• CTAN update: asymptote

    From CTAN Announcements@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 28 09:05:08 2024
    John Bowman submitted an update to the

    asymptote

    package.

    Version: 2.87
    License: lgpl3

    Summary description: 2D and 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language

    Announcement text: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Templated imports were implemented.
    An incorrect dvisvgm optimization is avoided.
    SVG gradient shading offsets were fixed.
    Integer are now implicitly formatted with full precision.
    Inferred assignment of void type is prohibited.
    An LSP segmentation fault was fixed.
    Repeated stripping of file extensions is avoided.
    The --output-directory option of latexmk is supported.
    The OSMesa compatibility profile is used for offscreen rendering.
    The fitscreen toggle is fixed.
    The context menu in Xasy is now only opened for GUI-drawn items.
    A -v3d option allows embedding V3D content within a PDF file.
    A workaround was implemented for a MacOS libc++ parsing bug.
    The documentation was updated.

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  • From CTAN Announcements@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 9 12:27:48 2024
    John Bowman submitted an update to the

    asymptote

    package.

    Version: 2.88
    License: lgpl3

    Summary description: 2D and 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language

    Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------------------------------

    Building against specific static libraries is supported again.
    An ambiguity in statistics.h was resolved.
    The output of dvisvgm is optimized by default.
    PDF 1.5 output is now generated.

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  • From CTAN Announcements@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 26 08:01:08 2024
    John Bowman submitted an update to the

    asymptote

    package.

    Version: 2.89
    License: lgpl3

    Summary description: 2D and 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language

    Announcement text: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Portability fixes were made to allow static builds with or without pkg-config. Static linking of the GSL library is now supported.
    Redundant templated imports are avoided.

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  • From CTAN Announcements@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 23 08:25:46 2024
    John Bowman submitted an update to the

    asymptote

    package.

    Version: 2.90 2024-06-21
    License: lgpl3

    Summary description: 2D and 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language

    Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------------------------------

    A bug in the approximate transparency rendering code for GPUs
    without SSBO support was fixed.

    Support was added for templated accesses involving imported types,
    top-level structure types, and static fields.

    ImageMagick magick convert is now used instead of convert.

    The add(picture dest, picture src, pair position) function now
    respects size specifications (backwards incompatible; the previous
    behaviour can be obtained with add(dest,src.fit(identity()),position).

    The terminal is now reset upon exit. The erase command was fixed.

    Picture scalings in different dimensions are decoupled again.

    Flycheck syntax checking support for Emacs was added.

    Portability issues were addressed.

    Improvements were made to the documentation, including an
    introduction to deferred drawing.

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    https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/asymptote/

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  • From CTAN Announcements@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 16 13:04:46 2024
    John Bowman submitted an update to the

    asymptote

    package.

    Version: 2.91 2024-08-14
    License: lgpl3

    Summary description: 2D and 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language

    Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------------------------------

    By default, orthographic projections now use center=true;
    the camera and target are automatically centered within the scene.

    The surface constructor for triangles was fixed.

    A bug in the WebGL flatness test was fixed.

    Triangle group bugs were fixed and now produce compact HTML output.

    Triangle groups are used for indexed surfaces drawn with the render option
    tessellate=true.

    GLSL error reporting was restored.

    The reported camera up vector was fixed.

    The map module was fixed.

    A syntax warning in Xasy was fixed.

    Improvements were made to the slide module.

    A bug was fixed in the experimental settings.render=0 mode.

    The debug option now outputs a traceback.

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  • From CTAN Announcements@21:1/5 to All on Wed Nov 13 08:05:28 2024
    John Bowman submitted an update to the

    asymptote

    package.

    Version: 2.93
    License: lgpl3

    Summary description: 2D and 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language

    Announcement text: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    A portability issue with a recent version of Ubuntu was addressed.
    The windows binary is now built natively using CMake.

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  • From CTAN Announcements@21:1/5 to CTAN Announcements on Fri Nov 15 14:29:14 2024
    John Bowman submitted an update to the

    asymptote

    package.

    Version: 2.94
    License: lgpl3

    Summary description: 2D and 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language

    Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------------------------------

    Portability fixes were implemented for compiling under MacOS.

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  • From CTAN Announcements@21:1/5 to CTAN Announcements on Tue Nov 26 18:41:13 2024
    John Bowman submitted an update to the

    asymptote

    package.

    Version: 2.95
    License: lgpl3

    Summary description: 2D and 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language

    Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------------------------------

    Portability fixes were implemented.

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    The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at
    https://ctan.org/pkg/asymptote

    The package’s files themselves can be inspected at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/asymptote/

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  • From CTAN Announcements@21:1/5 to CTAN Announcements on Sat Feb 8 19:31:00 2025
    John Bowman submitted an update to the

    asymptote

    package.

    Version: 2.96
    License: lgpl3

    Summary description: 2D and 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language

    Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------------------------------

    New keywords autounravel and using were added.

    Issues with templated imports were fixed.

    Asymptote now ships with the Boehm garbage collector.

    Portability fixes were implemented.

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    The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at
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    https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/asymptote/

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  • From CTAN Announcements@21:1/5 to CTAN Announcements on Mon Feb 10 21:19:32 2025
    John Bowman submitted updates to the

    asymptote

    package.

    Version: 2.98
    License: lgpl3

    Summary description: 2D and 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language

    Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------------------------------

    Version: 2.97
    Build issues were fixed.

    Version: 2.98
    Prebuilt Xasy support files are distributed again.

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  • From CTAN Announcements@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 12 09:57:16 2025
    John Bowman submitted an update to the

    asymptote

    package.

    Version: 2.99
    License: lgpl3

    Summary description: 2D and 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language

    Announcement text: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    The libtool dependence of configure was removed.
    Dependencies of gc builds are no longer tracked.
    The latest boost library is supported.
    Further build issues were fixed.

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  • From CTAN Announcements@21:1/5 to CTAN Announcements on Tue Feb 18 11:00:27 2025
    John Bowman submitted an update to the

    asymptote

    package.

    Version: 3.00
    License: lgpl3

    Summary description: 2D and 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language

    Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------------------------------

    Configuration issues were addressed.

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    The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at
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  • From CTAN Announcements@21:1/5 to CTAN Announcements on Tue Feb 25 10:05:47 2025
    John Bowman submitted an update to the

    asymptote

    package.

    Version: 3.01
    License: lgpl3

    Summary description: 2D and 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language

    Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------------------------------

    A workaround was implemented to fix a segmentation fault under MacOS Monterey.

    Specifying make SILENT_MAKE= yields more verbose build diagnostics.

    A floating point exception was fixed.

    Configuration and compilation issues were addressed.

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  • From CTAN Announcements@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 13 10:52:22 2025
    John Bowman submitted an update to the

    asymptote

    package.

    Version number: 3.02
    License type: lgpl3

    Summary description: 2D and 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language

    Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------------------------------


    The documentation was updated. The MSWindows search path was fixed.
    Random number generators are now initially seeded with std::random_device.
    The rendering of 3D pixels was fixed.


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  • From CTAN Announcements@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 13 09:11:23 2025
    John Bowman submitted an update to the

    asymptote

    package.

    Version: 3.03
    License: lgpl3

    Summary description: 2D and 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language

    Announcement text: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    The xasy setting was fixed.
    The rename function and --outname setting are supported again under MSWindows.

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  • From CTAN Announcements@21:1/5 to CTAN Announcements on Mon May 26 22:06:38 2025
    John Bowman submitted an update to the

    asymptote

    package.

    Version: 3.04
    License: lgpl3

    Summary description: 2D and 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language

    Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------------------------------

    To support transparent backgrounds, the png16malpha driver of Ghostscript 10
    is now used as the default pngdriver; use settings.pngdriver="png16m" or
    settings.pngdriver="pngalpha" for older versions of Ghostscript.
    The projection-dependence of WebGL shaders was removed for correct rendering
    of multiple embedded images.
    A new setting keys generates WebGL comments to identify each generated object.
    Unlink issues under MSWindows and compilation issues were addressed.

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  • From CTAN Announcements@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 5 09:00:10 2025
    John Bowman submitted an update to the

    asymptote

    package.

    Version: 3.05
    License: lgpl3

    Summary description: 2D and 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language

    Announcement text: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    A bug in handling Xasy-generated transforms was fixed.
    The asymptote.ualberta.ca server was updated to use the https protocal.
    Double precision integer XDR reads and writes were fixed under UNIX;
    XDR and binary string reads and writes were implemented.
    These overloaded virtual file fields were exposed again:
    singlereal, singleint, signedint, line, word, csv, and dimension.
    To support MacOS X, the explicit 'gif:' format was removed from the
    animate call; warning messages were addressed.
    Reading V3D files with the native Windows build was fixed.

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