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1Changes in 1.1.4:
2
3* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
4
5* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
6  continental European countries).
7
8* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
9  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
10  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
11
12* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
13
14* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
15  they're needed.
16
17* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
18
19* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
20
21* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
22
23* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
24  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
25  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
26
27* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
28
29Changes in 1.1.3:
30
31* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
32
33* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
34
35* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
36
37* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
38
39* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
40
41* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
42
43* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
44  when there's a presentation loaded.
45
46* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
47  in cave view.
48
49* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
50
51* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
52  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
53  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
54
55* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
56  filename for file history and window title.
57
58* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
59  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
60  only needed with GTK1.2.
61
62* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
63
64* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
65
66* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
67
68* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
69
70Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
71
72* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
73  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
74  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
75
76* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
77  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
78
79* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
80  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
81  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
82  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
83
84* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
85
86* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
87  with --help and --version.
88
89* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
90  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
91  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
92  Fixed all these problems.
93
94* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
95  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
96  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
97
98* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
99  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
100  sources.
101
102* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
103
104* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
105
106* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
107  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
108
109* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
110  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
111  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
112  animating.
113
114* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
115
116* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
117
118* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
119  to this branch.
120
121* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
122
123  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
124
125  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
126
127  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
128
129* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
130
131* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
132  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
133
134* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
135
136* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
137  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
138
139* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
140
141* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
142  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
143  for anyone building from CVS).
144
145* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
146
147* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
148
149* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
150
151* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
152
153* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
154  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
155  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
156
157* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
158  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
159
160* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
161
162* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
163  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
164  loaded).
165
166* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
167
168Changes in 1.1.1:
169
170* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
171  startup.
172
173* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
174  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
175
176Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0:
177
178* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
179  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
180  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
181
182* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
183  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
184  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
185
186* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
187  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
188  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
189
190* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
191
192* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
193  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
194
195* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
196  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
197
198* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
199  better use of screen space.
200
201* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
202
203* aven: Perspective view.
204
205* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
206
207* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
208  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
209
210* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
211  and load/save/run them.
212
213* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
214
215* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
216
217* aven: Depth fogging option.
218
219* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
220
221* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
222
223* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
224  showing the surface legs.
225
226* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
227
228Changes in 1.0.32:
229
230* aven: Fixed font sizes in "Print Preview" and printouts.
231
232* aven: In the print setup dialog, replaced "Orientation" radio buttons with
233  "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons.
234
235* aven: Fixed info box on printouts of elevations, tilted views, and
236  extend elevations.
237
238* aven: Added "fit on one page" option, and make it the default.
239
240* aven: Reorder "Cancel", "Preview", "Print" buttons and make "Print" the
241  default button.
242
243* aven: Read settings back from the print dialog when the "Print" button is
244  pressed (was only done for "Preview" previously).
245
246* aven: Sorted out the initial size of the "Print Preview" window.
247
248* aven: Fixed the window manager's close button on the "Print Preview" window
249  - previously this was being ignored.
250
251* aven: Sorted out initial survey scaling when loading a survey at startup.
252
253* aven: Fixed the measuring line to work better when the survey tree is
254  manipulated with keys.  Tweaked redrawing of the measuring line to be a
255  smidgen more efficient.  Fixed the blob and ring size which were one
256  pixel too small on Windows.
257
258* aven: Added "System Information:" section to the "About" dialog to hold
259  information useful when reporting bugs.  Currently it contains the wxWindows
260  version, OS version, and colour depth information.
261
262* aven: Changed the "About" dialog's "Close" button to be "OK" for consistency
263  with pretty much every other application.
264
265* aven: Added "File->Export as..." which integrates cad3d's functionality
266  within aven.
267
268* aven: Updated a few icons.
269
270* cad3d: Added SVG export support from John Pybus
271
272* (Unix version): Fixed to allow compilation with GCC 3.4
273
274* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to using innosetup 4 for the installer
275  (we were using innosetup 2).  This results in a much smaller download
276  and the installer now translates itself into the currently set language.
277  The installer will no longer work on Windows NT 3.51, but I seriously
278  doubt anyone is still using that...
279
280* Updates to German translation.
281
282Changes in 1.0.31:
283
284* (MS Windows version): Fixed problems with the new printing code by building
285  with a newer version of wxWindows (2.5.2 instead of 2.4.1).
286
287* aven: Fixed grid menu item so that it always correctly reflects whether the
288  grid is enabled or not.
289
290* aven: Minor improvements to appearance of a few toolbar icons.
291
292* Updates to Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, Slovak, and Spanish
293  translations.
294
295* cavern: Fixed Romanian message which was appearing in English .err files.
296
297Changes in 1.0.30:
298
299* aven: Added printing directly from Aven!
300
301* aven: Fixed memory leak when showing the "About" dialog.
302
303* (MacOS X version): Now installable from a disk image package.
304
305* cavern: Equates are no longer considered when deciding which stations are
306  flagged as surface and underground.
307
308* Romanian translation mostly completed.
309
310* (Unix version): Debian: Minor packaging tweaks.
311
312Changes in 1.0.29:
313
314* cad3d: Fixed problem with DXF files which stopped them loading with some
315  drawing packages (introduced in 1.0.27).
316
317* aven: Changed File->Exit to File->Quit.
318
319* Removed some unused messages from the message files.
320
321* (Unix version): Fixed SRPMs to build on RedHat 9 and Fedora Core 1 (patch
322  from John Pybus).
323
324* Romanian translation started.
325
326* (Unix version): Debian: Fixed new lintian warnings about missing quotes in
327  menu files.
328
329Changes in 1.0.28:
330
331* Fixed 3d file reading code to fix incorrect unpacking of compressed station
332  names in a rare case.  Also checked other rare cases work correctly.
333
334Changes in 1.0.27:
335
336* cad3d: DXF output now puts surface legs, stations, and labels in separate
337  layers.
338
339* (Unix version): distribute desc-svxedit.txt.
340
341Changes in 1.0.26:
342
343* cavern: Fixed interleaved topofil data style - the length was always being
344  calculated as zero.
345
346* (Unix version): aven: "All Files" now shows files without extensions too.
347
348* aven: added Ctrl+Q as shortcut for File->Exit.
349
350* aven: depth colouring now uses a proper colour gradient.
351
352* (MacOS X version): aven: the keyboard and mouse now work!  It turns out that
353  we must apply resources *after* installing.
354
355* (MacOS X version): aven: now works when run from the MacOS X Finder.
356
357* (MacOS X version): look for message files and other resources relative to the
358  binaries so that the user can install Survex from a disk image in the location
359  of their choice.
360
361* (MacOS X version): fixed not to try to build aven if wxWindows isn't
362  installed.
363
364* cad3d: fixed -e and -r options to not crash (the long versions have always
365  worked).
366
367* extend: fixed to initialise an internal structure - failing to do so was
368  probably causing crashes on some platforms.
369
370* Fixed standard graphics for "Note", "Warning", etc in the PostScript manual.
371
372* Documentation updated.
373
374* (Unix version): fixed svxedit man page which previously contained xcaverot
375  documentation!
376
377* test suite: check that cavern doesn't report "nan" or "NaN" for any values.
378
379* (Unix version): fixed configure --enable-defaultlang=XX to work.
380
381* (Unix version): fixed configure code to turn on lots of GCC warnings and fixed
382  most of them.
383
384* (MS Windows version): assorted tweaks to allow building with MS Visual C/C++.
385
386Changes in 1.0.25:
387
388* (MacOS X version): hopefully fixed building of aven.
389
390* (Unix version): updated config.guess and config.sub so should build out of
391  the box on more Unix platforms.
392
393* (Unix version): Debian: added missing Build-Depends on xlibs-dev.
394
395* (Unix version): RPMs: give up supplying binary RPMs due to apparently
396  insurmountable technical problems.
397
398Changes in 1.0.24:
399
400* cavern: fixed LEVEL (broken since around 1.0.8) and added test case.
401
402* cavern: corrected handling of declination in Compass DAT files and added test
403  case; also added tests for other aspects of Compass DAT file reading.
404
405* printps/printpcl: fixed blank page detection in some obscure cases.
406
407* Documentation: started manual section on working with Compass data files.
408
409* (Unix version): fixed compilation problems with aven and getopt.h on MacOS X
410  (and probably some other Unix versions).
411
412* (Unix version): Debian package now Build-Depends on gcc-3.2 and g++-3.2.
413
414Changes in 1.0.23:
415
416* Documentation: include 3d v3 file format description on MS Windows, MS DOS,
417  and RISC OS too; include PNG graphics for manual on MS Windows; minor updates
418  to manual.
419
420* Prefer wxWindows 2.4 if it's available.
421
422* (MacOS X version): detect MacOS X and look for MacOS X build of wxWindows;
423  automatically add resource fork to aven binary.
424
425* Disabled experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - it isn't currently
426  working and makes the printer drivers unusable on Chinese versions of MS
427  Windows.
428
429* (Unix version): tweaked debian packaging.
430
431* cavern: Handling of "*:" at start of file wasn't fully fixed in 1.0.19.
432
433Changes in 1.0.22:
434
435* aven: Fixed handling of extended elevations (and other flat surveys) -
436  they are meant to be "locked flat" but this wasn't fully working before.
437
438* Documentation: 3d v3 file format description: fixed error in description of
439  codes 0x01-0x0e; include it in binary packages (not only with the source
440  code).
441
442Changes in 1.0.21:
443
444* cavern: when reading Compass DAT files, we now processes compass and clino
445  backsights, and recognise the "X" flag which indicates a leg should be
446  entirely ignored.  And we now report correct line number with errors in
447  Compass .MAK files.
448
449* cavern: if "*infer plumbs on", don't infer a plumb if the clino is
450  +/- 90 degrees, but the backclino isn't (and vice versa).
451
452* cavern: fixed 3dx output so it actually works with Chasm once more.
453
454* cavern: don't allocate extra space needed for producing 3dx output for
455  Chasm unless we're actually producing that output - saves about 8 bytes
456  per station.
457
458* cavern: removed slightly too keen sanity check which could misfire in very
459  unusual circumstances.
460
461* (MS Windows version): all .ico files except 3d.ico have been missing since
462  1.0.17 (or maybe 1.0.16) - fixed.  You wouldn't notice this if you installed
463  over an previous version.
464
465Changes in 1.0.20:
466
467* aven: update display when "Metric" or "Degrees" is toggled.
468
469* cavern: fixed handling of compass and clino corrections in Compass survey
470  data - these were interpreted as radians rather than degrees so the
471  correction was about 57 times too large!)
472
473* Improved handling of Compass PLT files - if the survey name is empty, don't
474  insert a survey separator character.
475
476* Documentation: fixed incorrect markup which resulted in a bogus footnote.
477
478Changes in 1.0.19:
479
480* cavern: you can now process Compass format survey data (.DAT and .MAK files) -
481  these can even be linked into a Survex dataset with "*include fulford.dat" or
482  "*include lech.mak" to allow processing of mixed datasets.
483
484* cavern: major speedup (up to 60%) when reading in survey data containing
485  a lot of stations in the same survey hierarchy level (which is how Compass
486  files are handled).
487
488* cavern: don't warn about a compass reading on a plumbed leg if the
489  plumb was inferred and the compass reading is zero.
490
491* cavern: reduced memory usage in code which reads a survey station name.
492
493* cavern: reported CPU time would go negative if cavern ran for more than
494  about 36 minutes (highly unlikely but not impossible on a slow machine
495  with a large, highly interconnect survey) - fixed.
496
497* cavern: avoid unnecessary work when --percentage isn't specified.
498
499* cavern: Writing "*:" at the start of a .svx file would crash cavern - fixed
500  and added test case.  This is an error anyway, but it shouldn't cause a
501  crash.
502
503* Don't distribute unused toolbar icons.
504
505* Documentation: minor updates.
506
507Changes in 1.0.18:
508
509* (Unix version): Fixed "Process" action on .svx files.
510
511* (Unix version): File associations: if svxedit isn't installed, run gnome-edit
512  instead.
513
514* (Unix version): In Debian packages, now include file associations and file
515  icons in the survex package rather than survex-aven.
516
517* (Unix version): File associations were missing from RPM packages; moved
518  aven and svxedit man pages to their respective subpackages; moved aven icons
519  to the aven subpackage.
520
521* Documentation: added details of the 3d file format (version 3).
522
523* Updated TODO list.
524
525Changes in 1.0.17:
526
527* (MS Windows version): Fixed "Open in SvxEdit" to work (and if tcl isn't
528  install this action now falls back to using notepad).  SvxEdit now has
529  its own icon.
530
531* (Unix version): Install mime types, icons, and file associations for Gnome.
532  Note: at present GMC doesn't seem to notice new files being created (e.g.
533  Process on a .svx file creates .3d and .err files) - you have to manually
534  refresh the view.
535
536* Minor update to manual.
537
538Changes in 1.0.16:
539
540* (MS Windows version): Really fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
541  programs from finding the message files.
542
543* (MS Windows version): Remove any existing "Open" file association for .svx
544  files.
545
546Changes in 1.0.15:
547
548* (MS Windows version): Fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
549  programs from finding the message files.
550
551* (MS Windows version): "Open in Notepad" is now the double-click action
552  for .svx files once again, "Open in SvxEdit" is an action in the menu
553  obtained with the right mouse button.
554
555Changes in 1.0.14:
556
557* svxedit: This is a Survex data entry editor from the therion team.  It needs
558  tcl and wish installed - for MS Windows an installer is available for free
559  from Activeware.
560
561* Improved handling of Compass PLT files and CMAP xyz files - no longer change
562  dots to spaces in survey and station names - instead use a space as the
563  separator between survey name and station name.
564
565* aven: when picking non-overlapping labels, show a slight preference to shorter
566  labels with the aim of displaying more labels.
567
568* aven: fixed hard to notice problem which could cause the cave to appear
569  tilted sideways after a lot of manipulation.
570
571* cavern: Modest speed improvement (0.5% for sample dataset).
572
573* cavern: fixed a rarely sighted bug which caused erroneous error about some
574  stations not being attached to a fixed point.
575
576* cavern: fixed clino readings and DIRECTION to work in interleaved data.
577
578* cavern: improved error reporting when an invalid value is given for a
579  DIRECTION reading.
580
581* cavern: fixed "singular matrix" error when very low SDs were specified.
582
583* print*: if the --raw is used, the survey can now use the space this would
584  have taken up.
585
586* Reading of ASCII 3d files now copes with MSDOS/MS Windows line endings
587  once again.  Added regression test for this.
588
589* (MS Windows version): Programs run from the command line now find message
590  files without SURVEXHOME needing to be set.
591
592* Updated documentation.
593
594Changes in 1.0.13:
595
596* aven: Fixed bug which caused the occasional spurious leg to be shown
597  connecting arbitrary stations.
598
599* extend: try to extend along a survey, and make breaks where other surveys
600  join.
601
602* cavern: Number reading code reworked to allow repeat readings to be
603  supported, but the actual repeat reading code is currently disabled,
604  and everything should work exactly as before.
605
606* Experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - only a few messages are
607  currently translated.
608
609Changes in 1.0.12:
610
611* diffpos: fixed to work on 64bit architectures.
612
613* sorterr: fixed to work with more than 1024 traverses.
614
615* Fixed handling of iso-8859-2 character set and MS Windows code page 1250
616  (both cover Eastern European languages).
617
618* (MS Windows version): install file associations for Compass .plt and .plf
619  files and for CMAP .xyz files.  Also install the file icon for .plt and
620  .plf files in case Compass isn't installed (thanks to Larry Fish for
621  permission to include the icon).
622
623* (Unix version): running an installed program with an explicit path works
624  again.
625
626* (Unix version): xcaverot: automatically switch on PDA mode if the screen is
627  less than 640 pixels wide or less than 480 pixels high.
628
629* (Unix version): minor portability improvements.
630
631* Updates to Portuguese translation - all translations are now up-to-date.
632
633Changes in 1.0.11:
634
635* aven: improvements in 1.0.10 to the file type selector only work properly
636  on MS Windows, and with wxGtk >= 2.3 on Unix (the latest stable release is
637  2.2.9 where this doesn't work).  Fixed to work as well as possible on 2.2.9,
638  and as intended on 2.3.
639
640* aven: fixed so that loading PLT files works regardless of the current locale
641  (previously it would fail for locales where the decimal character wasn't
642  '.').
643
644* aven: key actions during autorotation no longer temporarily pause
645  autorotation.
646
647* aven: switching to plan or elevation while rotating is now smooth.
648
649* aven: removed undocumented and confusing "free rotation mode".
650
651* (MS Windows version): aven: focus now set correctly after loading a file by
652  double-clicking or from the command line.
653
654* cad3d: write dummy passage dimensions to .plt files to avoid Compass bug.
655
656* printwin/printps: now support coloured printouts.
657
658* print*: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
659
660* extend: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
661
662* Updates to Italian translation.
663
664* Minor documentation updates.
665
666Changes in 1.0.10:
667
668* (MS Windows version): aven: fixed assert failure upon turning on station
669  names.
670
671* aven: only add a file to the list of recently used files if it was opened
672  successfully.
673
674* aven: recognise ".plf" as a Compass PLT file too; and on Unix list "*.PLT",
675  "*.PLF", "*.XYZ", and "*.3D" as well as the lowercase versions to help people
676  who transfer files from MSDOS/MS Windows.
677
678* cavern: fixed bogus warning triggered by "*begin abc.def" (I'm not sure
679  that this should be valid, but the warning given wasn't appropriate).
680
681* Fixed scaling problem when reading PLT file (feet->metres conversion
682  factor was being applied backwards!)
683
684* Fixed potential problem when reading or writing a 3d file which couldn't
685  be opened.
686
687* Translate dots to spaces in survey names in Compass PLT files.
688
689* Better handling of PLT files which have a D command before any M command.
690
691* Updates to German and Italian translations.
692
693Changes in 1.0.9:
694
695* aven: Fixed jerky start when auto-rotation begins.
696
697* cavern: Fixed Direction reading - bug previously made it unusable.
698
699* (MS Windows version): cad3d: fixed broken PLT output (had a double CR at the
700  end of each line).
701
702* (Unix version): RPMs now have the docs in /usr/share/doc and the man pages
703  in /usr/share/man to conform with the FHS (and where RedHat packages put
704  them).
705
706* Updates to French, Spanish, Catalan, and Slovak translations.
707
708Changes in 1.0.8:
709
710* Slovak translation added; updated German, Catalan, and Spanish translations.
711
712* aven: reduced memory usage by around 25% and increased speed and
713  responsiveness.
714
715* aven: rate of rotation and switching between plan and elevation now adjusted
716  to the speed of redraw, so aven behaves in a similar way independent of the
717  speed of the computer or size of the survey.
718
719* aven: provide list of most recently loaded files (preserved between runs of
720  the program).
721
722* aven: settings for "Metric" and "Degrees" are preserved between runs.
723
724* aven: moved some menu items from "View" to "Controls" as they probably
725  belong there and the "View" menu was getting out of hand.
726
727* aven: cursor keys now translate cave in the same way the mouse does (i.e. now
728  work as in caverot and xcaverot).
729
730* aven: eliminated the "twinkling label" effect when dragging the cave with the
731  right mouse button.
732
733* aven: the measuring line moves much more smoothly now: the mouse cursor now
734  snaps to the nearest station, rather than just a near station; and when the
735  line moves, we now only redraw the affected area of the window.
736
737* aven: resolved annoying limit on zooming in on large surveys.  This was a
738  crude way of preventing random lines due to overflow in the windowing system.
739  Aven now clips lines itself at high zoom levels, and limits zoom in to
740  approximately 1mm/pixel.
741
742* aven: zoom in/out with keyboard wasn't subject to any limits - now restricted
743  to sane values as with zoom in/out with the mouse.
744
745* print*: added --raw switch to turn of info box, scale bar, and page footer.
746  This can be useful if you want to import the output into another application.
747
748* print*: improved output when --no-border is used.
749
750* printpcl/printdm: Added new .ini setting "font_bitmap" which allows the user
751  to choose between alternative fonts.  Current we supply "default" and "bold".
752
753* printps/printhpgl: Fixed --skip-blanks which would incorrectly skip non-blank
754  pages on rare occasions.
755
756* cavern: added support for BackCompass and BackClino.
757
758* cavern: implemented "*units clino percent".
759
760* cavern: added "*infer exports on".  Any stations seen while this is on will
761  have the necessary *export-s inferred when accessed from outside their
762  own survey.  This allows linking a survey which uses *export to one which
763  doesn't.  It's also useful for a maze cave where so many stations can
764  be linked to that listing them explicitly isn't desirable.
765
766* cavern: N-S, E-W, and vertical ranges now only count stations which are in
767  underground surveys.
768
769* cavern: *infer plumbs wasn't inferring -90 to be DOWN - fixed.
770
771* cavern: *infer was giving an internal error if the argument was unknown -
772  now it gives the correct error message.
773
774* cavern: fixed handling of omitted clino readings when OMIT is *set to be
775  different from MINUS and PLUS (new test omitclino).
776
777* cavern: fixed a bogus warning for any station which was only used in a line
778  of data which was rejected because of an error.
779
780* cavern: added error if the *units factor is zero (e.g. "*units tape 0 feet").
781
782* cavern: removed the ill-thought-out and never implemented LENGTHOUTPUT
783  and ANGLEOUTPUT quantities.
784
785* cavern: resolved mismatch between bcra5.svx and the default SDs, and the
786  odd values in bcra3.svx.  We are now interpreting the BCRA limits as 2
787  standard deviations (previously bcra5.svx used 3 sds, bcra3 used 3.33 sds for
788  tape and position, and .75 sds for compass and clino, and cavern used 1 sd
789  by default).
790
791* ChangeLog now only includes entries since the previous release (the full file
792  is 220K or so, and of interest to very few people).  MSDOS and MS Windows
793  versions now comfortably fit on a 1.44M floppy once again.
794
795* Test suite now checks that all programs will run successfully with "--help"
796  and with "--version".  This should avoid problems such as that which broke
797  the printer drivers in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
798
799* (Unix version): uninstalled binaries now use the path they are run with to
800  find support files, which means SURVEXHOME is no longer required, and has
801  been removed.
802
803Changes in 1.0.7:
804
805* print*: halted with a failed assertion in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
806
807Changes in 1.0.6:
808
809* aven: "Reverse Controls" now works as in xcaverot and caverot.
810
811* aven: free rotation mode (engage by pressing control while left dragging,
812  exit with Delete) improved.
813
814* aven: using File->Open when a file was already loaded caused a crash
815  if a station was "grey highlighted" in the survey tree - fixed.
816
817* aven: added hourglass for "find" operation.
818
819* aven: reenabled loading of files by drag-and-drop (accidentally disabled
820  in 1.0.4 and 1.0.5).
821
822* aven: improved handling of flat surveys (e.g. output of extend, surveys
823  with no clino information).
824
825* aven: surveys with stations but no legs no longer cause the labels and
826  crosses buttons to behave oddly.
827
828* aven: removed quite a bit of unused and superfluous code.
829
830* Spell-checked documentation.
831
832Changes in 1.0.5:
833
834* Fixed bug in img_open_survey() which could cause a crash if you tried to
835  open an unrecognised file (i.e. not .3d, .pos, .plt, or .xyz format).
836
837* North and East were the wrong way round when reading in .plt files.
838
839* cad3d: Improved .plt file output a little - there's probably enough file
840  structure for Compass to read them now.
841
842* Documentation updates.
843
844Changes in 1.0.4:
845
846* extend: previously only kept one name for an equated group of stations in the
847  extended .3d file; now keeps all the names.
848
849* cad3d: if an output filename is given, use its extension to pick the default
850  output format.
851
852* aven: movement with keyboard is now accelerated by Shift as in caverot.
853
854* print*: --no-borders fixed to work as documented; --no-cutlines added to
855  turn off the dashed lines where pages join on multi-page printouts.
856
857* aven: tracked down two uninitialised variables which seems to fix the
858  failure to load a survey on startup which some people have been experiencing
859  on Microsoft Windows.
860
861* aven: code cleaned up - should improve performance a little.
862
863* img routines: img_rewind() now returns a value indicating success/failure.
864
865* Improvements to .plt file reading, notably that distances in the file are
866  now interpreted as being in feet rather than metres.  Also .plt files should
867  now be recognised even with a different extension, and we cope with an odd
868  special case better.
869
870* Added support for reading CMAP XYZ files.  There are two variants of these
871  - the "shot" format is fully implemented, the "station" format currently
872  just reads the station names and positions - the legs are ignored (sadly
873  the sample files I have do not match the format specification).
874
875* (MacOS X version): aven: aven now builds on MacOS X - we just need to sort
876  out packaging now...
877
878* (MSDOS version): upgraded graphics library used to Allegro 4.0.1.
879
880* Documentation updates.
881
882Changes in 1.0.3:
883
884* aven: you can now select distances to be displayed in feet (or miles when
885  you zoom right out) instead of metres, and angles to be in grads instead
886  of degrees.
887
888* aven: show altitude of mouse pointer when in elevation view.
889
890* cad3d: fixed bug which caused --plt to crash on some platforms.
891
892* print*: added "Printing to `XXX'..." message to say where output is being
893  written.
894
895* Updated French translation; minor updates to other translations (mostly
896  sorting out clashing menu shortcuts in aven).
897
898* (Unix version): assorted portability tweaks.
899
900Changes in 1.0.2:
901
902* printdm/printpcl/printwin: take notice of font_size_labels setting in
903  print.ini etc.
904
905* cavern: Topofil can now be used with DIVING and CYLPOLAR styles; TOPOFIL
906  style is now synonymous with NORMAL.
907
908* cavern: *INFER EQUATES and *DATA TOPOFIL now work together correctly.
909
910* cavern: *FIX with 3 standard deviations but no covariances now works.
911
912* (MacOS X version): command line programs now build.  We're working on Aven.
913
914* Updates to the Catalan and Spanish translations.
915
916* xcaverot: documented environmental variables XCAVEROT_INDICATOR_RADIUS and
917  XCAVEROT_FONTNAME.
918
919* cad3d: added --plt option to produce crude approximation to Compass .plt
920  files - should be good enough for reading into Carto.
921
922* img library enhanced to allow Compass .plt files to be read as if they were
923  .3d files.
924
925Changes in 1.0.1:
926
927* (MS Windows version): printwin: fixed sizes of cross and page alignment
928  ticks.
929
930* Updates to the Portuguese and Italian translations.
931
932Changes in 1.0.0:
933
934* Fixed --survey option supported by many programs which was broken in 0.99.
935
936* aven: altered colours of "fixed points" and "entrances" buttons to match
937  the coloured blobs used to indicate them.
938
939* (MS Windows version): aven: changed current point highlighting in the
940  survey tree to use a light grey background rather than bold (bold causes
941  the text to "wriggle" as the highlight runs up or down).
942
943* (MS Windows version): file icons now have transparent backgrounds.
944
945* survex: removed conversion wrapper - you should use "cavern file.svx"
946  instead of "survex file.svx".
947
948* (Unix version): GCC 2.95 sometimes fails with an internal error when trying
949  to compile gfxcore.cc - if it does, the Makefile will now try recompiling
950  with a lower optimisation level.
951
952* (Unix version): when doing an "in directory" build from source, the HTML
953  manual is now installed in its own subdirectory as when doing a non
954  "in directory" build.
955
956* German translation now completely up-to-date.
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