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1Changes in 1.1.3:
2
3* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
4
5* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
6
7* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
8
9* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
10
11* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
12
13* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
14
15* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
16  when there's a presentation loaded.
17
18* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
19  in cave view.
20
21* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
22
23* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
24  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
25  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
26
27* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
28  filename for file history and window title.
29
30* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
31  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
32  only needed with GTK1.2.
33
34* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
35
36* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
37
38* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
39
40* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
41
42Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
43
44* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
45  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
46  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
47
48* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
49  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
50
51* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
52  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
53  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
54  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
55
56* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
57
58* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
59  with --help and --version.
60
61* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
62  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
63  which should have been called "newline", and was a broken testcase too!
64  Fixed all these problems.
65
66* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
67  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
68  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
69
70* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
71  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
72  sources.
73
74* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
75
76* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
77
78* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
79  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
80
81* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
82  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
83  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
84  animating.
85
86* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
87
88* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
89
90* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
91  to this branch.
92
93* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
94
95  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
96
97  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
98
99  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
100
101* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
102
103* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
104  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
105
106* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
107
108* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
109  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
110
111* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
112
113* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
114  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
115  for anyone building from CVS).
116
117* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
118
119* doc/aven.sgml: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
120
121* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
122
123* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
124
125* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
126  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
127  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
128
129* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
130  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
131
132* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
133
134* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
135  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is loaded.
136
137* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
138
139Changes in 1.1.1:
140
141* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
142  startup.
143
144* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
145  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
146
147Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0:
148
149* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
150  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
151  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
152
153* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
154  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
155  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
156
157* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
158  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
159  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
160
161* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
162
163* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
164  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
165
166* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
167  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
168
169* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
170  better use of screen space.
171
172* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
173
174* aven: Perspective view.
175
176* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
177
178* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
179  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
180
181* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
182  and load/save/run them.
183
184* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
185
186* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
187
188* aven: Depth fogging option.
189
190* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
191
192* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
193
194* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
195  showing the surface legs.
196
197* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
198
199Changes in 1.0.32:
200
201* aven: Fixed font sizes in "Print Preview" and printouts.
202
203* aven: In the print setup dialog, replaced "Orientation" radio buttons with
204  "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons.
205
206* aven: Fixed info box on printouts of elevations, tilted views, and
207  extend elevations.
208
209* aven: Added "fit on one page" option, and make it the default.
210
211* aven: Reorder "Cancel", "Preview", "Print" buttons and make "Print" the
212  default button.
213
214* aven: Read settings back from the print dialog when the "Print" button is
215  pressed (was only done for "Preview" previously).
216
217* aven: Sorted out the initial size of the "Print Preview" window.
218
219* aven: Fixed the window manager's close button on the "Print Preview" window
220  - previously this was being ignored.
221
222* aven: Sorted out initial survey scaling when loading a survey at startup.
223
224* aven: Fixed the measuring line to work better when the survey tree is
225  manipulated with keys.  Tweaked redrawing of the measuring line to be a
226  smidgen more efficient.  Fixed the blob and ring size which were one
227  pixel too small on Windows.
228
229* aven: Added "System Information:" section to the "About" dialog to hold
230  information useful when reporting bugs.  Currently it contains the wxWindows
231  version, OS version, and colour depth information.
232
233* aven: Changed the "About" dialog's "Close" button to be "OK" for consistency
234  with pretty much every other application.
235
236* aven: Added "File->Export as..." which integrates cad3d's functionality
237  within aven.
238
239* aven: Updated a few icons.
240
241* cad3d: Added SVG export support from John Pybus
242
243* (Unix version): Fixed to allow compilation with GCC 3.4
244
245* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to using innosetup 4 for the installer
246  (we were using innosetup 2).  This results in a much smaller download
247  and the installer now translates itself into the currently set language.
248  The installer will no longer work on Windows NT 3.51, but I seriously
249  doubt anyone is still using that...
250
251* Updates to German translation.
252
253Changes in 1.0.31:
254
255* (MS Windows version): Fixed problems with the new printing code by building
256  with a newer version of wxWindows (2.5.2 instead of 2.4.1).
257
258* aven: Fixed grid menu item so that it always correctly reflects whether the
259  grid is enabled or not.
260
261* aven: Minor improvements to appearance of a few toolbar icons.
262
263* Updates to Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, Slovak, and Spanish
264  translations.
265
266* cavern: Fixed Romanian message which was appearing in English .err files.
267
268Changes in 1.0.30:
269
270* aven: Added printing directly from Aven!
271
272* aven: Fixed memory leak when showing the "About" dialog.
273
274* (MacOS X version): Now installable from a disk image package.
275
276* cavern: Equates are no longer considered when deciding which stations are
277  flagged as surface and underground.
278
279* Romanian translation mostly completed.
280
281* (Unix version): Debian: Minor packaging tweaks.
282
283Changes in 1.0.29:
284
285* cad3d: Fixed problem with DXF files which stopped them loading with some
286  drawing packages (introduced in 1.0.27).
287
288* aven: Changed File->Exit to File->Quit.
289
290* Removed some unused messages from the message files.
291
292* (Unix version): Fixed SRPMs to build on RedHat 9 and Fedora Core 1 (patch
293  from John Pybus).
294
295* Romanian translation started.
296
297* (Unix version): Debian: Fixed new lintian warnings about missing quotes in
298  menu files.
299
300Changes in 1.0.28:
301
302* Fixed 3d file reading code to fix incorrect unpacking of compressed station
303  names in a rare case.  Also checked other rare cases work correctly.
304
305Changes in 1.0.27:
306
307* cad3d: DXF output now puts surface legs, stations, and labels in separate
308  layers.
309
310* (Unix version): distribute desc-svxedit.txt.
311
312Changes in 1.0.26:
313
314* cavern: Fixed interleaved topofil data style - the length was always being
315  calculated as zero.
316
317* (Unix version): aven: "All Files" now shows files without extensions too.
318
319* aven: added Ctrl+Q as shortcut for File->Exit.
320
321* aven: depth colouring now uses a proper colour gradient.
322
323* (MacOS X version): aven: the keyboard and mouse now work!  It turns out that
324  we must apply resources *after* installing.
325
326* (MacOS X version): aven: now works when run from the MacOS X Finder.
327
328* (MacOS X version): look for message files and other resources relative to the
329  binaries so that the user can install Survex from a disk image in the location
330  of their choice.
331
332* (MacOS X version): fixed not to try to build aven if wxWindows isn't
333  installed.
334
335* cad3d: fixed -e and -r options to not crash (the long versions have always
336  worked).
337
338* extend: fixed to initialise an internal structure - failing to do so was
339  probably causing crashes on some platforms.
340
341* Fixed standard graphics for "Note", "Warning", etc in the PostScript manual.
342
343* Documentation updated.
344
345* (Unix version): fixed svxedit man page which previously contained xcaverot
346  documentation!
347
348* test suite: check that cavern doesn't report "nan" or "NaN" for any values.
349
350* (Unix version): fixed configure --enable-defaultlang=XX to work.
351
352* (Unix version): fixed configure code to turn on lots of GCC warnings and fixed
353  most of them.
354
355* (MS Windows version): assorted tweaks to allow building with MS Visual C/C++.
356
357Changes in 1.0.25:
358
359* (MacOS X version): hopefully fixed building of aven.
360
361* (Unix version): updated config.guess and config.sub so should build out of
362  the box on more Unix platforms.
363
364* (Unix version): Debian: added missing Build-Depends on xlibs-dev.
365
366* (Unix version): RPMs: give up supplying binary RPMs due to apparently
367  insurmountable technical problems.
368
369Changes in 1.0.24:
370
371* cavern: fixed LEVEL (broken since around 1.0.8) and added test case.
372
373* cavern: corrected handling of declination in Compass DAT files and added test
374  case; also added tests for other aspects of Compass DAT file reading.
375
376* printps/printpcl: fixed blank page detection in some obscure cases.
377
378* Documentation: started manual section on working with Compass data files.
379
380* (Unix version): fixed compilation problems with aven and getopt.h on MacOS X
381  (and probably some other Unix versions).
382
383* (Unix version): Debian package now Build-Depends on gcc-3.2 and g++-3.2.
384
385Changes in 1.0.23:
386
387* Documentation: include 3d v3 file format description on MS Windows, MS DOS,
388  and RISC OS too; include PNG graphics for manual on MS Windows; minor updates
389  to manual.
390
391* Prefer wxWindows 2.4 if it's available.
392
393* (MacOS X version): detect MacOS X and look for MacOS X build of wxWindows;
394  automatically add resource fork to aven binary.
395
396* Disabled experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - it isn't currently
397  working and makes the printer drivers unusable on Chinese versions of MS
398  Windows.
399
400* (Unix version): tweaked debian packaging.
401
402* cavern: Handling of "*:" at start of file wasn't fully fixed in 1.0.19.
403
404Changes in 1.0.22:
405
406* aven: Fixed handling of extended elevations (and other flat surveys) -
407  they are meant to be "locked flat" but this wasn't fully working before.
408
409* Documentation: 3d v3 file format description: fixed error in description of
410  codes 0x01-0x0e; include it in binary packages (not only with the source
411  code).
412
413Changes in 1.0.21:
414
415* cavern: when reading Compass DAT files, we now processes compass and clino
416  backsights, and recognise the "X" flag which indicates a leg should be
417  entirely ignored.  And we now report correct line number with errors in
418  Compass .MAK files.
419
420* cavern: if "*infer plumbs on", don't infer a plumb if the clino is
421  +/- 90 degrees, but the backclino isn't (and vice versa).
422
423* cavern: fixed 3dx output so it actually works with Chasm once more.
424
425* cavern: don't allocate extra space needed for producing 3dx output for
426  Chasm unless we're actually producing that output - saves about 8 bytes
427  per station.
428
429* cavern: removed slightly too keen sanity check which could misfire in very
430  unusual circumstances.
431
432* (MS Windows version): all .ico files except 3d.ico have been missing since
433  1.0.17 (or maybe 1.0.16) - fixed.  You wouldn't notice this if you installed
434  over an previous version.
435
436Changes in 1.0.20:
437
438* aven: update display when "Metric" or "Degrees" is toggled.
439
440* cavern: fixed handling of compass and clino corrections in Compass survey
441  data - these were interpreted as radians rather than degrees so the
442  correction was about 57 times too large!)
443
444* Improved handling of Compass PLT files - if the survey name is empty, don't
445  insert a survey separator character.
446
447* Documentation: fixed incorrect markup which resulted in a bogus footnote.
448
449Changes in 1.0.19:
450
451* cavern: you can now process Compass format survey data (.DAT and .MAK files) -
452  these can even be linked into a Survex dataset with "*include fulford.dat" or
453  "*include lech.mak" to allow processing of mixed datasets.
454
455* cavern: major speedup (up to 60%) when reading in survey data containing
456  a lot of stations in the same survey hierarchy level (which is how Compass
457  files are handled).
458
459* cavern: don't warn about a compass reading on a plumbed leg if the
460  plumb was inferred and the compass reading is zero.
461
462* cavern: reduced memory usage in code which reads a survey station name.
463
464* cavern: reported CPU time would go negative if cavern ran for more than
465  about 36 minutes (highly unlikely but not impossible on a slow machine
466  with a large, highly interconnect survey) - fixed.
467
468* cavern: avoid unnecessary work when --percentage isn't specified.
469
470* cavern: Writing "*:" at the start of a .svx file would crash cavern - fixed
471  and added test case.  This is an error anyway, but it shouldn't cause a
472  crash.
473
474* Don't distribute unused toolbar icons.
475
476* Documentation: minor updates.
477
478Changes in 1.0.18:
479
480* (Unix version): Fixed "Process" action on .svx files.
481
482* (Unix version): File associations: if svxedit isn't installed, run gnome-edit
483  instead.
484
485* (Unix version): In Debian packages, now include file associations and file
486  icons in the survex package rather than survex-aven.
487
488* (Unix version): File associations were missing from RPM packages; moved
489  aven and svxedit man pages to their respective subpackages; moved aven icons
490  to the aven subpackage.
491
492* Documentation: added details of the 3d file format (version 3).
493
494* Updated TODO list.
495
496Changes in 1.0.17:
497
498* (MS Windows version): Fixed "Open in SvxEdit" to work (and if tcl isn't
499  install this action now falls back to using notepad).  SvxEdit now has
500  its own icon.
501
502* (Unix version): Install mime types, icons, and file associations for Gnome.
503  Note: at present GMC doesn't seem to notice new files being created (e.g.
504  Process on a .svx file creates .3d and .err files) - you have to manually
505  refresh the view.
506
507* Minor update to manual.
508
509Changes in 1.0.16:
510
511* (MS Windows version): Really fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
512  programs from finding the message files.
513
514* (MS Windows version): Remove any existing "Open" file association for .svx
515  files.
516
517Changes in 1.0.15:
518
519* (MS Windows version): Fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
520  programs from finding the message files.
521
522* (MS Windows version): "Open in Notepad" is now the double-click action
523  for .svx files once again, "Open in SvxEdit" is an action in the menu
524  obtained with the right mouse button.
525
526Changes in 1.0.14:
527
528* svxedit: This is a Survex data entry editor from the therion team.  It needs
529  tcl and wish installed - for MS Windows an installer is available for free
530  from Activeware.
531
532* Improved handling of Compass PLT files and CMAP xyz files - no longer change
533  dots to spaces in survey and station names - instead use a space as the
534  separator between survey name and station name.
535
536* aven: when picking non-overlapping labels, show a slight preference to shorter
537  labels with the aim of displaying more labels.
538
539* aven: fixed hard to notice problem which could cause the cave to appear
540  tilted sideways after a lot of manipulation.
541
542* cavern: Modest speed improvement (0.5% for sample dataset).
543
544* cavern: fixed a rarely sighted bug which caused erroneous error about some
545  stations not being attached to a fixed point.
546
547* cavern: fixed clino readings and DIRECTION to work in interleaved data.
548
549* cavern: improved error reporting when an invalid value is given for a
550  DIRECTION reading.
551
552* cavern: fixed "singular matrix" error when very low SDs were specified.
553
554* print*: if the --raw is used, the survey can now use the space this would
555  have taken up.
556
557* Reading of ASCII 3d files now copes with MSDOS/MS Windows line endings
558  once again.  Added regression test for this.
559
560* (MS Windows version): Programs run from the command line now find message
561  files without SURVEXHOME needing to be set.
562
563* Updated documentation.
564
565Changes in 1.0.13:
566
567* aven: Fixed bug which caused the occasional spurious leg to be shown
568  connecting arbitrary stations.
569
570* extend: try to extend along a survey, and make breaks where other surveys
571  join.
572
573* cavern: Number reading code reworked to allow repeat readings to be
574  supported, but the actual repeat reading code is currently disabled,
575  and everything should work exactly as before.
576
577* Experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - only a few messages are
578  currently translated.
579
580Changes in 1.0.12:
581
582* diffpos: fixed to work on 64bit architectures.
583
584* sorterr: fixed to work with more than 1024 traverses.
585
586* Fixed handling of iso-8859-2 character set and MS Windows code page 1250
587  (both cover Eastern European languages).
588
589* (MS Windows version): install file associations for Compass .plt and .plf
590  files and for CMAP .xyz files.  Also install the file icon for .plt and
591  .plf files in case Compass isn't installed (thanks to Larry Fish for
592  permission to include the icon).
593
594* (Unix version): running an installed program with an explicit path works
595  again.
596
597* (Unix version): xcaverot: automatically switch on PDA mode if the screen is
598  less than 640 pixels wide or less than 480 pixels high.
599
600* (Unix version): minor portability improvements.
601
602* Updates to Portuguese translation - all translations are now up-to-date.
603
604Changes in 1.0.11:
605
606* aven: improvements in 1.0.10 to the file type selector only work properly
607  on MS Windows, and with wxGtk >= 2.3 on Unix (the latest stable release is
608  2.2.9 where this doesn't work).  Fixed to work as well as possible on 2.2.9,
609  and as intended on 2.3.
610
611* aven: fixed so that loading PLT files works regardless of the current locale
612  (previously it would fail for locales where the decimal character wasn't
613  '.').
614
615* aven: key actions during autorotation no longer temporarily pause
616  autorotation.
617
618* aven: switching to plan or elevation while rotating is now smooth.
619
620* aven: removed undocumented and confusing "free rotation mode".
621
622* (MS Windows version): aven: focus now set correctly after loading a file by
623  double-clicking or from the command line.
624
625* cad3d: write dummy passage dimensions to .plt files to avoid Compass bug.
626
627* printwin/printps: now support coloured printouts.
628
629* print*: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
630
631* extend: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
632
633* Updates to Italian translation.
634
635* Minor documentation updates.
636
637Changes in 1.0.10:
638
639* (MS Windows version): aven: fixed assert failure upon turning on station
640  names.
641
642* aven: only add a file to the list of recently used files if it was opened
643  successfully.
644
645* aven: recognise ".plf" as a Compass PLT file too; and on Unix list "*.PLT",
646  "*.PLF", "*.XYZ", and "*.3D" as well as the lowercase versions to help people
647  who transfer files from MSDOS/MS Windows.
648
649* cavern: fixed bogus warning triggered by "*begin abc.def" (I'm not sure
650  that this should be valid, but the warning given wasn't appropriate).
651
652* Fixed scaling problem when reading PLT file (feet->metres conversion
653  factor was being applied backwards!)
654
655* Fixed potential problem when reading or writing a 3d file which couldn't
656  be opened.
657
658* Translate dots to spaces in survey names in Compass PLT files.
659
660* Better handling of PLT files which have a D command before any M command.
661
662* Updates to German and Italian translations.
663
664Changes in 1.0.9:
665
666* aven: Fixed jerky start when auto-rotation begins.
667
668* cavern: Fixed Direction reading - bug previously made it unusable.
669
670* (MS Windows version): cad3d: fixed broken PLT output (had a double CR at the
671  end of each line).
672
673* (Unix version): RPMs now have the docs in /usr/share/doc and the man pages
674  in /usr/share/man to conform with the FHS (and where RedHat packages put
675  them).
676
677* Updates to French, Spanish, Catalan, and Slovak translations.
678
679Changes in 1.0.8:
680
681* Slovak translation added; updated German, Catalan, and Spanish translations.
682
683* aven: reduced memory usage by around 25% and increased speed and
684  responsiveness.
685
686* aven: rate of rotation and switching between plan and elevation now adjusted
687  to the speed of redraw, so aven behaves in a similar way independent of the
688  speed of the computer or size of the survey.
689
690* aven: provide list of most recently loaded files (preserved between runs of
691  the program).
692
693* aven: settings for "Metric" and "Degrees" are preserved between runs.
694
695* aven: moved some menu items from "View" to "Controls" as they probably
696  belong there and the "View" menu was getting out of hand.
697
698* aven: cursor keys now translate cave in the same way the mouse does (i.e. now
699  work as in caverot and xcaverot).
700
701* aven: eliminated the "twinkling label" effect when dragging the cave with the
702  right mouse button.
703
704* aven: the measuring line moves much more smoothly now: the mouse cursor now
705  snaps to the nearest station, rather than just a near station; and when the
706  line moves, we now only redraw the affected area of the window.
707
708* aven: resolved annoying limit on zooming in on large surveys.  This was a
709  crude way of preventing random lines due to overflow in the windowing system.
710  Aven now clips lines itself at high zoom levels, and limits zoom in to
711  approximately 1mm/pixel.
712
713* aven: zoom in/out with keyboard wasn't subject to any limits - now restricted
714  to sane values as with zoom in/out with the mouse.
715
716* print*: added --raw switch to turn of info box, scale bar, and page footer.
717  This can be useful if you want to import the output into another application.
718
719* print*: improved output when --no-border is used.
720
721* printpcl/printdm: Added new .ini setting "font_bitmap" which allows the user
722  to choose between alternative fonts.  Current we supply "default" and "bold".
723
724* printps/printhpgl: Fixed --skip-blanks which would incorrectly skip non-blank
725  pages on rare occasions.
726
727* cavern: added support for BackCompass and BackClino.
728
729* cavern: implemented "*units clino percent".
730
731* cavern: added "*infer exports on".  Any stations seen while this is on will
732  have the necessary *export-s inferred when accessed from outside their
733  own survey.  This allows linking a survey which uses *export to one which
734  doesn't.  It's also useful for a maze cave where so many stations can
735  be linked to that listing them explicitly isn't desirable.
736
737* cavern: N-S, E-W, and vertical ranges now only count stations which are in
738  underground surveys.
739
740* cavern: *infer plumbs wasn't inferring -90 to be DOWN - fixed.
741
742* cavern: *infer was giving an internal error if the argument was unknown -
743  now it gives the correct error message.
744
745* cavern: fixed handling of omitted clino readings when OMIT is *set to be
746  different from MINUS and PLUS (new test omitclino).
747
748* cavern: fixed a bogus warning for any station which was only used in a line
749  of data which was rejected because of an error.
750
751* cavern: added error if the *units factor is zero (e.g. "*units tape 0 feet").
752
753* cavern: removed the ill-thought-out and never implemented LENGTHOUTPUT
754  and ANGLEOUTPUT quantities.
755
756* cavern: resolved mismatch between bcra5.svx and the default SDs, and the
757  odd values in bcra3.svx.  We are now interpreting the BCRA limits as 2
758  standard deviations (previously bcra5.svx used 3 sds, bcra3 used 3.33 sds for
759  tape and position, and .75 sds for compass and clino, and cavern used 1 sd
760  by default).
761
762* ChangeLog now only includes entries since the previous release (the full file
763  is 220K or so, and of interest to very few people).  MSDOS and MS Windows
764  versions now comfortably fit on a 1.44M floppy once again.
765
766* Test suite now checks that all programs will run successfully with "--help"
767  and with "--version".  This should avoid problems such as that which broke
768  the printer drivers in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
769
770* (Unix version): uninstalled binaries now use the path they are run with to
771  find support files, which means SURVEXHOME is no longer required, and has
772  been removed.
773
774Changes in 1.0.7:
775
776* print*: halted with a failed assertion in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
777
778Changes in 1.0.6:
779
780* aven: "Reverse Controls" now works as in xcaverot and caverot.
781
782* aven: free rotation mode (engage by pressing control while left dragging,
783  exit with Delete) improved.
784
785* aven: using File->Open when a file was already loaded caused a crash
786  if a station was "grey highlighted" in the survey tree - fixed.
787
788* aven: added hourglass for "find" operation.
789
790* aven: reenabled loading of files by drag-and-drop (accidentally disabled
791  in 1.0.4 and 1.0.5).
792
793* aven: improved handling of flat surveys (e.g. output of extend, surveys
794  with no clino information).
795
796* aven: surveys with stations but no legs no longer cause the labels and
797  crosses buttons to behave oddly.
798
799* aven: removed quite a bit of unused and superfluous code.
800
801* Spell-checked documentation.
802
803Changes in 1.0.5:
804
805* Fixed bug in img_open_survey() which could cause a crash if you tried to
806  open an unrecognised file (i.e. not .3d, .pos, .plt, or .xyz format).
807
808* North and East were the wrong way round when reading in .plt files.
809
810* cad3d: Improved .plt file output a little - there's probably enough file
811  structure for Compass to read them now.
812
813* Documentation updates.
814
815Changes in 1.0.4:
816
817* extend: previously only kept one name for an equated group of stations in the
818  extended .3d file; now keeps all the names.
819
820* cad3d: if an output filename is given, use its extension to pick the default
821  output format.
822
823* aven: movement with keyboard is now accelerated by Shift as in caverot.
824
825* print*: --no-borders fixed to work as documented; --no-cutlines added to
826  turn off the dashed lines where pages join on multi-page printouts.
827
828* aven: tracked down two uninitialised variables which seems to fix the
829  failure to load a survey on startup which some people have been experiencing
830  on Microsoft Windows.
831
832* aven: code cleaned up - should improve performance a little.
833
834* img routines: img_rewind() now returns a value indicating success/failure.
835
836* Improvements to .plt file reading, notably that distances in the file are
837  now interpreted as being in feet rather than metres.  Also .plt files should
838  now be recognised even with a different extension, and we cope with an odd
839  special case better.
840
841* Added support for reading CMAP XYZ files.  There are two variants of these
842  - the "shot" format is fully implemented, the "station" format currently
843  just reads the station names and positions - the legs are ignored (sadly
844  the sample files I have do not match the format specification).
845
846* (MacOS X version): aven: aven now builds on MacOS X - we just need to sort
847  out packaging now...
848
849* (MSDOS version): upgraded graphics library used to Allegro 4.0.1.
850
851* Documentation updates.
852
853Changes in 1.0.3:
854
855* aven: you can now select distances to be displayed in feet (or miles when
856  you zoom right out) instead of metres, and angles to be in grads instead
857  of degrees.
858
859* aven: show altitude of mouse pointer when in elevation view.
860
861* cad3d: fixed bug which caused --plt to crash on some platforms.
862
863* print*: added "Printing to `XXX'..." message to say where output is being
864  written.
865
866* Updated French translation; minor updates to other translations (mostly
867  sorting out clashing menu shortcuts in aven).
868
869* (Unix version): assorted portability tweaks.
870
871Changes in 1.0.2:
872
873* printdm/printpcl/printwin: take notice of font_size_labels setting in
874  print.ini etc.
875
876* cavern: Topofil can now be used with DIVING and CYLPOLAR styles; TOPOFIL
877  style is now synonymous with NORMAL.
878
879* cavern: *INFER EQUATES and *DATA TOPOFIL now work together correctly.
880
881* cavern: *FIX with 3 standard deviations but no covariances now works.
882
883* (MacOS X version): command line programs now build.  We're working on Aven.
884
885* Updates to the Catalan and Spanish translations.
886
887* xcaverot: documented environmental variables XCAVEROT_INDICATOR_RADIUS and
888  XCAVEROT_FONTNAME.
889
890* cad3d: added --plt option to produce crude approximation to Compass .plt
891  files - should be good enough for reading into Carto.
892
893* img library enhanced to allow Compass .plt files to be read as if they were
894  .3d files.
895
896Changes in 1.0.1:
897
898* (MS Windows version): printwin: fixed sizes of cross and page alignment
899  ticks.
900
901* Updates to the Portuguese and Italian translations.
902
903Changes in 1.0.0:
904
905* Fixed --survey option supported by many programs which was broken in 0.99.
906
907* aven: altered colours of "fixed points" and "entrances" buttons to match
908  the coloured blobs used to indicate them.
909
910* (MS Windows version): aven: changed current point highlighting in the
911  survey tree to use a light grey background rather than bold (bold causes
912  the text to "wriggle" as the highlight runs up or down).
913
914* (MS Windows version): file icons now have transparent backgrounds.
915
916* survex: removed conversion wrapper - you should use "cavern file.svx"
917  instead of "survex file.svx".
918
919* (Unix version): GCC 2.95 sometimes fails with an internal error when trying
920  to compile gfxcore.cc - if it does, the Makefile will now try recompiling
921  with a lower optimisation level.
922
923* (Unix version): when doing an "in directory" build from source, the HTML
924  manual is now installed in its own subdirectory as when doing a non
925  "in directory" build.
926
927* German translation now completely up-to-date.
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