NEWS

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easeling 0.3.1

• Words drawn as separate calls on one baseline now end up in a single shape, one run per word. gridtext, and through it ggtext, lays out marked-up titles that way, and every word used to become its own box sized by our estimate of its width.
• Super- and subscripts stay on the line as shifted runs instead of breaking it into separate shapes.
• Glyphs (R >= 4.3) keep the positions the graphics engine gave them and are never merged.
• Nothing is drawn outside the canvas any more. Clip rectangles are intersected with the device, which xpd = NA can otherwise exceed, and raster cells are clipped one by one instead of only as a whole image.
• Rotated text now rotates the shape rather than the text inside it, so selecting a rotated axis label shows handles that follow the glyphs instead of an upright box. The text lands in the same place either way.
• An opaque raster cell no longer bleeds half a cell into a transparent neighbour. The overlap exists so that neighbouring cells paint over each other's antialiased seams, but nothing is drawn over a transparent cell, so the bleed ate into it.
• width and height take a units argument: "in", "cm", "mm" or "px" at 96 per inch.
• New bg argument for a background colour. The default is still transparent, so the sheet shows through.
• New symbolfamily argument for the typeface asked for on plotmath symbols, for when the main font does not cover them.
• New font_match() reports which font was really measured. Writing a drawing on a machine that lacks the font it will be opened with is normal, and systemfonts substitutes without saying so.

easeling 0.3.0

• easel_xml() renders plotting code straight to a DrawingML string with no file involved; easel_dev(file=) remains the file-based device.
• easel_size() and easel_dev(dims =, wb =) size the device from real workbook cell geometry.
• Optional real font metrics through 'systemfonts' (metrics =), with a built-in table and user-supplied tables as alternatives.
• Text placement calibrated against Excel's line layout (text_voff), with per-character vertical metrics for correct centring.
• Shaped clip paths (R >= 4.1): exact for arbitrary simple regions (Greiner-Hormann polygon intersection); multi-ring and oversized regions fall back to their bounding box with a warning.
• Hard-edged alpha and luminance masks render as clips; soft and inverse masks warn and draw unmasked (not representable in DrawingML).
• Linear and radial gradient fills, including the radial focus position.
• Glyph API support (R >= 4.3, e.g. 'marquee' typeset text) via an optional 'systemfonts' glyph-to-character mapping.
• Exact custDash patterns for all line types; evenodd paths keep their holes; runs on R >= 3.6 with all newer graphics API behind version guards.