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extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
several surveys in the same directory).

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1* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands with feature
2  test.  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now becomes a date
3  range for the relevant period (previously it became a single date near
4  the middle of that period).
5
6* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
7  with MS Windows).
8
9* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
10  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
11  several surveys in the same directory).
12
13* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
14  moved off a station.
15
16* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
17  same directory.
18
19* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
20
21* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
22  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
23
24* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
25  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
26  dialogs.
27
28* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
29  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
30
31* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
32  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
33  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
34
35* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
36  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
37
38* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
39
40Changes in 1.1.6:
41
42* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
43  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
44
45* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
46  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
47  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
48  3d file.
49
50* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
51
52* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
53
54* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
55  Instead turn off depth colouring.
56
57* aven: Export as HPGL added.
58
59* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
60  Martin Green).
61
62* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
63  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
64  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
65
66* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
67
68* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
69  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
70
71* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
72  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
73  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
74  of everything else.
75
76* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
77  presentation icons.
78
79* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
80  keyboard focus there.
81
82* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
83
84* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
85
86* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
87
88* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
89
90* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
91  language to use for messages.
92
93* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
94  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
95
96* Removed old printer drivers.
97
98* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
99  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
100
101Changes in 1.1.5:
102
103* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
104
105* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
106
107* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
108  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
109
110* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
111  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
112 
113* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
114
115* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
116  underground legs is toggled.
117
118* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
119  attached to the previous data.
120
121* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
122  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
123  them.
124
125Changes in 1.1.4:
126
127* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
128
129* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
130  continental European countries).
131
132* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
133  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
134  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
135
136* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
137
138* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
139  they're needed.
140
141* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
142
143* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
144
145* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
146
147* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
148  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
149  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
150
151* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
152
153Changes in 1.1.3:
154
155* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
156
157* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
158
159* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
160
161* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
162
163* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
164
165* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
166
167* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
168  when there's a presentation loaded.
169
170* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
171  in cave view.
172
173* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
174
175* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
176  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
177  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
178
179* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
180  filename for file history and window title.
181
182* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
183  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
184  only needed with GTK1.2.
185
186* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
187
188* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
189
190* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
191
192* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
193
194Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
195
196* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
197  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
198  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
199
200* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
201  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
202
203* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
204  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
205  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
206  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
207
208* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
209
210* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
211  with --help and --version.
212
213* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
214  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
215  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
216  Fixed all these problems.
217
218* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
219  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
220  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
221
222* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
223  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
224  sources.
225
226* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
227
228* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
229
230* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
231  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
232
233* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
234  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
235  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
236  animating.
237
238* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
239
240* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
241
242* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
243  to this branch.
244
245* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
246
247  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
248
249  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
250
251  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
252
253* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
254
255* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
256  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
257
258* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
259
260* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
261  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
262
263* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
264
265* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
266  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
267  for anyone building from CVS).
268
269* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
270
271* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
272
273* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
274
275* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
276
277* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
278  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
279  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
280
281* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
282  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
283
284* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
285
286* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
287  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
288  loaded).
289
290* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
291
292Changes in 1.1.1:
293
294* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
295  startup.
296
297* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
298  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
299
300Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0:
301
302* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
303  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
304  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
305
306* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
307  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
308  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
309
310* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
311  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
312  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
313
314* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
315
316* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
317  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
318
319* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
320  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
321
322* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
323  better use of screen space.
324
325* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
326
327* aven: Perspective view.
328
329* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
330
331* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
332  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
333
334* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
335  and load/save/run them.
336
337* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
338
339* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
340
341* aven: Depth fogging option.
342
343* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
344
345* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
346
347* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
348  showing the surface legs.
349
350* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
351
352Changes in 1.0.32:
353
354* aven: Fixed font sizes in "Print Preview" and printouts.
355
356* aven: In the print setup dialog, replaced "Orientation" radio buttons with
357  "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons.
358
359* aven: Fixed info box on printouts of elevations, tilted views, and
360  extend elevations.
361
362* aven: Added "fit on one page" option, and make it the default.
363
364* aven: Reorder "Cancel", "Preview", "Print" buttons and make "Print" the
365  default button.
366
367* aven: Read settings back from the print dialog when the "Print" button is
368  pressed (was only done for "Preview" previously).
369
370* aven: Sorted out the initial size of the "Print Preview" window.
371
372* aven: Fixed the window manager's close button on the "Print Preview" window
373  - previously this was being ignored.
374
375* aven: Sorted out initial survey scaling when loading a survey at startup.
376
377* aven: Fixed the measuring line to work better when the survey tree is
378  manipulated with keys.  Tweaked redrawing of the measuring line to be a
379  smidgen more efficient.  Fixed the blob and ring size which were one
380  pixel too small on Windows.
381
382* aven: Added "System Information:" section to the "About" dialog to hold
383  information useful when reporting bugs.  Currently it contains the wxWindows
384  version, OS version, and colour depth information.
385
386* aven: Changed the "About" dialog's "Close" button to be "OK" for consistency
387  with pretty much every other application.
388
389* aven: Added "File->Export as..." which integrates cad3d's functionality
390  within aven.
391
392* aven: Updated a few icons.
393
394* cad3d: Added SVG export support from John Pybus
395
396* (Unix version): Fixed to allow compilation with GCC 3.4
397
398* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to using innosetup 4 for the installer
399  (we were using innosetup 2).  This results in a much smaller download
400  and the installer now translates itself into the currently set language.
401  The installer will no longer work on Windows NT 3.51, but I seriously
402  doubt anyone is still using that...
403
404* Updates to German translation.
405
406Changes in 1.0.31:
407
408* (MS Windows version): Fixed problems with the new printing code by building
409  with a newer version of wxWindows (2.5.2 instead of 2.4.1).
410
411* aven: Fixed grid menu item so that it always correctly reflects whether the
412  grid is enabled or not.
413
414* aven: Minor improvements to appearance of a few toolbar icons.
415
416* Updates to Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, Slovak, and Spanish
417  translations.
418
419* cavern: Fixed Romanian message which was appearing in English .err files.
420
421Changes in 1.0.30:
422
423* aven: Added printing directly from Aven!
424
425* aven: Fixed memory leak when showing the "About" dialog.
426
427* (MacOS X version): Now installable from a disk image package.
428
429* cavern: Equates are no longer considered when deciding which stations are
430  flagged as surface and underground.
431
432* Romanian translation mostly completed.
433
434* (Unix version): Debian: Minor packaging tweaks.
435
436Changes in 1.0.29:
437
438* cad3d: Fixed problem with DXF files which stopped them loading with some
439  drawing packages (introduced in 1.0.27).
440
441* aven: Changed File->Exit to File->Quit.
442
443* Removed some unused messages from the message files.
444
445* (Unix version): Fixed SRPMs to build on RedHat 9 and Fedora Core 1 (patch
446  from John Pybus).
447
448* Romanian translation started.
449
450* (Unix version): Debian: Fixed new lintian warnings about missing quotes in
451  menu files.
452
453Changes in 1.0.28:
454
455* Fixed 3d file reading code to fix incorrect unpacking of compressed station
456  names in a rare case.  Also checked other rare cases work correctly.
457
458Changes in 1.0.27:
459
460* cad3d: DXF output now puts surface legs, stations, and labels in separate
461  layers.
462
463* (Unix version): distribute desc-svxedit.txt.
464
465Changes in 1.0.26:
466
467* cavern: Fixed interleaved topofil data style - the length was always being
468  calculated as zero.
469
470* (Unix version): aven: "All Files" now shows files without extensions too.
471
472* aven: added Ctrl+Q as shortcut for File->Exit.
473
474* aven: depth colouring now uses a proper colour gradient.
475
476* (MacOS X version): aven: the keyboard and mouse now work!  It turns out that
477  we must apply resources *after* installing.
478
479* (MacOS X version): aven: now works when run from the MacOS X Finder.
480
481* (MacOS X version): look for message files and other resources relative to the
482  binaries so that the user can install Survex from a disk image in the location
483  of their choice.
484
485* (MacOS X version): fixed not to try to build aven if wxWindows isn't
486  installed.
487
488* cad3d: fixed -e and -r options to not crash (the long versions have always
489  worked).
490
491* extend: fixed to initialise an internal structure - failing to do so was
492  probably causing crashes on some platforms.
493
494* Fixed standard graphics for "Note", "Warning", etc in the PostScript manual.
495
496* Documentation updated.
497
498* (Unix version): fixed svxedit man page which previously contained xcaverot
499  documentation!
500
501* test suite: check that cavern doesn't report "nan" or "NaN" for any values.
502
503* (Unix version): fixed configure --enable-defaultlang=XX to work.
504
505* (Unix version): fixed configure code to turn on lots of GCC warnings and fixed
506  most of them.
507
508* (MS Windows version): assorted tweaks to allow building with MS Visual C/C++.
509
510Changes in 1.0.25:
511
512* (MacOS X version): hopefully fixed building of aven.
513
514* (Unix version): updated config.guess and config.sub so should build out of
515  the box on more Unix platforms.
516
517* (Unix version): Debian: added missing Build-Depends on xlibs-dev.
518
519* (Unix version): RPMs: give up supplying binary RPMs due to apparently
520  insurmountable technical problems.
521
522Changes in 1.0.24:
523
524* cavern: fixed LEVEL (broken since around 1.0.8) and added test case.
525
526* cavern: corrected handling of declination in Compass DAT files and added test
527  case; also added tests for other aspects of Compass DAT file reading.
528
529* printps/printpcl: fixed blank page detection in some obscure cases.
530
531* Documentation: started manual section on working with Compass data files.
532
533* (Unix version): fixed compilation problems with aven and getopt.h on MacOS X
534  (and probably some other Unix versions).
535
536* (Unix version): Debian package now Build-Depends on gcc-3.2 and g++-3.2.
537
538Changes in 1.0.23:
539
540* Documentation: include 3d v3 file format description on MS Windows, MS DOS,
541  and RISC OS too; include PNG graphics for manual on MS Windows; minor updates
542  to manual.
543
544* Prefer wxWindows 2.4 if it's available.
545
546* (MacOS X version): detect MacOS X and look for MacOS X build of wxWindows;
547  automatically add resource fork to aven binary.
548
549* Disabled experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - it isn't currently
550  working and makes the printer drivers unusable on Chinese versions of MS
551  Windows.
552
553* (Unix version): tweaked debian packaging.
554
555* cavern: Handling of "*:" at start of file wasn't fully fixed in 1.0.19.
556
557Changes in 1.0.22:
558
559* aven: Fixed handling of extended elevations (and other flat surveys) -
560  they are meant to be "locked flat" but this wasn't fully working before.
561
562* Documentation: 3d v3 file format description: fixed error in description of
563  codes 0x01-0x0e; include it in binary packages (not only with the source
564  code).
565
566Changes in 1.0.21:
567
568* cavern: when reading Compass DAT files, we now processes compass and clino
569  backsights, and recognise the "X" flag which indicates a leg should be
570  entirely ignored.  And we now report correct line number with errors in
571  Compass .MAK files.
572
573* cavern: if "*infer plumbs on", don't infer a plumb if the clino is
574  +/- 90 degrees, but the backclino isn't (and vice versa).
575
576* cavern: fixed 3dx output so it actually works with Chasm once more.
577
578* cavern: don't allocate extra space needed for producing 3dx output for
579  Chasm unless we're actually producing that output - saves about 8 bytes
580  per station.
581
582* cavern: removed slightly too keen sanity check which could misfire in very
583  unusual circumstances.
584
585* (MS Windows version): all .ico files except 3d.ico have been missing since
586  1.0.17 (or maybe 1.0.16) - fixed.  You wouldn't notice this if you installed
587  over an previous version.
588
589Changes in 1.0.20:
590
591* aven: update display when "Metric" or "Degrees" is toggled.
592
593* cavern: fixed handling of compass and clino corrections in Compass survey
594  data - these were interpreted as radians rather than degrees so the
595  correction was about 57 times too large!)
596
597* Improved handling of Compass PLT files - if the survey name is empty, don't
598  insert a survey separator character.
599
600* Documentation: fixed incorrect markup which resulted in a bogus footnote.
601
602Changes in 1.0.19:
603
604* cavern: you can now process Compass format survey data (.DAT and .MAK files) -
605  these can even be linked into a Survex dataset with "*include fulford.dat" or
606  "*include lech.mak" to allow processing of mixed datasets.
607
608* cavern: major speedup (up to 60%) when reading in survey data containing
609  a lot of stations in the same survey hierarchy level (which is how Compass
610  files are handled).
611
612* cavern: don't warn about a compass reading on a plumbed leg if the
613  plumb was inferred and the compass reading is zero.
614
615* cavern: reduced memory usage in code which reads a survey station name.
616
617* cavern: reported CPU time would go negative if cavern ran for more than
618  about 36 minutes (highly unlikely but not impossible on a slow machine
619  with a large, highly interconnect survey) - fixed.
620
621* cavern: avoid unnecessary work when --percentage isn't specified.
622
623* cavern: Writing "*:" at the start of a .svx file would crash cavern - fixed
624  and added test case.  This is an error anyway, but it shouldn't cause a
625  crash.
626
627* Don't distribute unused toolbar icons.
628
629* Documentation: minor updates.
630
631Changes in 1.0.18:
632
633* (Unix version): Fixed "Process" action on .svx files.
634
635* (Unix version): File associations: if svxedit isn't installed, run gnome-edit
636  instead.
637
638* (Unix version): In Debian packages, now include file associations and file
639  icons in the survex package rather than survex-aven.
640
641* (Unix version): File associations were missing from RPM packages; moved
642  aven and svxedit man pages to their respective subpackages; moved aven icons
643  to the aven subpackage.
644
645* Documentation: added details of the 3d file format (version 3).
646
647* Updated TODO list.
648
649Changes in 1.0.17:
650
651* (MS Windows version): Fixed "Open in SvxEdit" to work (and if tcl isn't
652  install this action now falls back to using notepad).  SvxEdit now has
653  its own icon.
654
655* (Unix version): Install mime types, icons, and file associations for Gnome.
656  Note: at present GMC doesn't seem to notice new files being created (e.g.
657  Process on a .svx file creates .3d and .err files) - you have to manually
658  refresh the view.
659
660* Minor update to manual.
661
662Changes in 1.0.16:
663
664* (MS Windows version): Really fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
665  programs from finding the message files.
666
667* (MS Windows version): Remove any existing "Open" file association for .svx
668  files.
669
670Changes in 1.0.15:
671
672* (MS Windows version): Fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
673  programs from finding the message files.
674
675* (MS Windows version): "Open in Notepad" is now the double-click action
676  for .svx files once again, "Open in SvxEdit" is an action in the menu
677  obtained with the right mouse button.
678
679Changes in 1.0.14:
680
681* svxedit: This is a Survex data entry editor from the therion team.  It needs
682  tcl and wish installed - for MS Windows an installer is available for free
683  from Activeware.
684
685* Improved handling of Compass PLT files and CMAP xyz files - no longer change
686  dots to spaces in survey and station names - instead use a space as the
687  separator between survey name and station name.
688
689* aven: when picking non-overlapping labels, show a slight preference to shorter
690  labels with the aim of displaying more labels.
691
692* aven: fixed hard to notice problem which could cause the cave to appear
693  tilted sideways after a lot of manipulation.
694
695* cavern: Modest speed improvement (0.5% for sample dataset).
696
697* cavern: fixed a rarely sighted bug which caused erroneous error about some
698  stations not being attached to a fixed point.
699
700* cavern: fixed clino readings and DIRECTION to work in interleaved data.
701
702* cavern: improved error reporting when an invalid value is given for a
703  DIRECTION reading.
704
705* cavern: fixed "singular matrix" error when very low SDs were specified.
706
707* print*: if the --raw is used, the survey can now use the space this would
708  have taken up.
709
710* Reading of ASCII 3d files now copes with MSDOS/MS Windows line endings
711  once again.  Added regression test for this.
712
713* (MS Windows version): Programs run from the command line now find message
714  files without SURVEXHOME needing to be set.
715
716* Updated documentation.
717
718Changes in 1.0.13:
719
720* aven: Fixed bug which caused the occasional spurious leg to be shown
721  connecting arbitrary stations.
722
723* extend: try to extend along a survey, and make breaks where other surveys
724  join.
725
726* cavern: Number reading code reworked to allow repeat readings to be
727  supported, but the actual repeat reading code is currently disabled,
728  and everything should work exactly as before.
729
730* Experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - only a few messages are
731  currently translated.
732
733Changes in 1.0.12:
734
735* diffpos: fixed to work on 64bit architectures.
736
737* sorterr: fixed to work with more than 1024 traverses.
738
739* Fixed handling of iso-8859-2 character set and MS Windows code page 1250
740  (both cover Eastern European languages).
741
742* (MS Windows version): install file associations for Compass .plt and .plf
743  files and for CMAP .xyz files.  Also install the file icon for .plt and
744  .plf files in case Compass isn't installed (thanks to Larry Fish for
745  permission to include the icon).
746
747* (Unix version): running an installed program with an explicit path works
748  again.
749
750* (Unix version): xcaverot: automatically switch on PDA mode if the screen is
751  less than 640 pixels wide or less than 480 pixels high.
752
753* (Unix version): minor portability improvements.
754
755* Updates to Portuguese translation - all translations are now up-to-date.
756
757Changes in 1.0.11:
758
759* aven: improvements in 1.0.10 to the file type selector only work properly
760  on MS Windows, and with wxGtk >= 2.3 on Unix (the latest stable release is
761  2.2.9 where this doesn't work).  Fixed to work as well as possible on 2.2.9,
762  and as intended on 2.3.
763
764* aven: fixed so that loading PLT files works regardless of the current locale
765  (previously it would fail for locales where the decimal character wasn't
766  '.').
767
768* aven: key actions during autorotation no longer temporarily pause
769  autorotation.
770
771* aven: switching to plan or elevation while rotating is now smooth.
772
773* aven: removed undocumented and confusing "free rotation mode".
774
775* (MS Windows version): aven: focus now set correctly after loading a file by
776  double-clicking or from the command line.
777
778* cad3d: write dummy passage dimensions to .plt files to avoid Compass bug.
779
780* printwin/printps: now support coloured printouts.
781
782* print*: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
783
784* extend: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
785
786* Updates to Italian translation.
787
788* Minor documentation updates.
789
790Changes in 1.0.10:
791
792* (MS Windows version): aven: fixed assert failure upon turning on station
793  names.
794
795* aven: only add a file to the list of recently used files if it was opened
796  successfully.
797
798* aven: recognise ".plf" as a Compass PLT file too; and on Unix list "*.PLT",
799  "*.PLF", "*.XYZ", and "*.3D" as well as the lowercase versions to help people
800  who transfer files from MSDOS/MS Windows.
801
802* cavern: fixed bogus warning triggered by "*begin abc.def" (I'm not sure
803  that this should be valid, but the warning given wasn't appropriate).
804
805* Fixed scaling problem when reading PLT file (feet->metres conversion
806  factor was being applied backwards!)
807
808* Fixed potential problem when reading or writing a 3d file which couldn't
809  be opened.
810
811* Translate dots to spaces in survey names in Compass PLT files.
812
813* Better handling of PLT files which have a D command before any M command.
814
815* Updates to German and Italian translations.
816
817Changes in 1.0.9:
818
819* aven: Fixed jerky start when auto-rotation begins.
820
821* cavern: Fixed Direction reading - bug previously made it unusable.
822
823* (MS Windows version): cad3d: fixed broken PLT output (had a double CR at the
824  end of each line).
825
826* (Unix version): RPMs now have the docs in /usr/share/doc and the man pages
827  in /usr/share/man to conform with the FHS (and where RedHat packages put
828  them).
829
830* Updates to French, Spanish, Catalan, and Slovak translations.
831
832Changes in 1.0.8:
833
834* Slovak translation added; updated German, Catalan, and Spanish translations.
835
836* aven: reduced memory usage by around 25% and increased speed and
837  responsiveness.
838
839* aven: rate of rotation and switching between plan and elevation now adjusted
840  to the speed of redraw, so aven behaves in a similar way independent of the
841  speed of the computer or size of the survey.
842
843* aven: provide list of most recently loaded files (preserved between runs of
844  the program).
845
846* aven: settings for "Metric" and "Degrees" are preserved between runs.
847
848* aven: moved some menu items from "View" to "Controls" as they probably
849  belong there and the "View" menu was getting out of hand.
850
851* aven: cursor keys now translate cave in the same way the mouse does (i.e. now
852  work as in caverot and xcaverot).
853
854* aven: eliminated the "twinkling label" effect when dragging the cave with the
855  right mouse button.
856
857* aven: the measuring line moves much more smoothly now: the mouse cursor now
858  snaps to the nearest station, rather than just a near station; and when the
859  line moves, we now only redraw the affected area of the window.
860
861* aven: resolved annoying limit on zooming in on large surveys.  This was a
862  crude way of preventing random lines due to overflow in the windowing system.
863  Aven now clips lines itself at high zoom levels, and limits zoom in to
864  approximately 1mm/pixel.
865
866* aven: zoom in/out with keyboard wasn't subject to any limits - now restricted
867  to sane values as with zoom in/out with the mouse.
868
869* print*: added --raw switch to turn of info box, scale bar, and page footer.
870  This can be useful if you want to import the output into another application.
871
872* print*: improved output when --no-border is used.
873
874* printpcl/printdm: Added new .ini setting "font_bitmap" which allows the user
875  to choose between alternative fonts.  Current we supply "default" and "bold".
876
877* printps/printhpgl: Fixed --skip-blanks which would incorrectly skip non-blank
878  pages on rare occasions.
879
880* cavern: added support for BackCompass and BackClino.
881
882* cavern: implemented "*units clino percent".
883
884* cavern: added "*infer exports on".  Any stations seen while this is on will
885  have the necessary *export-s inferred when accessed from outside their
886  own survey.  This allows linking a survey which uses *export to one which
887  doesn't.  It's also useful for a maze cave where so many stations can
888  be linked to that listing them explicitly isn't desirable.
889
890* cavern: N-S, E-W, and vertical ranges now only count stations which are in
891  underground surveys.
892
893* cavern: *infer plumbs wasn't inferring -90 to be DOWN - fixed.
894
895* cavern: *infer was giving an internal error if the argument was unknown -
896  now it gives the correct error message.
897
898* cavern: fixed handling of omitted clino readings when OMIT is *set to be
899  different from MINUS and PLUS (new test omitclino).
900
901* cavern: fixed a bogus warning for any station which was only used in a line
902  of data which was rejected because of an error.
903
904* cavern: added error if the *units factor is zero (e.g. "*units tape 0 feet").
905
906* cavern: removed the ill-thought-out and never implemented LENGTHOUTPUT
907  and ANGLEOUTPUT quantities.
908
909* cavern: resolved mismatch between bcra5.svx and the default SDs, and the
910  odd values in bcra3.svx.  We are now interpreting the BCRA limits as 2
911  standard deviations (previously bcra5.svx used 3 sds, bcra3 used 3.33 sds for
912  tape and position, and .75 sds for compass and clino, and cavern used 1 sd
913  by default).
914
915* ChangeLog now only includes entries since the previous release (the full file
916  is 220K or so, and of interest to very few people).  MSDOS and MS Windows
917  versions now comfortably fit on a 1.44M floppy once again.
918
919* Test suite now checks that all programs will run successfully with "--help"
920  and with "--version".  This should avoid problems such as that which broke
921  the printer drivers in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
922
923* (Unix version): uninstalled binaries now use the path they are run with to
924  find support files, which means SURVEXHOME is no longer required, and has
925  been removed.
926
927Changes in 1.0.7:
928
929* print*: halted with a failed assertion in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
930
931Changes in 1.0.6:
932
933* aven: "Reverse Controls" now works as in xcaverot and caverot.
934
935* aven: free rotation mode (engage by pressing control while left dragging,
936  exit with Delete) improved.
937
938* aven: using File->Open when a file was already loaded caused a crash
939  if a station was "grey highlighted" in the survey tree - fixed.
940
941* aven: added hourglass for "find" operation.
942
943* aven: reenabled loading of files by drag-and-drop (accidentally disabled
944  in 1.0.4 and 1.0.5).
945
946* aven: improved handling of flat surveys (e.g. output of extend, surveys
947  with no clino information).
948
949* aven: surveys with stations but no legs no longer cause the labels and
950  crosses buttons to behave oddly.
951
952* aven: removed quite a bit of unused and superfluous code.
953
954* Spell-checked documentation.
955
956Changes in 1.0.5:
957
958* Fixed bug in img_open_survey() which could cause a crash if you tried to
959  open an unrecognised file (i.e. not .3d, .pos, .plt, or .xyz format).
960
961* North and East were the wrong way round when reading in .plt files.
962
963* cad3d: Improved .plt file output a little - there's probably enough file
964  structure for Compass to read them now.
965
966* Documentation updates.
967
968Changes in 1.0.4:
969
970* extend: previously only kept one name for an equated group of stations in the
971  extended .3d file; now keeps all the names.
972
973* cad3d: if an output filename is given, use its extension to pick the default
974  output format.
975
976* aven: movement with keyboard is now accelerated by Shift as in caverot.
977
978* print*: --no-borders fixed to work as documented; --no-cutlines added to
979  turn off the dashed lines where pages join on multi-page printouts.
980
981* aven: tracked down two uninitialised variables which seems to fix the
982  failure to load a survey on startup which some people have been experiencing
983  on Microsoft Windows.
984
985* aven: code cleaned up - should improve performance a little.
986
987* img routines: img_rewind() now returns a value indicating success/failure.
988
989* Improvements to .plt file reading, notably that distances in the file are
990  now interpreted as being in feet rather than metres.  Also .plt files should
991  now be recognised even with a different extension, and we cope with an odd
992  special case better.
993
994* Added support for reading CMAP XYZ files.  There are two variants of these
995  - the "shot" format is fully implemented, the "station" format currently
996  just reads the station names and positions - the legs are ignored (sadly
997  the sample files I have do not match the format specification).
998
999* (MacOS X version): aven: aven now builds on MacOS X - we just need to sort
1000  out packaging now...
1001
1002* (MSDOS version): upgraded graphics library used to Allegro 4.0.1.
1003
1004* Documentation updates.
1005
1006Changes in 1.0.3:
1007
1008* aven: you can now select distances to be displayed in feet (or miles when
1009  you zoom right out) instead of metres, and angles to be in grads instead
1010  of degrees.
1011
1012* aven: show altitude of mouse pointer when in elevation view.
1013
1014* cad3d: fixed bug which caused --plt to crash on some platforms.
1015
1016* print*: added "Printing to `XXX'..." message to say where output is being
1017  written.
1018
1019* Updated French translation; minor updates to other translations (mostly
1020  sorting out clashing menu shortcuts in aven).
1021
1022* (Unix version): assorted portability tweaks.
1023
1024Changes in 1.0.2:
1025
1026* printdm/printpcl/printwin: take notice of font_size_labels setting in
1027  print.ini etc.
1028
1029* cavern: Topofil can now be used with DIVING and CYLPOLAR styles; TOPOFIL
1030  style is now synonymous with NORMAL.
1031
1032* cavern: *INFER EQUATES and *DATA TOPOFIL now work together correctly.
1033
1034* cavern: *FIX with 3 standard deviations but no covariances now works.
1035
1036* (MacOS X version): command line programs now build.  We're working on Aven.
1037
1038* Updates to the Catalan and Spanish translations.
1039
1040* xcaverot: documented environmental variables XCAVEROT_INDICATOR_RADIUS and
1041  XCAVEROT_FONTNAME.
1042
1043* cad3d: added --plt option to produce crude approximation to Compass .plt
1044  files - should be good enough for reading into Carto.
1045
1046* img library enhanced to allow Compass .plt files to be read as if they were
1047  .3d files.
1048
1049Changes in 1.0.1:
1050
1051* (MS Windows version): printwin: fixed sizes of cross and page alignment
1052  ticks.
1053
1054* Updates to the Portuguese and Italian translations.
1055
1056Changes in 1.0.0:
1057
1058* Fixed --survey option supported by many programs which was broken in 0.99.
1059
1060* aven: altered colours of "fixed points" and "entrances" buttons to match
1061  the coloured blobs used to indicate them.
1062
1063* (MS Windows version): aven: changed current point highlighting in the
1064  survey tree to use a light grey background rather than bold (bold causes
1065  the text to "wriggle" as the highlight runs up or down).
1066
1067* (MS Windows version): file icons now have transparent backgrounds.
1068
1069* survex: removed conversion wrapper - you should use "cavern file.svx"
1070  instead of "survex file.svx".
1071
1072* (Unix version): GCC 2.95 sometimes fails with an internal error when trying
1073  to compile gfxcore.cc - if it does, the Makefile will now try recompiling
1074  with a lower optimisation level.
1075
1076* (Unix version): when doing an "in directory" build from source, the HTML
1077  manual is now installed in its own subdirectory as when doing a non
1078  "in directory" build.
1079
1080* German translation now completely up-to-date.
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