [contributed by Berthold Höllmann]

* Added FramedArray container for grouping similar plots.

* Added SymmetricErrorBars[XY] helper functions.

* You can now say "t[i,j]=x" instead of "t.set(i,j,x)" for Table
  objects.

* Broke readcolumn() so users can pass in their own string -> number
  conversion functions. Also, readcolumn now ignores blank lines and
  those starting with a comment character.

* When used interactively, biggles now reuses the same X window
  insteading of creating a new window each time .show() is called.

* Fixed stupid printing bug.

1.1.0 (22 Sep 2000)
-------------------

* LineKey, SymbolKey, and Inset now take plot coordinates instead of
  data coordinates. Plot coordinates run from 0 -> 1 for each axis.
  Sorry about the breakage.

* Inset coordinates now specify the frame location, not the bounding
  box. More breakage.

* Replaced Label with LabelData & LabelPlot. LabelData works the same
  as Label, and LabelPlot takes plot coordinates instead of data
  coordinates.

* Added LineSlope, Line[XY] components.

* Added readcolumn() function. Returns a list of column values from
  a flat ASCII file.

* More namespace cleanup.

1.0.3 (02 Sep 2000)
-------------------

* Fixed a couple of layout bugs. Handling of large tables and
  elongated plots is greatly improved. [thanks to Jamie Mazer]

* .save_as_{eps,img}() now recognize the filename "-" as stdout.

* Better log ticks.

* Namespace cleanup.

1.0.2 (18 Aug 2000)
-------------------

* Top level layout overhauled. Ugly-hack-that-sorta-worked replaced
  with Elegant Solution. Naturally, it's quite a bit slower.

* Added "cellpadding" and "cellspacing" to Table, similar to HTML
  tables.

1.0.1 (14 Aug 2000)
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* Prettier tick labels. 

* Fixed stupid aspect_ratio bug.

1.0.0 (12 Aug 2000)
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* First stable release.

