PyX Reference Manual

Abstract

PyX is a Python package for the creation of PostScript and PDF files. It combines an abstraction of the PostScript drawing model with a TeX/LaTeX interface. Complex tasks like 2d and 3d plots in publication-ready quality are built out of these primitives.

• Introduction
  • Organisation of the PyX package
• Basic graphics
  • Introduction
  • Path operations
  • Attributes: Styles and Decorations
• Module path
  • Class path — PostScript-like paths
  • Path elements
  • Class normpath
  • Class normsubpath
  • Predefined paths
• Module metapost.path
  • Class path — MetaPost-like paths
  • Knots
  • Links
• Module deformer: Path deformers
• Module canvas
  • Class canvas
  • Class clip
• Module document
  • Class page
  • Class document
  • Class paperformat
• Module text: TeX/LaTeX interface
  • Basic functionality
  • TeX/LaTeX instances: the texrunner class
  • TeX/LaTeX attributes
  • Using the graphics-bundle with LaTeX
  • TeX message parsers
  • The defaulttexrunner instance
  • Some internals on temporary files
• Graphs
  • Introduction
  • Component architecture
  • Module graph.graph: Graph geometry
  • Module graph.data: Graph data
  • Module graph.style: Graph styles
  • Module graph.key: Graph keys
• Axes
  • Component architecture
  • Module graph.axis.axis: Axes
  • Module graph.axis.tick: Axes ticks
  • Module graph.axis.parter: Axes partitioners
  • Module graph.axis.texter: Axes texter
  • Module graph.axis.painter: Axes painter
  • Module graph.axis.rater: Axes rater
  • Module graph.axis.positioner: Axes positioners
• Module box: Convex box handling
  • Polygon
  • Functions working on a box list
  • Rectangular boxes
• Module connector
  • Class line
  • Class arc
  • Class curve
  • Class twolines
• Module epsfile: EPS file inclusion
• Bitmaps
  • Introduction
  • Bitmap module: Bitmap support
• Module bbox
  • bbox constructor
  • bbox methods
• Module color
  • Color models
  • Example
  • Color gradients
  • Transparency
• Module pattern
  • Class pattern
• Module unit
  • Class length
  • Predefined length instances
  • Conversion functions
• Module trafo: Linear transformations
  • Class trafo
  • Subclasses of trafo
• Appendix: Named colors
• Appendix: Named gradients
• Appendix: path styles
• Appendix: Arrows in deco module