[metapost] MetaPost 1.901 announcement

[Franck Pastor]

Le 9 avr. 2014 à 11:57, Taco Hoekwater <taco at docwolves.nl> a écrit :

> 
> I am happy to announce a new release of MetaPost:
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> MetaPost 1.901
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> 
> This is still the release for TeX Live 2014, just adding some bug fixes.
> 
> A source archive can be downloaded from the files section at
> 
> https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost/
> 
> You can also do an anonymous subversion checkout:
> 
> $ svn checkout --username anonsvn https://foundry.supelec.fr/svn/metapost/tags/1.901
> 
> The password is anonsvn
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> What is new in MetaPost version 1.901:
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> 
> * Fixed a bug in 'decimal' mode that affected (among other things)
>  the directionpoint and bbox calculations.
> 
> * Fixed a bug in 'decimal' mode calculation of sine / cosine that
>  affected the precision of the answer in situations where
>  'numberprecision' was less than 34.
> 
> * Updated the number parsing in 'decimal' mode to detect 'too precise'
>  input and optionally generate an error in that case (depends on
>  'warningcheck')
> 
> * Fixed a bug in the svg output where it could crash in 'decimal' mode.
> 
> * Fixed a bug in the png output where it could get confused if there
>  was more than one text label
> 

I had noticed this bug but forgot to mention it here. Sorry for that (and glad it has been fixed yet).

> * Fixed a bug in the png output for stroked paths
> 
> 
> Have fun!

We will, for sure! 

By the way, has it been possible  to do — or plan — something about the units accuracy in double numbersystem mode mentioned lately by myself, and the arclength tolerances function problem mentioned by Harmut Henkel?

Best regards!

Franck Pastor