matplotlib Code

Small bugfix to compile on gcc 4.x (Thanks, Eric)

First pass at Cairo support on the branch.

Update to use modern Numpy C API

Further speed improvements. Quadmesh extension code (still not as
fast as the old version, for various reasons.)
Fix bugs in quadmesh masking in PDF and PS backends.

Further speed improvements. For collections, now has faster ignoring
of elements that aren't provided, such as offsets. Paths now do not
even store the "default" codes array -- which is MOVETO followed by N
LINETOs. These are generated automatically by the iterators if no
codes array is provided. (Should also result in significant memory
savings for graphs with many points.)

Speed up pcolor_demo.py "benchmark" initialization by a factor of 2.
Cache the automatically created path codes by their length.
pcolor, quadmesh etc. create lots of polylines of the same length, and
there is no need to create a new identical codes array each time.
(Definite speed improvement, incredible memory improvement).
Change the default behavior to create open paths (which don't result
in a memory copy). Fix places that were relying on
automatically-created closed paths to create closed paths themselves
(and thus avoiding a copy).

Merged revisions 4059-4134 via svnmerge from
http://matplotlib.svn.sf.net/svnroot/matplotlib/trunk/matplotlib

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r4061 | jdh2358 | 2007-10-29 14:52:41 -0400 (Mon, 29 Oct 2007) | 2 lines

fixed some examples bugs
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r4062 | jdh2358 | 2007-10-29 15:00:25 -0400 (Mon, 29 Oct 2007) | 2 lines

added cohere demo
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r4072 | dsdale | 2007-10-31 15:43:54 -0400 (Wed, 31 Oct 2007) | 2 lines

added STIX fonts
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r4073 | dsdale | 2007-10-31 15:53:35 -0400 (Wed, 31 Oct 2007) | 2 lines

add STIX license agreement
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r4081 | efiring | 2007-11-01 03:21:00 -0400 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

Made contour auto level generation work with log color scale
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r4087 | dsdale | 2007-11-01 10:17:28 -0400 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

install fonts/otf to mpl-data
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r4088 | dsdale | 2007-11-01 10:32:52 -0400 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

dont enable usetex in arrow_demo.py
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r4092 | dsdale | 2007-11-01 12:56:33 -0400 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

rm configtest.py from repository
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r4093 | dsdale | 2007-11-01 12:57:26 -0400 (Thu, 01 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

remove STIXFonts zip file
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r4094 | dsdale | 2007-11-02 08:55:51 -0400 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

improved ghostscript version checking
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r4095 | jdh2358 | 2007-11-02 09:13:40 -0400 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

added Manuel's contour linestyle patch
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r4096 | dsdale | 2007-11-02 12:37:37 -0400 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

commit patch 1599876, fixes to qt4agg backend and qt4 blitting demo.
Thanks to Phil Thompson.
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r4097 | jdh2358 | 2007-11-02 14:45:38 -0400 (Fri, 02 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

fix unit changes for errorbar_limits code
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r4106 | efiring | 2007-11-04 21:36:20 -0500 (Sun, 04 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

Added easy access to minor tick properties (Pierre G-M)
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r4107 | mdboom | 2007-11-05 10:45:00 -0500 (Mon, 05 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

First pass at getting STIX fonts to work.
Support .otf fonts in font_manager.py
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r4110 | mdboom | 2007-11-05 12:30:08 -0500 (Mon, 05 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

Make STIX fonts work.
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r4112 | efiring | 2007-11-05 14:49:27 -0500 (Mon, 05 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

Minor cleanup; removed old ipython hack.
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r4113 | efiring | 2007-11-05 14:54:49 -0500 (Mon, 05 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

make step_demo use npyma
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r4114 | efiring | 2007-11-05 15:13:00 -0500 (Mon, 05 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

Make safezip accept more args; quadmesh_demo cleanup
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r4115 | mdboom | 2007-11-05 15:42:23 -0500 (Mon, 05 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

Fix rcParams bug.
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r4126 | mdboom | 2007-11-06 13:32:30 -0500 (Tue, 06 Nov 2007) | 3 lines

Prevent errors when using OpenType CFF fonts. This means turning off
subsetting on backend_pdf, and raising an exception in backend_ps.
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r4130 | mdboom | 2007-11-06 14:38:29 -0500 (Tue, 06 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

Converted STIX fonts from otf to ttf.
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r4131 | mdboom | 2007-11-06 14:38:57 -0500 (Tue, 06 Nov 2007) | 1 line

Removing STIX otf fonts
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r4132 | mdboom | 2007-11-06 14:39:23 -0500 (Tue, 06 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

Converted STIX fonts from otf to ttf.
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Use "from matplotlib.numerix import npyma as ma"

Updated docstring to reflect current reality.

Update docstring to reflect reality.