updated NEWS; export shorthands macro; new example 16

NEWS.md

@@ -3,15 +3,51 @@
 
 #### notes on release changes, ongoing development, and future planned work
 
-- I (@tbreloff) am in development of totally revamped internals, in which much of the logic in building series is changed to recursively stacking recipes in a modular fashion.  I'll write a blog post sometime soon detailing why this is amazing, but for now you can get a taste of it by looking at the [RecipesBase readme](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/RecipesBase.jl)
-- Version 0.6.2 will be the last full release of the "Old Plots", and the 0.6 minor will be only small bug fixes.
-- All new development should target 0.7 (recipes and subplots)!
+- All new development should target 0.7!
 
-## 0.7 (WIP on tb_recipes/dev and master)
+---
 
+## 0.7 (current master/dev)
+
+#### 0.7.0
+
+- Check out [the summary](http://plots.readthedocs.io/en/latest/plots_v0.7/)
 - Revamped and simplified internals
 - [Recipes, recipes, recipes](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/RecipesBase.jl/issues/6)
 - [Layouts and Subplots](https://github.com/tbreloff/Plots.jl/issues/60)
+- DataFrames is loaded automatically when installed
+- Overhaul to GroupBy mechanic (now offloads to a recipe)
+- Replaced much of the argument processing with recipes
+- Added series recipes, and began to strip down un-needed backend code.  Some recipes:
+	- line, step, sticks, bar, histogram, histogram2d, boxplot, violin, quiver, errorbars, density, ohlc
+- Added `@shorthands` and `@userplot` macros for recipe convenience
+- Better handling of errorbars and ribbons
+- New Axis type
+	- Tracks extrema and discrete values
+	- New `link_axes` functionality
+- `linetype` has been renamed `seriestype` (the alias is reversed)
+- Many fixes and huge cleanup in GR
+- Brand new subplot layout mechanics:
+	- `@layout` macro
+	- AbstractLayout, Subplot, GridLayout, and everything related
+	- Added dependency on Measures.jl
+	- Computations of axis/guide sizes and precise positioning
+- Refactored and compartmentalized default dictionaries for attributes
+- Deprecated Gadfly and Immerse backends
+- Added `series_annotations` attribute (previously that functionality was merged with `annotations`, which are not series-specific)
+- Removed `axis` attribute... currently not supporting twin (right) y axes
+- Check for `ENV["PLOTS_USE_ATOM_PLOTPANE"]` and default to false
+- Improved backend interface to reduce redundant code.  Template updated.
+- Added `html_output_format`, primarily for choosing between png and svg output in IJulia.
+- Partial support of Julia v0.5
+- Switched testing to dump reference images to JuliaPlots/PlotReferenceImages.jl
+- Moved docs-specific code to new JuliaPlots/PlotDocs.jl
+- Moved example list from ExamplePlots into Plots.
+- Added several examples and improved others.
+- Many other smaller changes and bug fixes.
+
+
+---
 
 ## Version 0.6
 
@@ -67,6 +103,10 @@
 - `translate`, `scale` and `rotate` methods for coordinates and shapes
 - and many more minor fixes and improvements
 
+---
+
+## Version 0.5
+
 #### 0.5.4
 
 - old heatmaps have been renamed to hist2d, and true heatmaps implemented (see https://github.com/tbreloff/Plots.jl/issues/147)

src/Plots.jl

@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ export
     with,
 
     @userplot,
+    @shorthands,
     # scatter,
     # scatter!,
     # bar,
@@ -158,7 +159,7 @@ export
     chorddiagram,
 
     # @kw,
-    @recipe,
+    # @recipe,
     # @plotrecipe,
 
     test_examples,

src/examples.jl

@@ -147,12 +147,11 @@ PlotExample("Histogram",
 
 PlotExample("Subplots",
     """
-    subplot and subplot! are distinct commands which create many plots and add series to them in a circular fashion.
-    You can define the layout with keyword params... either set the number of plots `n` (and optionally number of rows `nr` or
-    number of columns `nc`), or you can set the layout directly with `layout`.
+    Use the `layout` keyword, and optionally the convenient `@layout` macro to generate arbitrarily complex subplot layouts.
     """,
     [:(begin
-        plot(randn(100,5), layout=@layout([a;b;grid(1,3)]), t=[:line :histogram :scatter :steppre :bar], nbins=10, leg=false)
+        l = @layout([a{0.1h}; b [c;d e]])
+        plot(randn(100,5), layout=l, t=[:line :histogram :scatter :steppre :bar], leg=false, ticks=nothing, border=false)
     end)]
 ),