Added Eric's tick direction patch

svn path=/trunk/matplotlib/; revision=1711

Author: jdh2358

CHANGELOG

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 New entries should be added at the top
 
+2005-09-06 Added Eric's tick.direction patch: in or out in rc
+
 2005-09-06 Added Martin's rectangle selector widget
+
 2005-09-04 Fixed a logic err in text.py that was preventing rgxsuper
            from matching - JDH
 

TODO

@@ -714,4 +714,6 @@ ZeroDivisionError: SeparableTransformation::eval_scalars yin interval is zero; c
    which can conflict with code that uses mpl as a library and process
    options itself.
 
--- Darren's black band ps image problem.
+-- DONE Darren's black band ps image problem.
+
+-- Martin's zoomhist bug

examples/strip_chart.py

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+"""
+This example shows how to emulate a digital osilloscope.  See the
+animation tutorial at
+http://www.scipy.org/wikis/topical_software/Animations
+"""
+
+h