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