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Hi all,

I bumped into gource yesterday, a great tool for visualizing the commit history of a version controlled package.

With Trilinos probably the most established large-scale software package for numerical purposes — CVS controlled since 1998 and Git since just last year —, I just tried it out on the current Git repository. The results are neat to look at, and tell the Trilinos story from Karen’s initial commits to Zoltan to the the plethora of packages being worked at by plenty of developers at every day. [Update:The development of Zoltan, ML, and Moocho have started independently, and when Trilinos was born their commit histories were merged into Trilinos’.]

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Hi,

so it’s time again for a new release of matlabtikz. This is first release where development happened exclusively in GitHub, with parts of the changes actually contributed by other people as well.

I’d say this release has seen the largest refactoring since matlab2tikz was born, and apart from that there’s also a few interesting changes for end users:

Hi all,

I recently ran into some issues with installing fonts in LaTeX (sheesh…) using Marc Penninga’s autoinst, but thanks to Marc’s very quick fixes, most of it has been sorted out pretty quickly; I suppose there will be a new release of autoinst sometime soon.

Anyhow, autoinst is written Perl which means that once I try to tweak it, it’ll probably format your primary hard drive instead of converting fonts. :)

Hi all,

considering the amount of mails I received lately concerning the matlab2tikz converter, I decided to move the project to a more appropriate spot. Having considered a few options, I found GitHub quite suitable, so matlab2tikz will now be found at

http://github.com/nicki/matlab2tikz.

Hi all,

development for a translator from matplotlib to the TikZ-based pgfplots has started at

http://github.com/nicki/matplotlib2tikz

As of now, the script is still rather simplistic, but can already deal with line plots, images, subplots, and color bars. Adding new functionality should not be overly complicated.