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1* (Unix version): Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
2  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
3
4Changes in 1.1.8:
5
6* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
7  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
8
9* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
10  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
11  has been disabled.
12
13* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
14  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
15  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
16  time.
17
18* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
19  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
20  highlighted stations.
21
22* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
23
24* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
25  the tilt from plan to elevation.
26
27* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
28  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
29
30* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
31  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
32  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
33
34* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
35  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
36
37* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
38
39* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
40
41* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
42
43* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
44  run by an unprivileged user.
45
46* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
47  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
48  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
49
50* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
51  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
52
53* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
54
55* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
56  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
57
58* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
59  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
60
61* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
62  if it isn't.
63
64* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
65  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
66
67* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
68  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
69
70* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
71  reset to default view as well).
72
73* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
74  empty.
75
76* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
77  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
78
79* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
80  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
81  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
82
83* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
84  and non-zero width lines.
85
86* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
87  was turned on.
88
89* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
90  not always being fully written.
91
92Changes in 1.1.7:
93
94* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
95  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
96  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
97  date near the middle of that period).
98
99* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
100  with MS Windows).
101
102* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
103  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
104  several surveys in the same directory).
105
106* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
107  our for them to include that knowledge.
108
109* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
110
111* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
112  moved off a station.
113
114* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
115  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
116
117* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
118
119* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
120  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
121
122* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
123  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
124  dialogs.
125
126* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
127  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
128
129* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
130  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
131  introduced in 1.1.6).
132
133* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
134  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
135  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
136
137* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
138  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
139
140* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
141
142* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
143
144Changes in 1.1.6:
145
146* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
147  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
148
149* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
150  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
151  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
152  3d file.
153
154* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
155
156* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
157
158* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
159  Instead turn off depth colouring.
160
161* aven: Export as HPGL added.
162
163* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
164  Martin Green).
165
166* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
167  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
168  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
169
170* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
171
172* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
173  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
174
175* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
176  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
177  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
178  of everything else.
179
180* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
181  presentation icons.
182
183* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
184  keyboard focus there.
185
186* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
187
188* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
189
190* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
191
192* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
193
194* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
195  language to use for messages.
196
197* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
198  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
199
200* Removed old printer drivers.
201
202* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
203  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
204
205Changes in 1.1.5:
206
207* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
208
209* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
210
211* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
212  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
213
214* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
215  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
216 
217* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
218
219* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
220  underground legs is toggled.
221
222* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
223  attached to the previous data.
224
225* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
226  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
227  them.
228
229Changes in 1.1.4:
230
231* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
232
233* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
234  continental European countries).
235
236* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
237  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
238  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
239
240* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
241
242* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
243  they're needed.
244
245* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
246
247* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
248
249* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
250
251* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
252  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
253  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
254
255* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
256
257Changes in 1.1.3:
258
259* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
260
261* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
262
263* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
264
265* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
266
267* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
268
269* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
270
271* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
272  when there's a presentation loaded.
273
274* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
275  in cave view.
276
277* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
278
279* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
280  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
281  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
282
283* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
284  filename for file history and window title.
285
286* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
287  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
288  only needed with GTK1.2.
289
290* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
291
292* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
293
294* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
295
296* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
297
298Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
299
300* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
301  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
302  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
303
304* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
305  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
306
307* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
308  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
309  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
310  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
311
312* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
313
314* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
315  with --help and --version.
316
317* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
318  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
319  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
320  Fixed all these problems.
321
322* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
323  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
324  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
325
326* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
327  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
328  sources.
329
330* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
331
332* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
333
334* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
335  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
336
337* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
338  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
339  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
340  animating.
341
342* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
343
344* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
345
346* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
347  to this branch.
348
349* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
350
351  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
352
353  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
354
355  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
356
357* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
358
359* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
360  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
361
362* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
363
364* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
365  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
366
367* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
368
369* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
370  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
371  for anyone building from CVS).
372
373* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
374
375* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
376
377* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
378
379* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
380
381* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
382  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
383  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
384
385* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
386  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
387
388* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
389
390* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
391  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
392  loaded).
393
394* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
395
396Changes in 1.1.1:
397
398* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
399  startup.
400
401* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
402  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
403
404Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0:
405
406* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
407  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
408  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
409
410* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
411  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
412  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
413
414* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
415  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
416  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
417
418* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
419
420* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
421  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
422
423* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
424  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
425
426* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
427  better use of screen space.
428
429* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
430
431* aven: Perspective view.
432
433* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
434
435* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
436  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
437
438* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
439  and load/save/run them.
440
441* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
442
443* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
444
445* aven: Depth fogging option.
446
447* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
448
449* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
450
451* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
452  showing the surface legs.
453
454* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
455
456Changes in 1.0.32:
457
458* aven: Fixed font sizes in "Print Preview" and printouts.
459
460* aven: In the print setup dialog, replaced "Orientation" radio buttons with
461  "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons.
462
463* aven: Fixed info box on printouts of elevations, tilted views, and
464  extend elevations.
465
466* aven: Added "fit on one page" option, and make it the default.
467
468* aven: Reorder "Cancel", "Preview", "Print" buttons and make "Print" the
469  default button.
470
471* aven: Read settings back from the print dialog when the "Print" button is
472  pressed (was only done for "Preview" previously).
473
474* aven: Sorted out the initial size of the "Print Preview" window.
475
476* aven: Fixed the window manager's close button on the "Print Preview" window
477  - previously this was being ignored.
478
479* aven: Sorted out initial survey scaling when loading a survey at startup.
480
481* aven: Fixed the measuring line to work better when the survey tree is
482  manipulated with keys.  Tweaked redrawing of the measuring line to be a
483  smidgen more efficient.  Fixed the blob and ring size which were one
484  pixel too small on Windows.
485
486* aven: Added "System Information:" section to the "About" dialog to hold
487  information useful when reporting bugs.  Currently it contains the wxWindows
488  version, OS version, and colour depth information.
489
490* aven: Changed the "About" dialog's "Close" button to be "OK" for consistency
491  with pretty much every other application.
492
493* aven: Added "File->Export as..." which integrates cad3d's functionality
494  within aven.
495
496* aven: Updated a few icons.
497
498* cad3d: Added SVG export support from John Pybus
499
500* (Unix version): Fixed to allow compilation with GCC 3.4
501
502* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to using innosetup 4 for the installer
503  (we were using innosetup 2).  This results in a much smaller download
504  and the installer now translates itself into the currently set language.
505  The installer will no longer work on Windows NT 3.51, but I seriously
506  doubt anyone is still using that...
507
508* Updates to German translation.
509
510Changes in 1.0.31:
511
512* (MS Windows version): Fixed problems with the new printing code by building
513  with a newer version of wxWindows (2.5.2 instead of 2.4.1).
514
515* aven: Fixed grid menu item so that it always correctly reflects whether the
516  grid is enabled or not.
517
518* aven: Minor improvements to appearance of a few toolbar icons.
519
520* Updates to Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, Slovak, and Spanish
521  translations.
522
523* cavern: Fixed Romanian message which was appearing in English .err files.
524
525Changes in 1.0.30:
526
527* aven: Added printing directly from Aven!
528
529* aven: Fixed memory leak when showing the "About" dialog.
530
531* (MacOS X version): Now installable from a disk image package.
532
533* cavern: Equates are no longer considered when deciding which stations are
534  flagged as surface and underground.
535
536* Romanian translation mostly completed.
537
538* (Unix version): Debian: Minor packaging tweaks.
539
540Changes in 1.0.29:
541
542* cad3d: Fixed problem with DXF files which stopped them loading with some
543  drawing packages (introduced in 1.0.27).
544
545* aven: Changed File->Exit to File->Quit.
546
547* Removed some unused messages from the message files.
548
549* (Unix version): Fixed SRPMs to build on RedHat 9 and Fedora Core 1 (patch
550  from John Pybus).
551
552* Romanian translation started.
553
554* (Unix version): Debian: Fixed new lintian warnings about missing quotes in
555  menu files.
556
557Changes in 1.0.28:
558
559* Fixed 3d file reading code to fix incorrect unpacking of compressed station
560  names in a rare case.  Also checked other rare cases work correctly.
561
562Changes in 1.0.27:
563
564* cad3d: DXF output now puts surface legs, stations, and labels in separate
565  layers.
566
567* (Unix version): distribute desc-svxedit.txt.
568
569Changes in 1.0.26:
570
571* cavern: Fixed interleaved topofil data style - the length was always being
572  calculated as zero.
573
574* (Unix version): aven: "All Files" now shows files without extensions too.
575
576* aven: added Ctrl+Q as shortcut for File->Exit.
577
578* aven: depth colouring now uses a proper colour gradient.
579
580* (MacOS X version): aven: the keyboard and mouse now work!  It turns out that
581  we must apply resources *after* installing.
582
583* (MacOS X version): aven: now works when run from the MacOS X Finder.
584
585* (MacOS X version): look for message files and other resources relative to the
586  binaries so that the user can install Survex from a disk image in the location
587  of their choice.
588
589* (MacOS X version): fixed not to try to build aven if wxWindows isn't
590  installed.
591
592* cad3d: fixed -e and -r options to not crash (the long versions have always
593  worked).
594
595* extend: fixed to initialise an internal structure - failing to do so was
596  probably causing crashes on some platforms.
597
598* Fixed standard graphics for "Note", "Warning", etc in the PostScript manual.
599
600* Documentation updated.
601
602* (Unix version): fixed svxedit man page which previously contained xcaverot
603  documentation!
604
605* test suite: check that cavern doesn't report "nan" or "NaN" for any values.
606
607* (Unix version): fixed configure --enable-defaultlang=XX to work.
608
609* (Unix version): fixed configure code to turn on lots of GCC warnings and fixed
610  most of them.
611
612* (MS Windows version): assorted tweaks to allow building with MS Visual C/C++.
613
614Changes in 1.0.25:
615
616* (MacOS X version): hopefully fixed building of aven.
617
618* (Unix version): updated config.guess and config.sub so should build out of
619  the box on more Unix platforms.
620
621* (Unix version): Debian: added missing Build-Depends on xlibs-dev.
622
623* (Unix version): RPMs: give up supplying binary RPMs due to apparently
624  insurmountable technical problems.
625
626Changes in 1.0.24:
627
628* cavern: fixed LEVEL (broken since around 1.0.8) and added test case.
629
630* cavern: corrected handling of declination in Compass DAT files and added test
631  case; also added tests for other aspects of Compass DAT file reading.
632
633* printps/printpcl: fixed blank page detection in some obscure cases.
634
635* Documentation: started manual section on working with Compass data files.
636
637* (Unix version): fixed compilation problems with aven and getopt.h on MacOS X
638  (and probably some other Unix versions).
639
640* (Unix version): Debian package now Build-Depends on gcc-3.2 and g++-3.2.
641
642Changes in 1.0.23:
643
644* Documentation: include 3d v3 file format description on MS Windows, MS DOS,
645  and RISC OS too; include PNG graphics for manual on MS Windows; minor updates
646  to manual.
647
648* Prefer wxWindows 2.4 if it's available.
649
650* (MacOS X version): detect MacOS X and look for MacOS X build of wxWindows;
651  automatically add resource fork to aven binary.
652
653* Disabled experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - it isn't currently
654  working and makes the printer drivers unusable on Chinese versions of MS
655  Windows.
656
657* (Unix version): tweaked debian packaging.
658
659* cavern: Handling of "*:" at start of file wasn't fully fixed in 1.0.19.
660
661Changes in 1.0.22:
662
663* aven: Fixed handling of extended elevations (and other flat surveys) -
664  they are meant to be "locked flat" but this wasn't fully working before.
665
666* Documentation: 3d v3 file format description: fixed error in description of
667  codes 0x01-0x0e; include it in binary packages (not only with the source
668  code).
669
670Changes in 1.0.21:
671
672* cavern: when reading Compass DAT files, we now processes compass and clino
673  backsights, and recognise the "X" flag which indicates a leg should be
674  entirely ignored.  And we now report correct line number with errors in
675  Compass .MAK files.
676
677* cavern: if "*infer plumbs on", don't infer a plumb if the clino is
678  +/- 90 degrees, but the backclino isn't (and vice versa).
679
680* cavern: fixed 3dx output so it actually works with Chasm once more.
681
682* cavern: don't allocate extra space needed for producing 3dx output for
683  Chasm unless we're actually producing that output - saves about 8 bytes
684  per station.
685
686* cavern: removed slightly too keen sanity check which could misfire in very
687  unusual circumstances.
688
689* (MS Windows version): all .ico files except 3d.ico have been missing since
690  1.0.17 (or maybe 1.0.16) - fixed.  You wouldn't notice this if you installed
691  over an previous version.
692
693Changes in 1.0.20:
694
695* aven: update display when "Metric" or "Degrees" is toggled.
696
697* cavern: fixed handling of compass and clino corrections in Compass survey
698  data - these were interpreted as radians rather than degrees so the
699  correction was about 57 times too large!)
700
701* Improved handling of Compass PLT files - if the survey name is empty, don't
702  insert a survey separator character.
703
704* Documentation: fixed incorrect markup which resulted in a bogus footnote.
705
706Changes in 1.0.19:
707
708* cavern: you can now process Compass format survey data (.DAT and .MAK files) -
709  these can even be linked into a Survex dataset with "*include fulford.dat" or
710  "*include lech.mak" to allow processing of mixed datasets.
711
712* cavern: major speedup (up to 60%) when reading in survey data containing
713  a lot of stations in the same survey hierarchy level (which is how Compass
714  files are handled).
715
716* cavern: don't warn about a compass reading on a plumbed leg if the
717  plumb was inferred and the compass reading is zero.
718
719* cavern: reduced memory usage in code which reads a survey station name.
720
721* cavern: reported CPU time would go negative if cavern ran for more than
722  about 36 minutes (highly unlikely but not impossible on a slow machine
723  with a large, highly interconnect survey) - fixed.
724
725* cavern: avoid unnecessary work when --percentage isn't specified.
726
727* cavern: Writing "*:" at the start of a .svx file would crash cavern - fixed
728  and added test case.  This is an error anyway, but it shouldn't cause a
729  crash.
730
731* Don't distribute unused toolbar icons.
732
733* Documentation: minor updates.
734
735Changes in 1.0.18:
736
737* (Unix version): Fixed "Process" action on .svx files.
738
739* (Unix version): File associations: if svxedit isn't installed, run gnome-edit
740  instead.
741
742* (Unix version): In Debian packages, now include file associations and file
743  icons in the survex package rather than survex-aven.
744
745* (Unix version): File associations were missing from RPM packages; moved
746  aven and svxedit man pages to their respective subpackages; moved aven icons
747  to the aven subpackage.
748
749* Documentation: added details of the 3d file format (version 3).
750
751* Updated TODO list.
752
753Changes in 1.0.17:
754
755* (MS Windows version): Fixed "Open in SvxEdit" to work (and if tcl isn't
756  install this action now falls back to using notepad).  SvxEdit now has
757  its own icon.
758
759* (Unix version): Install mime types, icons, and file associations for Gnome.
760  Note: at present GMC doesn't seem to notice new files being created (e.g.
761  Process on a .svx file creates .3d and .err files) - you have to manually
762  refresh the view.
763
764* Minor update to manual.
765
766Changes in 1.0.16:
767
768* (MS Windows version): Really fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
769  programs from finding the message files.
770
771* (MS Windows version): Remove any existing "Open" file association for .svx
772  files.
773
774Changes in 1.0.15:
775
776* (MS Windows version): Fixed bug introduced in 1.0.14 which often stops
777  programs from finding the message files.
778
779* (MS Windows version): "Open in Notepad" is now the double-click action
780  for .svx files once again, "Open in SvxEdit" is an action in the menu
781  obtained with the right mouse button.
782
783Changes in 1.0.14:
784
785* svxedit: This is a Survex data entry editor from the therion team.  It needs
786  tcl and wish installed - for MS Windows an installer is available for free
787  from Activeware.
788
789* Improved handling of Compass PLT files and CMAP xyz files - no longer change
790  dots to spaces in survey and station names - instead use a space as the
791  separator between survey name and station name.
792
793* aven: when picking non-overlapping labels, show a slight preference to shorter
794  labels with the aim of displaying more labels.
795
796* aven: fixed hard to notice problem which could cause the cave to appear
797  tilted sideways after a lot of manipulation.
798
799* cavern: Modest speed improvement (0.5% for sample dataset).
800
801* cavern: fixed a rarely sighted bug which caused erroneous error about some
802  stations not being attached to a fixed point.
803
804* cavern: fixed clino readings and DIRECTION to work in interleaved data.
805
806* cavern: improved error reporting when an invalid value is given for a
807  DIRECTION reading.
808
809* cavern: fixed "singular matrix" error when very low SDs were specified.
810
811* print*: if the --raw is used, the survey can now use the space this would
812  have taken up.
813
814* Reading of ASCII 3d files now copes with MSDOS/MS Windows line endings
815  once again.  Added regression test for this.
816
817* (MS Windows version): Programs run from the command line now find message
818  files without SURVEXHOME needing to be set.
819
820* Updated documentation.
821
822Changes in 1.0.13:
823
824* aven: Fixed bug which caused the occasional spurious leg to be shown
825  connecting arbitrary stations.
826
827* extend: try to extend along a survey, and make breaks where other surveys
828  join.
829
830* cavern: Number reading code reworked to allow repeat readings to be
831  supported, but the actual repeat reading code is currently disabled,
832  and everything should work exactly as before.
833
834* Experimental support for Chinese (LANG=zh) - only a few messages are
835  currently translated.
836
837Changes in 1.0.12:
838
839* diffpos: fixed to work on 64bit architectures.
840
841* sorterr: fixed to work with more than 1024 traverses.
842
843* Fixed handling of iso-8859-2 character set and MS Windows code page 1250
844  (both cover Eastern European languages).
845
846* (MS Windows version): install file associations for Compass .plt and .plf
847  files and for CMAP .xyz files.  Also install the file icon for .plt and
848  .plf files in case Compass isn't installed (thanks to Larry Fish for
849  permission to include the icon).
850
851* (Unix version): running an installed program with an explicit path works
852  again.
853
854* (Unix version): xcaverot: automatically switch on PDA mode if the screen is
855  less than 640 pixels wide or less than 480 pixels high.
856
857* (Unix version): minor portability improvements.
858
859* Updates to Portuguese translation - all translations are now up-to-date.
860
861Changes in 1.0.11:
862
863* aven: improvements in 1.0.10 to the file type selector only work properly
864  on MS Windows, and with wxGtk >= 2.3 on Unix (the latest stable release is
865  2.2.9 where this doesn't work).  Fixed to work as well as possible on 2.2.9,
866  and as intended on 2.3.
867
868* aven: fixed so that loading PLT files works regardless of the current locale
869  (previously it would fail for locales where the decimal character wasn't
870  '.').
871
872* aven: key actions during autorotation no longer temporarily pause
873  autorotation.
874
875* aven: switching to plan or elevation while rotating is now smooth.
876
877* aven: removed undocumented and confusing "free rotation mode".
878
879* (MS Windows version): aven: focus now set correctly after loading a file by
880  double-clicking or from the command line.
881
882* cad3d: write dummy passage dimensions to .plt files to avoid Compass bug.
883
884* printwin/printps: now support coloured printouts.
885
886* print*: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
887
888* extend: fixed to work correctly with PLT files.
889
890* Updates to Italian translation.
891
892* Minor documentation updates.
893
894Changes in 1.0.10:
895
896* (MS Windows version): aven: fixed assert failure upon turning on station
897  names.
898
899* aven: only add a file to the list of recently used files if it was opened
900  successfully.
901
902* aven: recognise ".plf" as a Compass PLT file too; and on Unix list "*.PLT",
903  "*.PLF", "*.XYZ", and "*.3D" as well as the lowercase versions to help people
904  who transfer files from MSDOS/MS Windows.
905
906* cavern: fixed bogus warning triggered by "*begin abc.def" (I'm not sure
907  that this should be valid, but the warning given wasn't appropriate).
908
909* Fixed scaling problem when reading PLT file (feet->metres conversion
910  factor was being applied backwards!)
911
912* Fixed potential problem when reading or writing a 3d file which couldn't
913  be opened.
914
915* Translate dots to spaces in survey names in Compass PLT files.
916
917* Better handling of PLT files which have a D command before any M command.
918
919* Updates to German and Italian translations.
920
921Changes in 1.0.9:
922
923* aven: Fixed jerky start when auto-rotation begins.
924
925* cavern: Fixed Direction reading - bug previously made it unusable.
926
927* (MS Windows version): cad3d: fixed broken PLT output (had a double CR at the
928  end of each line).
929
930* (Unix version): RPMs now have the docs in /usr/share/doc and the man pages
931  in /usr/share/man to conform with the FHS (and where RedHat packages put
932  them).
933
934* Updates to French, Spanish, Catalan, and Slovak translations.
935
936Changes in 1.0.8:
937
938* Slovak translation added; updated German, Catalan, and Spanish translations.
939
940* aven: reduced memory usage by around 25% and increased speed and
941  responsiveness.
942
943* aven: rate of rotation and switching between plan and elevation now adjusted
944  to the speed of redraw, so aven behaves in a similar way independent of the
945  speed of the computer or size of the survey.
946
947* aven: provide list of most recently loaded files (preserved between runs of
948  the program).
949
950* aven: settings for "Metric" and "Degrees" are preserved between runs.
951
952* aven: moved some menu items from "View" to "Controls" as they probably
953  belong there and the "View" menu was getting out of hand.
954
955* aven: cursor keys now translate cave in the same way the mouse does (i.e. now
956  work as in caverot and xcaverot).
957
958* aven: eliminated the "twinkling label" effect when dragging the cave with the
959  right mouse button.
960
961* aven: the measuring line moves much more smoothly now: the mouse cursor now
962  snaps to the nearest station, rather than just a near station; and when the
963  line moves, we now only redraw the affected area of the window.
964
965* aven: resolved annoying limit on zooming in on large surveys.  This was a
966  crude way of preventing random lines due to overflow in the windowing system.
967  Aven now clips lines itself at high zoom levels, and limits zoom in to
968  approximately 1mm/pixel.
969
970* aven: zoom in/out with keyboard wasn't subject to any limits - now restricted
971  to sane values as with zoom in/out with the mouse.
972
973* print*: added --raw switch to turn of info box, scale bar, and page footer.
974  This can be useful if you want to import the output into another application.
975
976* print*: improved output when --no-border is used.
977
978* printpcl/printdm: Added new .ini setting "font_bitmap" which allows the user
979  to choose between alternative fonts.  Current we supply "default" and "bold".
980
981* printps/printhpgl: Fixed --skip-blanks which would incorrectly skip non-blank
982  pages on rare occasions.
983
984* cavern: added support for BackCompass and BackClino.
985
986* cavern: implemented "*units clino percent".
987
988* cavern: added "*infer exports on".  Any stations seen while this is on will
989  have the necessary *export-s inferred when accessed from outside their
990  own survey.  This allows linking a survey which uses *export to one which
991  doesn't.  It's also useful for a maze cave where so many stations can
992  be linked to that listing them explicitly isn't desirable.
993
994* cavern: N-S, E-W, and vertical ranges now only count stations which are in
995  underground surveys.
996
997* cavern: *infer plumbs wasn't inferring -90 to be DOWN - fixed.
998
999* cavern: *infer was giving an internal error if the argument was unknown -
1000  now it gives the correct error message.
1001
1002* cavern: fixed handling of omitted clino readings when OMIT is *set to be
1003  different from MINUS and PLUS (new test omitclino).
1004
1005* cavern: fixed a bogus warning for any station which was only used in a line
1006  of data which was rejected because of an error.
1007
1008* cavern: added error if the *units factor is zero (e.g. "*units tape 0 feet").
1009
1010* cavern: removed the ill-thought-out and never implemented LENGTHOUTPUT
1011  and ANGLEOUTPUT quantities.
1012
1013* cavern: resolved mismatch between bcra5.svx and the default SDs, and the
1014  odd values in bcra3.svx.  We are now interpreting the BCRA limits as 2
1015  standard deviations (previously bcra5.svx used 3 sds, bcra3 used 3.33 sds for
1016  tape and position, and .75 sds for compass and clino, and cavern used 1 sd
1017  by default).
1018
1019* ChangeLog now only includes entries since the previous release (the full file
1020  is 220K or so, and of interest to very few people).  MSDOS and MS Windows
1021  versions now comfortably fit on a 1.44M floppy once again.
1022
1023* Test suite now checks that all programs will run successfully with "--help"
1024  and with "--version".  This should avoid problems such as that which broke
1025  the printer drivers in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
1026
1027* (Unix version): uninstalled binaries now use the path they are run with to
1028  find support files, which means SURVEXHOME is no longer required, and has
1029  been removed.
1030
1031Changes in 1.0.7:
1032
1033* print*: halted with a failed assertion in 1.0.4-1.0.6.
1034
1035Changes in 1.0.6:
1036
1037* aven: "Reverse Controls" now works as in xcaverot and caverot.
1038
1039* aven: free rotation mode (engage by pressing control while left dragging,
1040  exit with Delete) improved.
1041
1042* aven: using File->Open when a file was already loaded caused a crash
1043  if a station was "grey highlighted" in the survey tree - fixed.
1044
1045* aven: added hourglass for "find" operation.
1046
1047* aven: reenabled loading of files by drag-and-drop (accidentally disabled
1048  in 1.0.4 and 1.0.5).
1049
1050* aven: improved handling of flat surveys (e.g. output of extend, surveys
1051  with no clino information).
1052
1053* aven: surveys with stations but no legs no longer cause the labels and
1054  crosses buttons to behave oddly.
1055
1056* aven: removed quite a bit of unused and superfluous code.
1057
1058* Spell-checked documentation.
1059
1060Changes in 1.0.5:
1061
1062* Fixed bug in img_open_survey() which could cause a crash if you tried to
1063  open an unrecognised file (i.e. not .3d, .pos, .plt, or .xyz format).
1064
1065* North and East were the wrong way round when reading in .plt files.
1066
1067* cad3d: Improved .plt file output a little - there's probably enough file
1068  structure for Compass to read them now.
1069
1070* Documentation updates.
1071
1072Changes in 1.0.4:
1073
1074* extend: previously only kept one name for an equated group of stations in the
1075  extended .3d file; now keeps all the names.
1076
1077* cad3d: if an output filename is given, use its extension to pick the default
1078  output format.
1079
1080* aven: movement with keyboard is now accelerated by Shift as in caverot.
1081
1082* print*: --no-borders fixed to work as documented; --no-cutlines added to
1083  turn off the dashed lines where pages join on multi-page printouts.
1084
1085* aven: tracked down two uninitialised variables which seems to fix the
1086  failure to load a survey on startup which some people have been experiencing
1087  on Microsoft Windows.
1088
1089* aven: code cleaned up - should improve performance a little.
1090
1091* img routines: img_rewind() now returns a value indicating success/failure.
1092
1093* Improvements to .plt file reading, notably that distances in the file are
1094  now interpreted as being in feet rather than metres.  Also .plt files should
1095  now be recognised even with a different extension, and we cope with an odd
1096  special case better.
1097
1098* Added support for reading CMAP XYZ files.  There are two variants of these
1099  - the "shot" format is fully implemented, the "station" format currently
1100  just reads the station names and positions - the legs are ignored (sadly
1101  the sample files I have do not match the format specification).
1102
1103* (MacOS X version): aven: aven now builds on MacOS X - we just need to sort
1104  out packaging now...
1105
1106* (MSDOS version): upgraded graphics library used to Allegro 4.0.1.
1107
1108* Documentation updates.
1109
1110Changes in 1.0.3:
1111
1112* aven: you can now select distances to be displayed in feet (or miles when
1113  you zoom right out) instead of metres, and angles to be in grads instead
1114  of degrees.
1115
1116* aven: show altitude of mouse pointer when in elevation view.
1117
1118* cad3d: fixed bug which caused --plt to crash on some platforms.
1119
1120* print*: added "Printing to `XXX'..." message to say where output is being
1121  written.
1122
1123* Updated French translation; minor updates to other translations (mostly
1124  sorting out clashing menu shortcuts in aven).
1125
1126* (Unix version): assorted portability tweaks.
1127
1128Changes in 1.0.2:
1129
1130* printdm/printpcl/printwin: take notice of font_size_labels setting in
1131  print.ini etc.
1132
1133* cavern: Topofil can now be used with DIVING and CYLPOLAR styles; TOPOFIL
1134  style is now synonymous with NORMAL.
1135
1136* cavern: *INFER EQUATES and *DATA TOPOFIL now work together correctly.
1137
1138* cavern: *FIX with 3 standard deviations but no covariances now works.
1139
1140* (MacOS X version): command line programs now build.  We're working on Aven.
1141
1142* Updates to the Catalan and Spanish translations.
1143
1144* xcaverot: documented environmental variables XCAVEROT_INDICATOR_RADIUS and
1145  XCAVEROT_FONTNAME.
1146
1147* cad3d: added --plt option to produce crude approximation to Compass .plt
1148  files - should be good enough for reading into Carto.
1149
1150* img library enhanced to allow Compass .plt files to be read as if they were
1151  .3d files.
1152
1153Changes in 1.0.1:
1154
1155* (MS Windows version): printwin: fixed sizes of cross and page alignment
1156  ticks.
1157
1158* Updates to the Portuguese and Italian translations.
1159
1160Changes in 1.0.0:
1161
1162* Fixed --survey option supported by many programs which was broken in 0.99.
1163
1164* aven: altered colours of "fixed points" and "entrances" buttons to match
1165  the coloured blobs used to indicate them.
1166
1167* (MS Windows version): aven: changed current point highlighting in the
1168  survey tree to use a light grey background rather than bold (bold causes
1169  the text to "wriggle" as the highlight runs up or down).
1170
1171* (MS Windows version): file icons now have transparent backgrounds.
1172
1173* survex: removed conversion wrapper - you should use "cavern file.svx"
1174  instead of "survex file.svx".
1175
1176* (Unix version): GCC 2.95 sometimes fails with an internal error when trying
1177  to compile gfxcore.cc - if it does, the Makefile will now try recompiling
1178  with a lower optimisation level.
1179
1180* (Unix version): when doing an "in directory" build from source, the HTML
1181  manual is now installed in its own subdirectory as when doing a non
1182  "in directory" build.
1183
1184* German translation now completely up-to-date.
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