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