v0.3.1

This release carries no changes to the library's behaviour. It updates project
maturity, documentation, and packaging metadata.

Changed

• Development status is now Beta. The public API (the curved_text function and
  the CurvedText class, with pos, anchor, offset, box, and the keyword
  pass-through) has been stable across releases.

Added

• Hosted documentation and API reference at
  thiebes.github.io/curved-text.
• A docs extra (pip install curved-text[docs]) for building the
  documentation locally.

v0.3.0

• Added box: a casing drawn behind the label that follows the curve at the
  label's height, under the glyphs, so the label stays legible where it crosses
  the lines it labels. Because it is a single fill it gives solid coverage
  behind plain and mathtext alike, unlike a wide path_effects stroke, which
  cannibalizes adjacent per-character glyphs. Accepts True, a color string, or
  a dict of color / pad / alpha.
• Mathtext runs now honor path_effects, matching the per-character glyphs, for
  a lighter glyph-hugging casing (a white withStroke). Path effects already
  reached plain characters through the keyword pass-through; mathtext runs draw
  their own path and previously skipped them.
• Fixed mathtext vertical alignment: a run now rides the curve on the
  surrounding text's x-height line rather than its own bounding box, so a
  superscript or tall delimiter no longer drops the body below the neighbouring
  plain characters.

v0.2.0

Mathtext support: a $...$ run in the label is laid out by matplotlib's mathtext engine and bent through the curve's arc-length frame, mapping every glyph outline and rule box so radicals, fractions, and sized delimiters stay connected and follow the curve. Plain and math runs mix in one string. Pass parse_math=False to treat dollar signs literally; text.usetex is not supported.

v0.1.1

Fixed kinked letters on coarsely sampled curves: each glyph is now rotated to the chord across its own advance instead of the tangent of the single polyline segment under its midpoint, so rotation stays smooth across segment vertices. Glyph positions are unchanged.

v0.1.0

Initial release of curved-text: draw a string along an arbitrary matplotlib curve with arc-length positioning (pos), label anchoring (anchor), and a perpendicular offset (offset). Labels that overrun a curve end ride the straight tangent extension. Includes an example gallery and tests.