v0.13-beta

v0.13-beta (2014/02/06)

New features

• Switching to GitHub's Releases for downloads.
• TeX information such as page dimensions may now be easily passed to
  the programming-language side, using the new \setpythontexcontext
  command. Contextual information is stored in the context attribute
  of the utilities class, which is a dictionary (and also has
  attributes in Python).
• The utilities class now has pt_to_in(), pt_to_cm(), and
  pt_to_mm() methods for converting units of TeX points into inches,
  centimeters, and millimeters. These work with integers and floats,
  as well as strings that consist of numbers and optionally end in
  "pt". There is also a pt_to_bp() for converting TeX points
  (1/72.27 inch) into big (DTP or PostScript) points (1/72 inch).
• Expanded Quickstart. Quickstart is now compatible with all LaTeX
  engines. Quickstart now avoids microtype issues on some systems
  (#32).
• Added information on citing PythonTeX (#28).
• Utilities class has a new attribute id, which is a string that
  joins the command family name, session name, and session restart
  parameters with underscores. This may be used in creating files that
  need a name that contains a unique, session-based identifier (for
  example, names for figures that are saved automatically).

Backward-incompatible changes

• All utilities-class attributes with names of the form input_* have
  been renamed with the "input_" removed. Among other things, this
  makes it easier to access the context attribute (pytex.context
  vs. pytex.input_context).
• depythontex now has -o and --output command-line options for
  specifying the name of the output file. If an output file is not
  specified, then output is written to stdout. This allows
  depythontex output to be piped to another program.
• All scripts *2.py now have shebangs with env python2, and all
  scripts *3.py now have shebangs with env python3. This allows
  the wrapper scripts (env python shebang) to be used with the
  default Python installation, and the numbered scripts to be used
  with specific versions. Remember that except for console content,
  the --interpreter option is what determines the Python version
  that actually executes code. The version of Python used to launch
  pythontex.py merely determines the version that manages code
  execution. (--interpreter support for console content is coming.)
• Changed the template style used in the CodeEngine class.
  Replacement fields are now surrounded by single curly braces (as in
  Python's format string syntax), rather than double curly braces.
  Literal curly braces are obtained by doubling braces. This allows
  the use of literal adjacent double braces in templates, which was
  not possible previously.
• The Julia template now uses the new in() function, replacing
  contains(). This requires Julia v0.2.0+.

Bugfixes

• Modified test for LuaTeX, so that \directlua is not \let to
  \relax if it does not exist. This was causing incompatibility with
  babel under pdfTeX and XeTeX (#33).
• Added missing shebangs to depythontex*.py. Handling of utilspath
  is now more forgiving, so that pythontex_utils.py can be installed
  in alternate locations (#23).
• depythontex no longer leaves a blank line where
  \usepackage{pythontex} was removed.
• Console environments typeset with fancyvrb no longer end with an
  unnecessary empty line.
• Fixed bug in installer when kpsewhich was not found (#21).