1.1 Organisation of the PyX package

The PyX package is split in several modules, which can be categorised in the following groups

basic graphics functionality & canvas, path, deco, style, color, and connector
text output via TEX/LATEX & text and box
linear transformations and units & trafo and unit
graph plotting functionality & graph (including submodules) and graph.axis (including submodules)
EPS file inclusion & epsfile
Functionality  Modules 

These modules (and some other less import ones) are imported into the module namespace by using

from pyx import *
at the beginning of the Python program. However, in order to prevent namespace pollution, you may also simply use "import pyx". Throughout this manual, we shall always assume the presence of the above given import line.a