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  • aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting 3d file.
  • (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what language to use for messages.

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