88.. glossary ::
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1010 AGG
11- The Anti-Grain Geometry (`Agg <http://antigrain.com/ >`_) rendering engine, capable of rendering
12- high-quality images
11+ The Anti-Grain Geometry (`Agg <http://antigrain.com/ >`_) rendering
12+ engine, capable of rendering high-quality images
1313
1414 Cairo
1515 The `Cairo graphics <https://cairographics.org >`_ engine
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ Glossary
2020 provides extensions to the standard datetime module
2121
2222 EPS
23- Encapsulated Postscript (`EPS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulated_PostScript >`_)
23+ Encapsulated Postscript (`EPS
24+ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulated_PostScript> `_)
2425
2526 FreeType
2627 `FreeType <https://www.freetype.org/ >`_ is a font rasterization
@@ -32,7 +33,8 @@ Glossary
3233 The Gimp Drawing Kit for GTK+
3334
3435 GTK
35- The GIMP Toolkit (`GTK <https://www.gtk.org/ >`_) graphical user interface library
36+ The GIMP Toolkit (`GTK <https://www.gtk.org/ >`_) graphical user interface
37+ library
3638
3739 JPG
3840 The Joint Photographic Experts Group (`JPEG
@@ -47,13 +49,14 @@ Glossary
4749 deviation, fourier transforms, and convolutions.
4850
4951 PDF
50- Adobe's Portable Document Format (`PDF <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format >`_)
52+ Adobe's Portable Document Format (`PDF
53+ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format> `_)
5154
5255 PNG
5356 Portable Network Graphics (`PNG
54- <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics> `_), a raster graphics format
55- that employs lossless data compression which is more suitable
56- for line art than the lossy jpg format. Unlike the gif format,
57+ <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics> `_), a raster
58+ graphics format that employs lossless data compression which is more
59+ suitable for line art than the lossy jpg format. Unlike the gif format,
5760 png is not encumbered by requirements for a patent license.
5861
5962 PS
@@ -64,12 +67,24 @@ Glossary
6467 channel. PDF was designed in part as a next-generation document
6568 format to replace postscript
6669
70+ pgi
71+ `pgi <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pgi/> ` exists as a relatively
72+ new Python wrapper to GTK3 and acts as a pure python alternative to
73+ PyGObject. pgi still exists in its infancy, currently missing many
74+ features of PyGObject. However Matplotlib does not use any of these
75+ missing features.
76+
6777 pygtk
6878 `pygtk <http://www.pygtk.org/ >`_ provides python wrappers for
6979 the :term: `GTK ` widgets library for use with the GTK or GTKAgg
7080 backend. Widely used on linux, and is often packages as
7181 'python-gtk2'
7282
83+ PyGObject
84+ Like :term: `pygtk `, `PyGObject <http://www.pygtk.org/> ` provides
85+ python wrappers for the :term: `GTK ` widgets library; unlike pygtk,
86+ PyGObject wraps GTK3 instead of the now obsolete GTK2.
87+
7388 pyqt
7489 `pyqt <https://wiki.python.org/moin/PyQt >`_ provides python
7590 wrappers for the :term: `Qt ` widgets library and is required by
@@ -82,14 +97,12 @@ Glossary
8297 language widely used for scripting, application development, web
8398 application servers, scientific computing and more.
8499
85-
86100 pytz
87101 `pytz <http://pythonhosted.org/pytz/ >`_ provides the Olson tz
88102 database in Python. it allows accurate and cross platform
89103 timezone calculations and solves the issue of ambiguous times at
90104 the end of daylight savings
91105
92-
93106 Qt
94107 `Qt <https://www.qt.io/ >`__ is a cross-platform
95108 application framework for desktop and embedded development.
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