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Release: Lilaq 0.3.0

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Mc-Zen
Mc-Zen
Lilaq author/maintainer

The new version ships with a set of predefined themes that you can use to quickly change the style of your plots.

Moreover, various improvements to important components of Lilaq have been made along with the addition of a large selection of scientific and colorblind-friendly color maps.

Notably, we have added a new tutorial on data loading with Typst and Lilaq.

Changelog​

Additions

  • A set of predefined themes is now available!
  • Added the qualitative color sequence lq.color.map.okabe-ito according to https://jfly.uni-koeln.de/color/.
  • Added a range of sequential and diverging color maps that are scientific, i.e., perceptually uniform, perceptually ordered, and color-vision deficiency (CVD) friendly, see .
  • A new plot type hboxplot as horizontal pendant to the existing boxplot.
  • An axis.inverted property to quickly swap min/max limits.
  • A tick locator for symlog axes.

Breaking changes

  • ⚠️ The parameter line of hlines and vlines has been renamed to stroke to bring the signature in line with the other plotting functions.
  • ⚠️ The symlog.threshold is now by default 1 (instead of 2).
  • ⚠️ The color sequences matplotlib10 and matplotlib20 have been removed.

Improvements

  • diagram.legend now accepts a full legend as argument which enables one to specify all entries manually.
  • boxplot now allows defining the statistical values manually instead of passing a data set.
  • Functions like plot can now have empty coordinate arrays.

Fixed

  • The step mode for fill-between works again.
  • The parameters diagram.xlim and diagram.ylim don't fold any more through array concatenation with set rules.
  • For plot functions like colormesh that ignore the cycle style, the cycle counter is now not advanced.
  • Fixed an issue with the default tick locator when an integer tick distance was given.

Documentation

  • Added a tutorial on data loading.
  • Mention the usage of std.pad together with lq.place.
  • Mention the possibility of masking values with colormesh.
  • Articles in the reference section now contain a link that brings you to the source of the definition on GitHub.