Release: Lilaq 0.1.0

March 14, 2025 · 3 min read

Lilaq author/maintainer

Today we release the first official version of Lilaq.

It can now be installed from the Typst package manager through

#import "@preview/lilaq:0.1.0" as lq

This release makes some big changes and a vast number of improvements.

Primarily, types in form of elembic elements are introduced to greatly enhance user customization possibilities.

Changelog

Added

New elements grid, title, label, legend, diagram, tick, tick-label, spine, and errorbar.
Added hbar plotting function.
Support for individual rectangle side coloring of bar.
New filter parameter for axis.

Breaking changes

The parameters vmin/vmax have been renamed to min/max for quiver, contour, colormesh.
mesh now only returns the 2d mesh array and not any more also the given inputs. Furthermore, mesh returns a transposed mesh in comparison to before.
Consequently, colormesh and quiver now take transposed 2D input arrays.
Removed parameter color of contour in favor of the new stroke parameter.
hline and vline now expect coordinates as individual positional arguments (before one array was expected).
legend.pos is now legend.position.
title.pos is now title.position.
The format for asymmetric errorbars (in plot.xerr and plot.yerr) has changed. Please refer to the documentation.
axis.position now takes a dictionary instead of an array for combined align+offset configuration.

Improvements

Improved contour rendering by using the new curve element to remove rare artifacts.
colormesh now creates pixmaps when possible (when the coordinates are evenly spaced) to avoid artifacts and to support smooth interpolation.
Quiver can now take a function for color.
Axis exponents/offsets now use Zero for showing numbers.
Arrow tips for axis.
Arrow tips for line.
Added fill parameter to diagram.
Improved ticking heuristic for horizontal axes.
Use square cap for base stroke for stem and hstem.
Updated to tiptoe:0.2.0.

Fixed

plots legend images with error bars.
ticking: automatic e base label (after Typst 0.13 it was shown incorrectly).
fill-between now responds to the current style cycle.
Overflowing, crammed legends.
empty diagrams with log scales resulting in an error.
additional axes now respect diagram.margin.
Plots in additional axes now work properly: they are shown in the legend (if labeled), they behave properly with style cycles, and their z-index is not ignored anymore.
The default symlog formatter now uses Zero.

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